KS3 Citizenship 1.2b. 2.2b. 2.2c. 2.2d. Personal wellbeing 2.1e. 4c.
KS4 Citizenship 1.2b. 2.2a. 2.2b. Personal wellbeing 2.1e. 4d.
Current KS3 Citizenship 1a 1g 2c PSHE 4g
Current KS4 Citizenship 1a 2b 2c PSHE 4g

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In this activity, students are shown six illustrations. They need to decide what crime has been committed and what the punishment should be. They then think about who is affected by this behaviour and write a phrase showing how one character might feel.

Discussion
Talk about mobile phone bullying. Have any of the students had personal experience of this? What is the effect on the recipient of an offensive text message? What do the students think could be done to dissuade people of their own age from using text messaging as a form of bullying or harassment? Do the students think people have considered how behaviour like this affects others?

Role play
Imagine the head teacher has decided that due to the high number of threatening text messages being received by two or three students in the school, mobile phones will no longer be allowed in school at all. The students are invited to express their views or to ask the head teacher questions. What sorts of points do the students make? You could play the part of the head teacher yourself or ask for volunteers.

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