Mr. Philip Arneill:

I agree that resilience is important but I suspect that it is not good enough to having a starting point of "That is human nature and things will not change". If we develop skills within children and push a programme on how to become an upstander, which is being a positive agent of change, and then we discover, perhaps, that is not working, that is a different matter. To start or simply write that off from the beginning as part of human nature is not going to be good enough.

Of course, resilience is important. We will be insulted and see things about ourselves that we do not like, so it is a balance between those two things. To get more than 25% of children who witness this kind of behaviour online to even go and tell a trusted adult is definitely a good goal and ambition for us to have not only as teachers but as a society in general.