From a survey conducted by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), Teachers from Norfolk speak out “after new figures revealed that more than 60pc of secondary school pupils are being affected by cyber-bullying”.

This high figure is due to electronic devices becoming more easily accessible and more common.

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Members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers have “urged parents to become more aware of ‘cyber-bullying’ that may be affecting their children at school”.

A recent survey of ATL members discovered that “over half know of pupils being bullied through the use of mobile phones or the internet”.

Also found was that 16 percent of the members surveyed were “victims of such bullying themselves”.

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AOL has bought Bebo for an estimated $850 million in cash. The social networking site has an “audience of 7.1 million people”.

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Cyberbullying is increasingly becoming a major problems across schools. With bullies taking their threats out of the school playground and onto the internet.

A campaign was launched by the NSPCC to help tackle this very problem in Wreham.

All the representatives from the county’s secondary schools have “received anti-bullying training”. But this has been taken a step further in “Ysgol Bryn Alyn in Gwersyllt is the first where all staff have undergone anti-bullying training as part of the campaign”.

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A teacher convention held in America “ The Greater Edmonton teachers convention” a leading expert on the subject of “cyberbullying“ pointed out the true problem that faces students online.

He points out the differences between bullying and cyberbullying and how much of threat it can be. He goes to say “what makes cyberbullying so different is the audience can be as large as the Internet itself and the speed with which this can happen is staggering.”

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