Bullying makes life a misery for victims around the country. In her diary, Emma Smith, a 13-year-old pupil at Elgar Technology College, describes just some of the incidents that have caused her to dread school.

"My first few weeks were fine because no one knew anyone, and we were all getting to know each other.

"Then I started getting hassled from day to day. One day I was in Science and two girls tried to actually push me out of a first floor window. We had a supply teacher that day and all he said to them was for them to put me down.

"I was moved into J4 and I had a member of staff sit by me in each of my lessons. Unfortunately, this did not help and people started taking my equipment and throwing it around.

"I had no friends to stick up for me. I think I have no friends because when I get bullied they think the bullies will start on them."

"I started attending what they call a unit in the school. This is a place where people who are being bullied can go and hang out at lunchtimes. One day it was locked so I stood in the playground on my own.

"A group of girls came up to me and asked me if I wanted a fight. One girl pushed me and slapped me around the face. She got excluded.

"In science my equipment was taken, I was stabbed, spat on and called names. In history a girl pushed me to the floor where I hit my leg on the fire extinguisher.

"Only last week I was pushed over in the library and hurt my arm and this Monday just gone I got hit around the face with a bag.

"In maths my bag got thrown out of the window by a girl. After I got it back two boys had put ink all over my book, and, at the end of the day, boys threw stones at my father's car."

n Has your child been a victim of bullies? How did he or she cope? Call education reporter Dan Kendrick on 01905 742253 or email dk@thisisworcester.

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Elgar Technology College pupil Emma Smith recorded her daily traumas at the hands of bullies in an emotional diary.