This year, Anti-Bullying Week takes place from 11th to the 15th November
Anti-Bullying Week is coordinated by the Anti-Bullying Alliance which is based at the National Children's Bureau. The campaign was started in the early 2000s as a way of focussing the attention of schools on tackling bullying between children and young people.
Change Starts With Us
This year, Anti-Bullying Week has the theme ‘Change Starts With Us’, underlining how everyday acts like listening to young people, having a conversation, thinking about the impact of our words or stopping before hitting ‘like’ on a hurtful social media post, can help to reduce bullying.Aims
The campaign objective is to emphasise that we all have a part to play: Change Starts With Us.The aims of the week are to support schools and other settings to help children and young people, schools staff, parents and other professionals who work with children to understand:
How to get involved
There are many ways you can get involved this year, with different events taking place throughout the week:
‘Change Starts With Us’ is the main overarching theme for this year’s Anti-Bullying Week and was developed with young people, so why not help promote the message on your social media channels.
With the focus on positive change and knowing that we are all part of the solution, the ABA is asking that everyone pledge to change something, no matter how small, and tell them about it. The simplest way of doing this is by sharing or pledging messages from you and your pupils. Your pledges should start with: ‘change starts with ……’ #ChangeStartsWithUs #AntiBullyingWeek. This could be a text-based post, a photo, a video, a GIF or something else!
You can also sign up as a supporter of Anti-Bullying Week where you will receive a certificate and be listed on the website.
E-safety Support and Safeguarding Essentials members can download a selection of bullying resources which include assembly plans, parent guidance and staff training - login or join now!
