Anti-Bullying Week Briefing Pack 2011

Staff Activity: supporting staff to tackle verbal bullying
Download a pdf of the worksheet.

Resources created by ABA members specifically for Anti-Bullying Week 2011

ABA and Shrill Productions - Stand Tall: A Rock Musical
The Anti-Bullying Alliance is working in partnership with Stand Tall: A Rock Musical to promote the Anti-Bullying Week 2011. Although the national competition is now closed the materials can form the basis of a local competition or other Anti-Bullying Week activity in school, college or a youth club. The powerpoint presentation can be used to support an assembly/lesson/tutor group or youth group session that introduces the theme of Anti-Bullying week 2011 and encourages children and young people to think about and discuss bullying. The presentation includes staff/facilitator notes to guide the general discussion about bullying, and gives enough flexibility to adjust for primary or secondary age children.

NCB has made a chapter of the forthcoming book Everybody Here Will Be Bullied available to download for free.

Beatbullying
Beatbullying has produced a range of assembly plans and lesson plans for Anti-Bullying Week.
ABW Assembly Plan Primary Pts 1 & 2. Theme - What are rights? Exploring the issue of rights, particularly 'I have the right to be safe'. Resources are PDFs and PowerPoint presentation slides
ABW Assembly Plan Primary Pt 1 [PowerPoint presentation 188Kb]
ABW Assembly Plan Primary Pt 2 [PowerPoint presentation 215Kb]
Assembly Plan Primary Pt 1-1 [Pdf 102Kb]
Assembly Plan Primary Pt 2-1 [Pdf 98Kb]
ABW Assemby Plan Secondary - Interactive assembly exploring the power of words and positivity. Resources are a Powerpoint presentation and a supporting pdf.
Powerpoint presentation [1.60Mb]
Supporting pdf [Pdf101.14Kb]
Lesson Plan KS1 - Rights and Responsibilities. Aims: 'I can see what is right and what is wrong' [Pdf 382Kb]
Lesson Plan KS1 'I have the right to be safe' [Pdf 449.73Kb]
Supporting resource for KS1 lesson plan:
Frame [Pdf 317.54kb]
Lesson Plan KS2 - Rights and Responsibilities. Aims: 'I understand that I have rights' [Pdf 578.80Kb]
Supporting resources for KS2 lesson plan:
Powerpoint [2.0Mb]
KS2 - rights -Supporting cards [Pdf 800Kb]
Lesson Plan KS2 'I have the right to be safe' [Pdf 606Kb]
Lesson Plan KS3 - Rights and Responsibilities. Aims: 'To consider how it feels to be unsafe and develop empathy' [Pdf 478Kb]
Lesson Plan KS4 - Rights and Responsibilities. Aims: 'To understand what is meant by collective responsibility' [Pdf 564Kb]
Lesson Plan Sixth Form - Question Time style debate to get young people discussing politics and bullying. [Pdf 103Kb]

Changing Faces
For Anti-Bullying Week 2011 Changing Faces have produced some lesson ideas and also have other lesson plans around the subject of appearance related bullying.
This resource is suitable for KS3 and involves role play and group discussion. The lesson plans will help pupils to think about the words they use and say the actions of others that can have a negative impact on pupils with a visible difference.
Anti-Bullying Week 2011: ‘Words can Hurt’ – Lesson plans [Pdf 94.23Kb]
Changing Faces also has a range of other anti-bullying resources for schools including teaching resources for primary and secondary schools and guides for supporting a pupil who is being bullied. For details of these resources visit the website.

Kids Taskforce
A new advert will be launched on 15th November during Anti Bullying Week to raise awareness of the Kids Taskforce safety learning programme for primary schools, which tackles bullying amongst its many issues. The 2 minute promotional film, funded by phone company Nokia to raise awareness of the missdorothy.com personal safety programme for primary schools, can be viewed on the Kids Taskforce website.

Life Chance Ltd
Life Chance is an anti-bullying and e-safety consultancy offering training and advice to schools and multi-agency partners and support to young people. Life Chance has produced new free Anti-Bullying Week resource - Anti-Bullying Policy In Action. This is an interactive experiential exercise for staff training to explore individual roles and how a joined up approach to tackling bullying is most effective. The level is KS3 but can be adapted for KS2.
Anti-Bullying whole school policy in action: a group experiential exercise. [Pdf 119Kb]

MAX Conflict Management
Free Anti-Bullying Seminar
Available during Anti-Bullying Week and throughout the year. Seminar delivered free of charge by a MAX representative (possible diesel expenses dependent on location of organising body) Will include these topics - General anti-bullying, cyberbullying, homophobic bullying, bullying related to SEN and disability, bullying related to gender and trans-gender, bullying related to race, culture, religion - one or more can be focused on as required. Delivered at KS2 upwards from 7 years old. 1 seminar delivered free per organisation (excluding any expenses as above). Tel: 0844 8700 629

MAX Conflict Management
Have also produced a new Top Tips on strategies against Verbal Bullying for Anti-Bullying Week. Download Top Tips on Verbal Abuse [Pdf 1Mb]

NSPCC
The NSPCC’s Education Advisor Julie Mortimer has produced an anti-bullying assembly for primary schools for Anti-Bullying Week 2011.
NSPCC Antibullying Assembly Primary School for ABW 2011 [Pdf 31Kb]
The NSPCC have also created an anti-bullying page with assembly and lesson plans that aim to help you plan anti-bullying week activities in your school, with a lesson plan for each day.
First steps (lesson plan 1) (PDF, 1MB)
Put yourself in their shoes (lesson plan 2) (PDF, 139KB)
Walk tall and proud (lesson plan 3) (PDF, 132KB)
Safe steps (lesson plan 4) (PDF, 116KB)
Take a leap forward (lesson plan 5) (PDF, 280KB)
Transition (key stage 1, 2 and 3) (PDF, 64KB)
Along with these resources, the NSPCC have also made two anti-bullying checklists available:
School anti-bullying checklist (PDF, 48KB)
This checklist aims to help you ensure that your curriculum and school environment promote respect towards others, celebrating diversity and making your school a safe environment for all pupils.
School anti-bullying policy checklist (PDF, 34KB)
The policy checklist will ensure your anti-bullying policy incorporates all the required elements and that a rigorous review and revision process is in place.

Spotlight Theatre Company
Spotlights have produced a classroom based drama activity for KS2 for Anti-Bullying Week called Think Tank.
Think Tank powerpoint [45Kb]
Notes [Pdf 121Kb]

Stonewall
Challenging homophobic language in schools
Stonewall have produced an education guide for schools on challenging homophobic language.

Other resources that may be useful

Caught in the Act Ltd
Asking for it/Good2Talk/Slap Happy
Three drama-based workshops for different age groups for KS 1-3. £750.00 per day of up to three performances. Workshops can be for groups of up to 60 or used as an assembly type presentation. Contact/Booking details: Jenny Dee 01608 659555  jenny@caughtintheact.co.uk

FILMCLUB
The education charity FILMCLUB - which helps schools set up and run clubs where children watch, discuss and review a broad range of films - has compiled two 'Anti-Bullying' film seasons (one for primary and one secondary), accompanied by guides and discussion points, which will be available to member schools for Anti-Bullying week on November 14th. For free access to these schools can sign up now via the FILMCLUB website. FILMCLUB’s ‘Beat Bullying’ Season is as follows:
Words Can Hurt: Anti-Bullying Season 2011 (Secondary)
1. Lord of The Flies (1963) (PG)
2. American Teen (2008) (15)
3. Tomboy (2011) (U)
4. The Elephant Man (1980) (PG)
5. The Women (1939) (U)
6. Tormented (2009) (15)
Words Can Hurt: Anti-Bullying Season 2011 (Primary)
1. Cinderella (1950) (U)
2. The Ant Bully (2006) (U)
3. Bridge To Terabithia (2007) (PG)
4. Kes (1969) (PG)
5. Toy Story 3 (2010) (U)
6. La Belle et La Bete (1946) (PG)
For further information about FILMCLUB please contact: beatrix@filmclub.org on 07778 917 322 or visit the website.

In2schools
In2schools.co.uk provides schools with free access to a directory of theatre companies that provide anti-bullying related services including workshops, productions, training and mentoring programmes. In2schools is promoting Anti-Bullying week 2011 to its users. For details of resources visit the in2schools website.

Anti-Bullying assemby plans (2004)
These assembly plans, produced for the first Anti-Bullying Week in 2004, were written by Ann Lovelace, author of several well-known assembly guides. The assemblies were developed from ideas suggested by young people in secondary and special schools and are based on the principle of maximum student participation. The materials include a full script and suggestions for props and resources. You can download all six assembly plans and a set of teachers' notes below.
Teachers' notes [PDF 84KB]
Assembly 1 [PDF 52KB]
Assembly 2 [PDF 52KB]
Assembly 3 [PDF 40KB]
Assembly 4 [PDF 49KB]
Assembly 5 [PDF 37KB]
Assembly 6 [PDF 40KB]

Audit Questionaire
This ABA resource is designed to help schools (and local authorities) survey, report and make informed responses to bullying. It was developed by Peter Smith and the ABA Research team at Goldsmith’s College, London in 2007 and updated in 2010.
ABA audit questionnaire children and young people (Key Stage 2) [Word 2.7MB]
Accompanying guidance notes (Key Stage2) [Word 662KB]
ABA audit questionnaire for children and young people (Key Stage 3 and 4) [Word 1.1MB]
ABA audit questionnaire for parents & carers [Word 911KB]
Accompanying guidance notes (Key Stage 3/4 and parents/carers) [Word 663KB]
The following tools are designed for use with children and young people with special educational needs.
What do you think about bullying? Mencap questionnaire [PDF 197KB ]
Mencap questionnaire administrator notes [ Word 69KB]
Case Study: Somerset Total Communication Resource [ PDF 629KB]
Case Study: Somerset Total Communication Questionnaire [Word 114KB]

Stonewall
Stonewall have a range of information and classroom resources for primary and secondary school teachers on tackling homophobic language in school.

Anti-bullying videos and schools programmes
A variety of programmes available to watch or download, from the Teachers TV website
Teachers TV anti-bullying resources

Wayland
Educational publisher, Wayland, and are promoting awareness of Anti-Bullying Week with a free resource pack. It was written by poet Brian Moses and includes activities, a poem, information on bullying and suggestions for teachers on how to address the topic of bullying in the classroom. The resource is available on the TES Connect website.

Equality and Human Rights Commission
The EHRC have recently launched a free training and education resource - Equal Rights, Equal Respect – which is aimed at Key Stage 3 teachers of all subjects to help teach equality and human rights in schools and essentially to tackle bullying. The online toolkit includes three videos to use in the classroom exploring the consequences of discriminatory behaviour around race, disability and gender, 12 lesson plans and supporting materials, and interactive student activities. The resources also examine discrimination around age, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity and sexual orientation.
Web link to the online toolkit.

Are you talking to me? young people's participation in anti-bullying
This document, written by John Khan, is designed to help professionals effectively involve children and young people in anti-bullying work
Participation guidance [PDF 527KB]

Anti-bullying lesson module [PDF 1.2MB]
This is an excerpt from "Social and Emotional Education", a teaching resource (for use with pupils 12 and over) produced by the Human Values Foundation. The resource, and others from the Foundation, are available from the Human Values Foundation website

Family Lives
Family Lives have produced a leaflet to support children and their families affected by bullying - Bullying: Information and advice to support you and your child [Pdf 735.12Kb]

Make them go away
Lesson plan for bullying involving children and young people with disabilities, for KS2 and KS3