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What happened in your area in 2011

Schools around the country supported Anti-Bullying Week 2011 with a range of activities

All Hallows RC Business, Enterprise and Sports College, Salford
Conflict Resolution sessions for Year 8 during Anti-Bullying Week
The College is working with the British Red Cross on creating sessions with Year 8’s to look at making the right choices and decisions and why it is important to resolve issues and dissolve conflict.

Amery Hill School, Alton, Hants
The School have various activities organised for Anti-Bullying Week:
Assemblies will give anti-bullying messages
Tutor group activity: Creating a communication charter
Tutor group activity: Displaying post-its messages about verbal bullying on the Anti-Bullying Art graffiti board
The Angry Society will hold a debate about bullying
The School is carrying out an anti-bullying survey
The School Librarian will provide a list of help books about bullying
There will be a poster competition for Years 7/8
Plus the School will have Anti-bullying bracelets on sale and will distribute Anti-bullying leaflets

Bath and North East Somerset council
Children and Young People’s Anti-Bullying Equalities Group
Wednesday 16th November - The group will meet with council officers to discuss the nature of bullying prevalent in local schools and to map out a strategy that schools can adopt. Crucial to this are the involvement of children and young people in devising anti-bullying procedures in each school and connecting up with the Council’s Anti-Bullying Strategy Group. This latter group has been meeting for some time but has not yet included the perspective of children and young people. Target audience: KS2, KS3, KS4

Bradley Stoke Community School, South Gloucestershire, nr. Bristol
Anti-Bullying Student Voice conference
Thursday 17th November
BSCS have invited all South Glos secondary schools and some from Bristol to attend this student event. Some of the schools will be showcasing their approaches to dealing with bullying. South West Grid for Learning will also be presenting on social networking and Beatbullying will be presenting to the conference regarding their Cybermentor programme.

Holy Family Primary School, Sale Moor, Cheshire
The School have organised a poetry competition for primary school children in the Sale, Cheshire area based on this year's Anti-Bullying Week theme 'Stop and Think, words can hurt'. The competition is sponsored by a local bookshop, Urmston Books, and the winner will get a £10 book voucher and the school will get a £100 book voucher. The winning poem and the runners up will be displayed in Sale Library during Anti-Bullying Week.

Humberston Park School, Humberston, North East Lincolnshire
The School have arranged activities for KS3 and 4. The Student Council have made posters and have collected booklets for all classes to discuss. The Community Police are visiting the School and will give a talk.

Oasis Academy Immingham, North East Lincolnshire
During Anti-Bullying Week, all year groups Y7 –Y13 will be involved in the various activities the Academy has planned: creating an anti-bullying student council and an email for students to send in their concerns about bullying; delivering assemblies and tutor lessons on anti-bullying; training students in restorative justice and to become mediators.

Shaftesbury Park School, Battersea
A range of activities have been organised for Foundation, KS1 KS2.
7th/16th/17th November - Challenging homophobia taster workshop.
7th November - Performance about dealing with bullying.
15th-18th November - SEAL based activities to support anti-bullying week. School focus cyber bullying.
16th November - Staff Training to meet OFSTED criteria to eradicate prejudice-motivated bullying.
17th November - Pupil assembly with Shaftesbury Safer Neighbourhood Team.

St. Joseph’s, Crayford, Kent
The School are holding an Anti-Bullying Assembly for KS2 pupils on Monday 14th November.

St. Joseph’s RC Primary, Loftus, Saltburn
From 14th – 17th November, the School has planned arrange of activities: ‘own clothes’ Blue Monday; the School Council and the anti-bullying Co-ordinator will run a whole school assembly; an Anti-bullying Lunch.

Weelsby Primary, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire
The School are holding a Friendship week/e-safety week for Anti-Bullying Week for all their pupils age 3-11. Activities include: Assembly - Monday. E-safety lessons in each class. Multi activity friendship day.

Willow Bank Children’s Hospital School, Leicester
Throughout Anti-Bullying Week, the School held a range of activities for Key Stages 3 and 4 including daily assemblies using films and film clips. Assemblies, taken by a different member of staff each day, showed short video clips mainly from YouTube. The film watched on Wednesday was “Skin”. Also a new set of anti-bullying posters was put up in school, including some in new areas. Staff were reminded of the School’s anti-bullying policy during a staff meeting.