Antibullying week at Charlton

Next week we will be promoting Antibullying week at Charlton. As a school we are proud to work with The Diana Award and are an Antibullying Ambassador School. The Diana Award engages young people, parents and teachers to change the attitudes, behaviour and culture of bullying by building skills and confidence to address different situations, both online and offline. As part of antibullying week we are running a variety of activities with students:

Self-Advocacy task

A house activity for students to complete on Doddle (also attached). This activity aims to develop self-advocacy skills, it is recommended that, if possible, students complete this with a trusted adult. Once complete students should hand in their work to their form tutor and will receive a house point for taking part.

Odd Socks Day: Monday 14th November

Odd Socks Day is promoted through the Anti-Bullying Alliance. It’s an opportunity to encourage people to express themselves and celebrate their individuality and what makes us all unique! There is no pressure to wear the latest fashion or to buy expensive costumes. All you have to do to take part is wear odd socks to your school, at work or at home, it couldn’t be simpler! Odd Socks day will take place on the first day of Anti-Bullying Week each year to help raise awareness of bullying.

Antibullying Ambassadors

We will be working with a group of Antibullying ambassadors in school to create a student friendly version of the Anti-Bullying Policy to make this more accessible to students. The Anti-Bullying ambassadors will be sharing their work with all students as part of their student leadership role.

Curriculum Enhancement Days

In addition to the activities next week students have recently taken part in the Big Antibullying assembly and have received presentations during curriculum enhancement days to build skills and confidence to address and report situations, including the promotion of our anonymous reporting tool ‘tootoot’.

Please see the attached Anti-Bullying parents guide which will also be available on the school website under ‘help guides for families’. If you haven’t already, please do have a look at this section of the website which contains some very useful information for parents and carers: https://www.charlton.uk.com/help-guides-for-families.

Please encourage your child to take part in the activities on offer and wear their ‘odd socks’ on Monday to raise awareness of bullying.

Many thanks

Mrs A Vickers

Assistant Vice Principal - Personal Development, Culture and Ethos