Anti-bullying Ambassadors reach out into the community

The Anti-bullying Committee talks about equality and diversity to De Havilland Primary School pupils

On the 26th of March 2024, the Anti-Bullying Committee visited De Havilland Primary School to deliver a workshop to Year 5 pupils on respecting Equality and Diversity as well as the negative effect of bullying. Our Anti Bullying committee agreed last term that, as well as tackling bullying in school, we should also reach out into our local community. We decided that this would be effective because we would be educating younger people on the effects of bullying and what bullying really is, which in turn, would hopefully prevent bullying occurring as they got older. I reached out to De Havilland Primary School as I had completed successful work experience there myself and had several meetings with the Headteacher to discuss, plan and organise the perfect workshop.

At De Havilland school, we first asked the Year 5 pupils to read out negative and positive messages and tell the rest of the group how this made them feel. This was so that they could understand the powerful effect words have on people. We later explained what the words ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ meant and how we could implement them in school but also in society. Here is one example of inclusion that we used in order to explain what it means: “Let’s think of everyone here as a large family. In this example, to be inclusive means that everyone has a place at the table. No one is excluded or left out. Everyone has something to offer and do. “

We all thoroughly enjoyed working with the Year 5 pupils and their teachers at De Havilland School

S Okeke Anti-bullying Ambassador Year 11