What's included in the Anti-Bullying Week Whole School Assembly PowerPoint resource and why is it useful?

Anti-Bullying Week Whole School Assembly PowerPoint is a slideshow for the week in November that helps children understand bullying and how to speak up safely. The content includes 12 slides with teacher notes and safeguarding guidance, covering breaking the silence about bullying, celebrating our differences, what bullying is and is not, who is involved, being an upstander, how to get help, three scenarios to discuss, making school a place where everyone belongs and follow-up activities. It links to PSHE learning about respectful relationships.

What Is Bullying?

How bullying is hurtful, done on purpose, repeated and involves an imbalance of power, using STOP (Several Times On Purpose), and how it differs from a falling-out, with questions such as "How is a falling-out different from bullying?"

Be an Upstander

How bystanders can choose to help in a safe way, by telling a trusted adult, supporting and including the person and keeping telling until they get help, asking "Why might a bystander find it difficult to speak up?"

What Would You Do?

Three scenarios to discuss, including someone being left out again and again and hurtful messages in a group chat, plus follow-up ideas such as a kindness challenge, a helping hand of trusted adults and a class pledge.

How do our whole school assemblies work?

Our whole school assemblies are PowerPoint slideshows that follow a similar structure: an introduction, questions to get children thinking, the key points of the topic and reflection time. They're paced to suit a primary school assembly and work best on a whiteboard, projected out to the hall. You can use them:

• as a whole school assembly, from EYFS up to KS2
• as a class assembly
• as a teaching PowerPoint when you want to cover an event or topic in your own classroom

The majority of our assemblies include teacher notes and guidance to support delivery, and because they're pacey, you can adapt them to however long your assembly lasts.

Adapting the Assembly for Your School

Every assembly is editable, so you can add, remove or change slides to suit the needs of your school. We cover religious events, seasonal topics, values such as kindness, friendship and tolerance, science, history, PSHE, music, significant people and sporting events, so you can choose the assemblies that fit your school year.

Supporting Learning at Home

Families can carry the conversation on at home by asking children about their assembly: what they heard, how it made them feel and what they think about it.

You can explore more of our whole school assembly resources here.