Our fantastic Year 10 Wellbeing Leads handed over their leadership roles to Year 9 at their Anti-BullyingWeek assembly today.

The theme for Anti-Bullying Week 2022 is ‘Reach Out’. Teachers and children wanted a theme that empowered them to do something positive to counter the harm and hurt that bullying causes.
The theme of Reach Out aims to encourage children to speak out about bullying. Whether this is speaking out to a trusted adult or reaching out to another person who is being bullied; if we can challenge bullying, we can change it.

Reaching out isn’t just for young people either. Teachers, parents and all other educators have a responsibility to speak out against bullying. By setting positive examples and speaking out against bullying, we can create kinder communities in our schools.

As part of reaching out we have partnered up with a local GDST school, South Hampstead, to ‘reach out’ to them. In PSHE next week Year 8 will be writing online postcards to fellow Year 8s at South Hampstead High School which will include them sharing what helps them feel positive.

During Children’s Mental Health week next year, when the theme is Let’s Connect, we will revisit these postcards and share amongst displays and our school council.

A big thank you to Lily, Samara, Olivia, Natasha, Abigail and Alice for an excellent year and we look forward to Hattie, Annabel, Alyssa and Mehur continuing their great work.

You can read more about the GDST’s initiatives in this area, led by our very own Miss Munro-Hall and Mrs Ferguson (both PHSE Trust Consultants) in this article on the GDST’s website here.