Lesson plans, assemblies and resources for monitoring and tackling bullying

Anti-Bullying assembly plans (2004)
These assembly plans, produced for the first Anti-Bullying Week in 2004, were written by Ann Lovelace, author of several well-known assembly guides. The assemblies were developed from ideas suggested by young people in secondary and special schools and are based on the principle of maximum student participation. The materials include a full script and suggestions for props and resources. You can download all six assembly plans and a set of teachers' notes below.
Teachers' notes [PDF 84KB]
Assembly 1 [PDF 52KB]
Assembly 2 [PDF 52KB]
Assembly 3 [PDF 40KB]
Assembly 4 [PDF 49KB]
Assembly 5 [PDF 37KB]
Assembly 6 [PDF 40KB]

Anti-Bullying Charter for schools
Schools can sign up to this DCSF Charter to show their commitment to opposing bullying and evaluate their policies and practices
Bullying: a charter for action

Anti-Bullying Audit Toolkit
This ABA resource has been designed to help schools (and local authorities) survey, report and make informed responses to bullying. It was developed by Peter Smith and the ABA Research team at Goldsmith’s College, London and consists of a guidance document, a questionnaire for staff, one for parents and carers, and two for children and young people.
Audit toolkit user guidance [PDF 136KB]
Staff questionnaire [PDF 71KB]
Parents/carers questionnaire [PDF 77KB]
Children/Young People questionnaire [PDF 94KB]
Children/Young People questionnaire (short version) [PDF 91KB]

Anti-bullying videos and schools programmes
A variety of programmes available to watch or download, from the Teachers TV website
Teachers TV anti-bullying resources

Are you talking to me? young people's participation in anti-bullying
This document, written by John Khan, is designed to help professionals effectively involve children and young people in anti-bullying work
Participation guidance [PDF 527KB]

Anti-bullying lesson module [PDF 1.2MB]
This is an excerpt from "Social and Emotional Education", a teaching resource (for use with pupils 12 and over) produced by the Human Values Foundation. The resource, and others from the Foundation, are available from the Human Values Foundation website

Anti-bullying teaching and learning in PSHE Education
This resource, from the PSHE Association outlines the opportunities to address bullying within PSHE Education at Key Stages 1 to 4
PSHE Association anti-bullying resource

Links with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
The 20th anniversary of the publication of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) falls during Anti-Bullying Week and will be celebrated worldwide on 20 November. Many of the rights and responsibilities in the convention have a direct bearing on anti-bullying work. Anti-Bullying Week provides a good opportunity to make the link between the UNCRC and the rights of children to access communication systems and to feel safe and confident in the cyberworld.  To mark the occasion, the Children's Rights Alliance for England have produced an anniversary pack for schools which includes a collection of resources for schools, practitioners and young people.

Mencap have produced a children's charter: We Want to be Safe to coincide with the anniversary and Anti-Bullying Week.  The charter, in the form of a downloadable poster, has key messages of how children want professionals to help keep them safe. Children with a learning disability are twice as likely to be bullied as other children, and three times more likely to be abused. Mencap is fighting for the right of children and young people with a learning disability to feel safe. You can download a copy of the charter poster or request a hard copy by email .