Assembly resources

Anti-Bullying Week

A complete Anti-Bullying Week assembly for Heads of Year, with slides, script notes, bystander guidance and tutor time reflection.

Year group: All years Best delivered: Anti-Bullying Week (November), but works any time bullying needs addressing directly Duration: 10 minutes Tone: Serious without being heavy-handed.

Empathetic throughout.

Direct where it needs to be.

Script notes Opening (before Slide 1, 2 minutes) Don't open with the word "bullying." Students have heard it so many times it has lost its texture.

Open with something that makes it feel personal and real before you name it.

Try this: "I want to start with something I'd like you to keep in your own head, not share out loud.

Think of someone in this school who you know isn't having a great time socially.

Not a friend, just someone you're aware of.

Someone who maybe eats lunch alone sometimes.

Someone who gets spoken to in a way that isn't quite right.

Or someone who you've seen left out of a conversation or a group." Let that sit for five seconds.

Then: "Most of you thought of someone.

That matters.

Because most of what I'm going to talk about today isn't about the person doing the harm.

It's about everyone else in that scenario, including you." Play your video here if using one.

The definition (Slide 2, 1.5 minutes) Now give the definition.

This is important to do carefully because students often misuse the word: "Bullying is repeated behaviour that hurts someone, physically, emotionally, or online, where there's an imbalance of power." Emphasise each of the key elements: Repeated , a one-off unkind comment is not bullying.

It's unkind and it matters, but it's different from a sustained pattern of behaviour targeting the same person.