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Activities for Schools - Promoting Friendship and Fundraising
Choose from a selection of Anti-Bullying activities to take part in with your school.
Kidscape Kids Bake - The idea is simple - get your school to get baking, and have a bake sale with the goodies you produce – the proceeds going to Kidscape to help continue to protect children all over the UK from bullying. Find out more about the Kidscape Kids Bake...
The Big NO: Say NO to Bullying Assembly or Lesson:
Join the Kidscape campaign to Say NO to Bullying and have a special assembly (secondary school) or lesson (primary school) about bullying, and get all your students to stand up and shout ‘NO!’ to bullying.
Say NO to Bullying Assembly (Secondary) Kidscape’s aim is to have students in every school, all around the country to stand up at the end of their morning assembly and shout ‘NO’ to bullying.
You can download an Assembly Plan or if you need more information, please contact sntb@kidscape.org.uk
Say NO to Bullying Lesson (Primary) Kidscape has devised a lesson plan for Primary school students to discuss bullying and the issues surrounding it to raise awareness. This lesson covers creating ‘ground rules’ (a behaviour code) to create an open environment for discussions about bullying, what constitutes bullying, what it feels like to be bullied, why some people are bullied, and ways to avoid bullying. The lesson culminates in getting the class to stand up and shout ‘NO’ to bullying.
You can download an Assembly Plan or if you need more information, please contact sntb@kidscape.org.uk
Kidscape would appreciate it if you could document how your school has done The Big NO to Bullying – photos, stories, video clips, etc. Kidscape would love to hear about it, and we can feature your school on the website as one of the schools who has said NO to bullying.
Friendship Bracelet Circles
Have a coffee and cake morning with a twist… and make new friends whilst raising money for Kidscape and your school!
A great way to show you care for a friend, or make a new friend, while raising money for Kidscape and your school. Buy our Kidscape Friendship Bracelet kits for just 50p per pack, and sell them to your students for £1 per pack, and you can have a great morning’s fun having a Friendship Bracelet Circle. Get your creative muscles flexing – it’s easy and fun to do, and promotes an atmosphere of camaraderie. Encourage making new friends by letting children pick a name out of a hat for who they will make their friendship bracelet for.
Friendship Bracelet kits and other items are available from the Kidscape Shop.
Friendship Class Party: Sit With Someone New
Encourage friendship and have a ‘sit with someone new’ party.
Give all the class an opportunity to make new friends and have a ‘sit with someone new’ party! Encourage the students to sit with someone they have never sat with before during a class party.
Alternatively, allocate a ‘sit with someone new’ day and encourage the students to get to know new people. Put every student in the class’s name into a hat and pick them out at random to assemble a seating order for the day/week. This gives students the opportunity to get to know someone they wouldn’t have previously and builds up a greater sense of class community.
Red and Blue Mufti Day
Wear Kidscape colours instead of school uniform and raise money for your school and Kidscape!
Give your students the opportunity to shed their uniform and wear Kidscape colours (red and blue) – and split the proceeds between your school and Kidscape as a great way of helping to say NO to bullying.
Discuss Bullying: PSHE and Form Time
Lay out the ground-rules for behaviour to create an environment to say NO to bullying during PSHE or form time, and have an open discussion about bullying.
Follow the Kidscape Say NO to Bullying Form Time or PSHE Lesson and Discussion Plan for Secondary aged students, and devote a Form Time or PSHE session to discussing bullying, raising awareness, and creating a ground-rules code of conduct for your students to follow (set by the students, for the students).
Reading Partners (Primary) and Mentoring (Secondary):
Promote friendship throughout the school and set up a reading partners or mentoring scheme – students will feel they have someone older they can rely on and look up to in the school, which creates a greater sense of community.
Reading Partners Scheme (Primary):
- Pair up students so that older pupils can help practice reading with younger ones.
- You can also have Year 6s read Feeling Happy Feeling Safe, a Kidscape book which promotes personal safety in a fun way, suitable for younger ages, to the reception class.
This will give older pupils a sense of greater responsibility which will help them as they begin to face the transition to secondary school, and younger pupils a feeling of knowing an elder peer they can look up to and trust.
Mentoring Scheme (Secondary):
- Set up a ‘Friendly 6th Former’ type scheme, where you can allocate 6th formers and year 11 students a form in a lower year group in the school. Allocate a Form Time session where they can discuss problems they might be having as a class with a trusted yet elder peer. Students might feel more comfortable discussing a problem with an older student, rather than a teacher. This will also give the mentor a chance to feel more like an adult with greater responsibility, which is important in the years up to leaving school age.
Feeling Happy, Feeling Safe and other items are available from the Kidscape Shop.
Well Done Stickers:
Give out Kidscape Well Done Stickers to reward kindness, good behaviour, and helping others out.
Promote kindness and good behaviour in your school with Kidscape Well Done Stickers, which teachers can award to students for especially good or kind behaviour towards others. Provide sticker albums for your students and encourage them to collect as many stickers as they can – thereby promoting good behaviour in school.
Well Done stickers and other items are available from the Kidscape Shop.
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