Anti-Bullying Week

To think about this year's Anti Bullying Week children in Key Stage 2 at Herne View School in Ilminster came together in collective worship to create their own acrostic poem. The children aim to use this poem in school to ensure their message is shared so that the whole community remembers this year’s anti-bullying week message of respect. The poem they created was as follows:

Respect other’s boundaries

Emotions are important – try to help others with them

Stop leaving people out

Persuade bullying to stop

Empathise with others

Consideration of others – celebrate others’ achievements

Treat others how you want to be treated

Children were very empathetic when considering how to support anti-bullying and this was eloquently described by Sam in Y6 who when asked why anti-bullying week is important responded, ‘I think it is really important as bullying isn’t right and people shouldn’t be picked on for their differences either inside or out. I want everyone to understand that we are all different in our own unique way and that doesn’t make you any less of a person.’