This week CTS are supporting anti-bullying week, a campaign run by the Anti-Bullying Alliance to raise awareness on bullying and encourage all children, teachers and parents to take action on bullying throughout the year.

This year the theme is: 'All Different, All Equal'.

Aims of the week:

• Empower children and young people.
• Celebrate what makes them, and others, unique.
• Help children and young people understand how important it is that every child feels valued and included in school.
• Be able to be themselves, without fear of bullying.
• Celebrate difference and equality.
• Encouraging them to take individual and collective action to prevent bullying.
• Creating safe environments where children and young people can be themselves.

CTS encourage the initiative by promoting anti-bullying week within the school. We do this through a number of ways and events throughout the week, this year there will be:

• Posters up around school
• Challenge unwanted, unpleasant and derogatory language and behaviour.
• Do not give this behaviour an audience.
• Report this type of behaviour.
• Actively participate in tutor time activities to support others.
• Teachers have been asked to use blue backgrounds.
• Wear blue Friday.
• Hate crime workshops on Friday for year 7-9

Tutor time will be tailored specifically for anti-bullying week, see below for a timetable: