Our aim of the day was to make year 7 more aware of bullying and the various forms it takes and how to tackle it if they happened to come across it. We designed a variety of workshop alongside Mr Sexton to help us do this
Period 1 and 2 Friendly Faces ran a carousel of workshops designed to make year 7 think about what bullying was.
The first workshop was where students mapped out where bullying was most likely to take place or perceived to take place within school. This was led by Mr Sexton and supported by the Friendly Face team. Feedback from this helps the team focus their lunchtime patrols more effectively and also made year 7 aware of where help is available from Friendly Faces and the perfect team.
The second workshop lead by the Friendly Faces (including Tom above) was a drama workshop where students considered how to deal with bullying and the forms it can take.
The final workshop led by our Friendly Face Captains, Head boy and Head girl considered what bullying was and how to stop it. The discussions around bullying were fantastic and thoughtful.
Period 3 a session was led by the School's digital captain (and friendly face) Megan alongside Mr Askew to consider what cyber bullying was and how to stop it.
After a lunch break all of year 7 got together in the hall for a final session led by Mr Sexton and supported by the Friendly Face team. The first task involved year 7 students drawing bullies in a small group which were pinned onto boards.
Once this was done students were asked to write anti-bullying tips and positive messages learnt during the day to help beat bullies and stick them over the bullies they had drawn to cover them up.
This was followed up by every student in the session creating a part of what will become an anti-bullying string of bunting to be put up somewhere within school. The aim is to keep adding to it year on year so that by the end of five years we have an anti-bullying display piece which declares our intention to keep Aylsham High bullying free which has been contributed to by every member of the student body.
The final part of the session was the unveiling of a music video. While the rest of the student body was off working on the day The Eagles were working with Mrs Sexton to write and perform an anti-bullying song supported by two of our more musical friendly faces. The were stunning and it was a nice reminder and summary of why we had spent the day looking at anti-bullying.
A huge thanks to Mr and Mrs Sexton, Mr Askew and the hugely talented James Hubbard (for photographing the day - all the good quality pictures on this blog are his)
