Anti-Bullying Week 2014 Secondary Assembly

ANTI-BULLYING WEEK 2014 OFFICIAL FILM

Aims of Anti-Bullying Week 2014 Stop bullying of disabled children and those with special educational needs All discriminatory language is wrong including disablist language Promote Anti-Bullying initiatives led by young people that include everyone Oxfordshire “Mind Your Language” Campaign

Some facts – national surveys Disabled students are twice as likely to be bullied 8 out of 10 students with learning difficulties have been bullied 82% of students who stammer are bullied 90% of students with Aspergers have been bullied in the last year

Homophobic Bullying Oxfordshire Survey 2013 Lesbian Gay or Bisexual students almost twice as likely to be bullied 39% of all those surveyed hear people being insulted for being gay ‘most days’ 47% of all those surveyed hear the word ‘gay’ used negatively most days (rises as get older)

Homophobic Language Impact on Young People “It’s not what they say to me individually that gets at me, it’s the constant stream of anti-gay remarks that people don’t even know they make. I feel awful all the time. It eats away inside you and sometimes knowing what they’d do to me if they knew makes me lose the ability to breathe” “I hate it when students use homophobic words like ‘gay’ or ‘faggot’, it’s horrible”

Homophobic Language

Prejudice Related Language

Verbal Bullying

Consequences of bullying

Consequences of “doing nothing” 3 People Involved in Bullying Bully Victim Bystander

Oxfordshire Mind Your Language Campaign

Anti-Bullying Week Competition Poster competition with individual prizes of £30 gift vouchers Multimedia competition – win £100 for your school to spend on an Anti-Bullying Campaign Closing date Friday 19 th December

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