Anti-Bullying Week 2026 primary activities

Primary activities should make the Break the Silence theme concrete: pupils need simple language for friendship, exclusion, telling a trusted adult and helping someone safely.

Activity 1: kind, unkind or bullying

Give pupils a set of fictional classroom and playground examples. Ask them to sort each example into kind, unkind, conflict or bullying behaviour. The aim is not to catch pupils out; it is to help them notice repetition, power imbalance and impact.

Finish by asking what a trusted adult could do next and what a safe friend could do next.

Activity 2: trusted adult map

Ask pupils to draw a simple map of school and mark where they could find trusted adults during different parts of the day: playground, lunch, corridor, classroom, club and home time.

This turns help-seeking into a real route. It is especially useful for younger pupils who know they should tell someone but are not sure who is available in the moment.

Activity 3: odd socks reflection

After Odd Socks Day, ask pupils to write or draw one way people can be different and still belong. Then link the conversation back to silence: why might someone stay quiet if they feel left out, and what can the class do to make telling easier?

Activity 4: sentence practice

Practise short help-seeking sentences out loud: I need help with something, someone is being left out, I saw something unkind, or I am worried about a message. Keep the task gentle and normal so pupils do not feel they need perfect words before asking for help.

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