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My name's Alex Holmes and I'm the Anti-Bullying Programme Manager
at the Diana Award.
Today is the start of National Anti-Bullying Week and we're bringing
together over 400 young people and their staff to come up with creative approaches
to tackling bullying.
We know that young people suffer online and offline and
we want to make sure that when they develop their
anti-bullying campaigns, they are fresh, exciting and full of creative approaches.
I'm running a workshop today and I am a little bit nervous I have to say
because last time all the kids I did the workshop with where far more confident and
far more accomplished than me when it came to performing.
I think drama for me personally was a bit of an escape.
At school I was not necessarily that happy and I had a little bit of experience
with bullying and drama was a great opportunity for me to kind of escape that.
I feel like so many kids have negative experiences at school and growing up
as a result of bullying...and that's wrong and that needs to change. Schools should be
a happy environment where they feel comfortable, safe and supported
at all times and that is the way we ensure that they have the brightest future.
Today I really want to help to stamp out bullying.
It is not enough to tolerate people who are different. It is not enough to
accept people who are different. The job isn't done until we learn to
celebrate difference. I'm really excited about meeting 60 kids.
I've got two workshops and what I'm going to get them to do is I am going to get
them to write something on a piece of paper that makes them different and the thing
they have had to learn to live with and perhaps the thing they have had to own or
work how they are defined or not by it. I am then going to get them
to swap sheets of paper and see how comfortable they are
with somebody else's difference.
I'm really looking forward to having a drama workshop today with a couple of
other actors and hopefully get them to get to their schools and put their foot
down and really tackle bullying in their schools through an artistic way here
but then their real life.
Hi, I’m Hayley Cripps and I am a Dance and Drama teacher at Ringmer Academy.
I think the day has been really really good for the kids and for us as well.
They really enjoyed the workshops, we have got lots of talented musicians,
singers and dancers who have really enjoyed working the celebs as they say.
We are very passionate about anti-bullying at Jack Hunt School, hence why we have
come to this event. The event has been absolutely fantastic and the kids have
really enjoyed it. The workshops have been brilliant and have given the students
lots and lots of ideas that we can take back to school.
Thank you so much to the young people and the staff that have joined us today
for the start of National Anti-Bullying Week. Bullying is something that
shouldn't be a normal part of growing up or a normal part of childhood and I am
pleased so many young people and staff are doing something to
stamp it out because together we can tackle bullying.