30 June 2009

SCHOOL’S COMPETITION LAUNCHED FOR THIS YEAR’S ANTI-BULLYING WEEK

Cyberbullying will be the theme for this year’s Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA) Anti-Bullying Week (16-20 November) and a competition has been launched to get pupils thinking about the issues.

ABA is asking primary age children to design a ‘fuzzy’ (a logo bug) that will be used on posters, campaign materials and also made up into thousands of real fuzzies for schools to use.

Secondary school pupils are invited to come up with a short slogan, which will be attached to the ‘fuzzy’, to take an anti-cyberbullying message to schools around the country.

Sue Steel, National Manager of ABA, said: ‘We hope the competitions will get pupils actively involved in the design and messages for Anti-Bullying Week and it’s a fun end of term activity. November 16 is still the start of Anti-Bullying Week, but bullying goes on all year round and it’s good for schools to have an opportunity to talk about the issues right now.’

Sue Steel added: ‘More primary school children have mobile phones and are using the internet to send emails and play games, so this theme spans a wide age group and it’s good to get them involved in understanding what cyberbullying is and how to stop it.’

Primary school pupils will be given a template to colour in and can accessorise to create their ‘fuzzy’. Secondary school pupils have to come up with a slogan of not more than 24 characters including spaces, which can include text words. 

The competition closes on Monday 20 July.

The winners will get 500 free fuzzies for their school as well as their designs and messages being used nationwide.