Friendship & Kindness Week

10-14 November 2025

Following on from the renaming of our annual ‘Anti-Bullying Week’ to ‘Friendship & Kindness Week’, (in order to focus more upon the positive behaviours that we are aiming to encourage from the children) I thought you might like some details about the organisation of the week.

We will still mark Anti-Bullying Week through the Jigsaw sessions taught, but our whole school display will focus upon friendship and kindness.

Our ‘Friendship & Kindness’ week will take place between Monday 10 – Friday 14 November 2025 to coincide with Anti-Bullying week dates.

Activities for the week

• Assemblies – These will carry a friendship and kindness theme throughout the week, alongside listening to a song about friendship.
• Jigsaw lessons - lessons will be covered during the week which will help to raise awareness and equip the children with an understanding as to how to identify and stop bullying from happening, alongside promoting kind behaviors.
• School display – A friendship and kindness display, (which can be found in the corridor leading out to the playground), will be updated to celebrate our work carried out during the week.

Anti-Bullying Week 2025 – Parent Information Tool Pack

The Anti-Bullying Alliance provide a useful parent tool pack.  Here is a hyperlink which takes you straight to this information; ABW Parent Tool Kit 2025  it contains lots of helpful tips about what to do if you’re worried about bullying, and provides you with tools that will help you to talk to your children about bullying.

Please note: Our Academy will not be organising the ‘Wear Odd Socks Day’ detailed within the parent pack.

We hope that the week will be a great success and that the children will gain a greater understanding of the impact that kind behaviour can have on everyone.