Anti-Bullying
Hatch End High School are members of the UK Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA) and the Diana Award Anti-Bullying Programme. Click here for more information.
Diana Award Anti-Bullying Programme - https://diana-award.org.uk/
UK Anti-Bullying Alliance - https://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/
Anti-Bullying Support – Key Staff
Lead Staff: Miss M Dunford and the Safeguarding Team
Anti-Bullying Co-ordinator: Mr M Ammar
What is bullying?
Bullying is defined as behaviour that is:
- repeated
- intended to hurt someone either physically or emotionally
- often aimed at certain groups, for example because of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation
It takes many forms and can include:
- physical assault
- teasing
- making threats
- name calling
- cyberbullying
Student led Anti-Bullying Campaigns
As part of the Diana Award Anti-Bullying programme, we have a group of trained Anti-Bullying Ambassadors and Anti-Bullying mentors at Hatch End High School. These student led initiatives and support networks encourage students to support their peers with bullying issues as well as having a proactive and preventative approach bullying.
Anti-Bullying Ambassadors
- A group of 25 students, with representatives from each year group (years 7-11) who have been trained by the Diana Award in bullying prevention and supporting their peers.
- The Anti-Bullying Ambassadors are involved in running activities to prevent bullying, including National Anti-Bullying Week, Wellbeing Week and Children’s Mental Health Day.
- The Anti-Bullying Ambassadors are around school throughout the day at breaktimes and lunchtimes for students to talk to and can also be contacted via email.
Anti-Bullying Mentors
- A group of 10 Year 12 and 13 students who are specifically trained to support their younger peers, the anti- bulling mentors are role models for younger students and run both formal large group mentoring sessions and informal small group meetings.
- The Anti- bullying mentors are contactable by email.
Anti-Bullying Week
Information to follow on this year's event.
For advice on dealing with bullying as a parent click here.
Anti-Bullying School Email
The school also has an Anti-Bullying email address that students can contact if they do not want to speak to a teacher or Anti-Bullying Ambassador face to face:
antibullying@hatchend.harrow.sch.uk
Anti-Bullying Websites and Resources
The Diana Award - https://diana-award.org.uk/award/devpro/resources/
UK Anti-Bullying Alliance - https://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/tools-information
BullyingUK - https://www.bullying.co.uk
Cyber-Bullying Advice
Cyber-Bullying is when a person or a group of people uses the internet, mobile phones, online games or any other kind of digital technology to threaten, tease, upset or humiliate someone else. To know more about Cyber-Bullying and help on how to deal with it, click here and for information about E-Safety click here.