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Hayling Herald Education
Hayling College students
trained to tackle bullying
By Emma Cooper from Hayling
College
MORE than 150 pupils, including 15 pupils from The Hayling
College, took part in a one-day
anti-bullying training session
run by The Diana Award at The
Hayling College.
Young people, aged 11 to 16,
worked together and acquired
vital skills to enable them to
change the attitudes and behaviours of bullying in their
school by building their skills
and confidence to address different situations, both off and
online.
The Diana Award’s free Anti-Bullying Ambassador Programme, which is available to
schools across the UK, sees
facilitators working with students and other young people to
change the attitude surrounding
bullying both across the UK and
beyond.
The programme has a strong
peer-to-peer focus, with facilitators giving young people the
skills and confidence to become
Anti-Bullying Ambassadors to
tackle bullying in their schools
long after the training has finished.
The Diana Award’s anti-bullying work is recognised as worldclass thanks to this sustainable
approach.
The training looked at bullying
in different situations including
face-to-face and online. At the
end of the day, pupils made an
action plan of how to approach
bullying issues that may arise
in their schools and committed
to their roles as Anti-Bullying
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Ambassadors.
Pupils at The Hayling College
will now be working together to
put into place the Social Action
Plan we started to create.
On Wednesday 21 February,
The Hayling College opened
their doors again to The Diana
Award team for them to offer
the Anti-Bullying Ambassador
training to over 100 primary
school students.
The Diana Award benefits
from the support of HRH The
Prince of Wales and The Duke
of Sussex and was founded as a
lasting legacy to their mother,
Diana, Princess of Wales’ belief
that young people have the power to change the world.
The charity fosters, develops
and inspires positive change
in the lives of young people
through four key programmes
which include a mentoring
programme for young people
at risk, a youth-led Anti-Bullying Ambassadors campaign,
a collaborative Changemakers
programme that aims to reimagine mental health support for
young people from racialised
communities, and a prestigious
award which publicly recognises young changemakers – The
Diana Award.
The Diana Award’s Anti-Bullying Campaign involves several
projects aimed at bullying in
schools.
One of its main projects is
the Anti-Bullying Ambassadors
Programme, which has trained
over 50,000 young people across
the UK to lead on anti-bullying
Pupils graduating from the Diana Awards Anti-Bullying Ambassador Programme
campaigns in their schools.