Inspiring Positive Change in Schools
Imagine if every school and organisation had a dedicated anti-bullying and wellbeing lead. While tight budgets and limited staff often make this a challenge, that’s where we step in – bringing the expertise, resources, and support to help make it a reality for your community.
Creating safer schools starts here and at BulliesOut, we believe in working with you to develop and maintain a positive ethos across your whole school community, creating an environment that meets the emotional, academic and social needs of your pupils and staff.
How We Help
We believe raising aspirations and promoting empathy, respect, and responsibility are essential for every young person. Our workshops and training programmes bring these values to life through practical, interactive activities that actively engage pupils. These activities help students develop empathy, reflect on their behaviour, strengthen problem-solving skills, and build a strong sense of teamwork and community.
We can deliver our sessions in person or online, and we also offer resource kits for schools to use directly. Additional activities are available for download, making it easy to bring our approach into your classroom whenever you need it.
At BulliesOut, we believe every child deserves to feel safe, valued, and respected. We’re here to support children and families facing bullying behaviour, and to work alongside teachers and school leaders to create environments where bullying behaviour is never ignored.
Bullying behaviour can happen anywhere, anytime, to anyone. That’s why schools must lead the way in building a culture of kindness – where staff and students actively look out for one another, take clear steps to prevent harmful behaviour, and respond decisively the moment it occurs. Together, we can reduce bullying behaviour, protect wellbeing, and ensure every pupil can thrive.
Peer2Peer
Our Award Winning Peer2Peer Programme, promotes Strength Through Sharing and the training day provides a full programme for young people that include life skills sessions such as active listening skills, communication skills and confidentiality, understanding bullying behaviour and managing conflict, boundaries in mentoring, time management and the importance of diversity.
Playground Pals
Playground Pals is our bespoke Peer Mentoring Programme designed for primary schools. Playground Pals is a fun and interactive training day designed to teach children how to be kind, helpful, and inclusive friends during playtime. The programme was developed to encourage a healthier, more active, playtime, one that is harmonious, increases friendships and provides support.
Workshops and Training
Exploring Bullying Behaviour in a safe, inclusive way. Our workshops are designed to be engaging, inclusive, interactive and age appropriate. Suitable for schools, youth and community settings, our workshops cover a range of anti-bullying, kindness and well-being themes.
Key Things to Put in Place to Help Deal with Bullying Behaviour
Ethos and Climate
The ethos of a school can sometimes be identified as soon as you enter the reception area. What does yours look like? Is it warm and welcoming? Promote your values and standards at every opportunity and demonstrate in your actions that you listen and care and expect this behaviour from all members of your school community at all times. Let people know that you will not tolerate aggressive or humiliating behaviour and you take a zero tolerance to bullying behaviour in any form. It is important that every member of your school community feels a sense of belonging and is welcome, listened to, and valued.
Leadership and Guidance
Bullying behaviour will always be one of the main concerns of children, young people and their families. Having a Governor and named member of the Senior Leadership Team who leads on anti-bullying, prevention and response will offer some confidence that and incidents will be taken seriously and investigated. Ensure this is in line with your safeguarding and behaviour policies
Training
Anti-bullying and wellbeing training is essential for every member of school staff. It equips teachers and support teams with the knowledge, confidence, and practical strategies to recognise the signs of bullying behaviour, respond effectively, and foster a culture of respect and empathy. By investing in this training, schools not only protect the wellbeing of their students but also empower staff to create safe, inclusive learning environments where every child can thrive. Visit our Training page to see how we can help.
Anti-Bullying Policy
Consult with the whole school community – staff, pupils and parents, on what you believe your definition of bullying behaviour to be. Include in your policy what you will do to prevent bullying behaviour and how you will support those affected by it. Write it in a language that everyone can understand and share with all. Add the policy to your school website and encourage every member of the school community to sign up to it. Your anti-bullying policy should be a working document and regularly reviewed to ensure it remains fit for purpose.
What should you do if an incident of bullying behaviour happens in your school?
1. Reassure. Let the young person know this is not their fault, you will support them and together you will sort it out.
2. Record. Make a note of what has happened where, with who, and for how long. Then ask them or their parent/guardian to keep a log of everything that has happened.
3. Talk to the young person and ask them what they need from you. Ask how they are feeling, and any practical steps you can take to help stop the bullying behaviour. It’s important that they feel in control of the situation. They may be very fearful of the impact of telling you (e.g. being called a snitch/grass) so work together to establish the best course of action.
4. Act. Your focus should be on making sure the bullying behaviour stops. Follow up with everyone involved, explore what has taken place and the action needed to stop it happening again. The other child or children may deny what has taken place, may say that it has been in retaliation, and will very often have an alternative story. The important message is that you will not tolerate bullying behaviour of any kind, that someone has been hurt, that it must stop, and that something needs to change. Discuss with everyone involved what the next steps will be, and a time when you will check in with them.
5. Record the incident and your action. To ensure you are able to keep track of repeated incidents and evidencing you have taken appropriate action, good record keeping is important and is something Estyn/Ofsted will ask to see.
6. Make sure the young person is safe. This is so important and the school has a legal duty to keep them safe. If they have been harmed in any way or are at risk of harm, do not send them into a situation where they are not safe. Their safety is a priority. If they have been assaulted or threatened with harm, follow your school’s safeguarding policy and prodecures.
7. Provide further support. Think about what other strategies you can put in place to support all young people long term. Are there other school staff members or pupils that can be available to support and mentor the person who is being bullied? If you are concerned about the impact on the child’s physical or mental health, then contact the appropriate services. Support should also be available for the person(s) displaying the bullying behaviour. They may need to help to recognise their behaviour is unacceptable and they may need a longer term intervention.
8. Learn from each incident. Consider the actions you need to take as a whole school aproach to stop this happening again. For example, if bullying behaviour keeps happening in the same place, levels of supervision may need to be increased. If a certain demographic of the pupil population is continually bullied (e.g. children who do not conform to gender norms, disabled children or those with special educational needs), then you need to ensure you increase your education on inclusion. If you have an increase in online bullying, work with the whole school community, including parents, and reinforce the impact of online bullying and the part everyone plays in stopping it.
9. A formal complaint is submitted. The more proactive your work with parents and carers, the more clear the actions you will take to prevent and respond to incidents of bullying behaviour, the less likely this will happen. Work together, agree the next steps, keep records of events and incidents and regularly check-in with the family. If they do complain, always remain calm and do not let it get ‘personal’ or ‘heated’. The safety of the young person and the need for the bullying to stop is paramount. Seek external support if necessary.