Archbishop Cranmer C of E Primary Academy promotes values which reject bullying behaviour and promote co-operative behaviour. Tackling bullying matters. 

Our school  is committed to providing a supportive, caring and safe environment in which all children are free from the fear of being bullied. As a school we take bullying and its impact seriously: bullying of any form is not tolerated. The school has high expectations of outstanding behaviour and we consistently challenge any behaviour that falls below this.

One of the ways we keep children safe is through teaching children about bullying and the effects it can have. This is covered through our weekly HeartSmart PSHE lessons  and as part of our assemblies and acts of collective worship. We also have visits from external providers, such as the NSPCC, who help us to recognise the importance of speaking out to stay safe. We always encourage children to tell an adult if they have any concerns about bullying. If they do not feel they can tell someone they can write a worry down and use our worry monster, who lives in our school library or head to our well-being hub with the on-line worry box.   Our Young Leaders  lead whole school assembly for Anti -bullying week each year  and we ensure anti-bullying maintains a  high profile at school through various awareness activities.

Our Link Governor for Anti-Bullying is Mrs Sarah Rowe.

All Together Schools Programme

We're pleased to announce that we have been awarded by the Anti-Bullying Alliance with a Gold status for our commitment to anti-bullying and wellbeing, upgrading from Silver status in 2021 and Bronze status in 2020. This means that our school has been recognised for its excellent practice, and are one of just 4% of schools who were awarded this status for 2022. We are proud to be a school that is United Against Bullying and will be continuing to work towards maintaining Gold status in future years!

As part of the programme, we achieved the following, initially to earn Bronze:

• Created a specific Anti-Bullying Standard

• Appointed a member of our Pupil Parliament to act as our pupil representative for Anti-Bullying awareness.

• Celebrated Anti-Bullying Week in November, where our Pupil Parliament led an informative assembly and organised 'Odd Socks Day' to raise awareness

• Introduced a new scheme for PSHE (Personal Social Health Education) which encourages children to develop resilience and covers anti-bullying awareness

• Provided staff with training materials to support their practice in developments and resources for Anti-Bullying  

We were awarded with our Silver school status in March 2021 following another self-audit of our practice and commitment to anti-bullying. As part of the programme, we achieved the following:

• Updated our Anti-Bullying Policy, in line with ABA recommendations and to ensure clear guidance was in place.

• Advocated Anti-Bullying through the use of pupil voice as part of our Pupil Parliament where Annie and Kaitlyn (Year 5), our MPs for Anti-Bullying (2020-21), helped to organise events as part of Anti-Bullying Week in November, and much more! You can read their report below.

• Pupils in Key Stage 2 have also begun taking part in Anti-Bullying Ambassador training through the Diana Award.

• Provided staff with training materials to support their practice in developments and resources for Anti-Bullying.

• Continued to ensure that anti-bullying awareness is part of our wider curriculum.

We were awarded with our Gold status in July 2022 following another self-audit of our practice and commitment to anti-bullying. As part of the programme, we achieved the following:

• Updated our Anti-Bullying Standard, in line with ABA recommendations and to ensure clear guidance was in place.

• Advocated Anti-Bullying through the use of pupil voice as part of our Pupil Parliament where Emily L (Year 6) and Evalyn (Year 5), our MPs for Anti-Bullying (2020-21), helped to organise events as part of Anti-Bullying Week in November, and much more! They worked alongside our MPs for wellbeing to create a video to help all children across school to know how they can get support in school to support them if they are feeling worried.

• Pupils in Key Stage 2 engaged in Anti-Bullying Ambassador training through the Diana Award.

• Provided staff with training materials to support their practice in developments and resources for Anti-Bullying.

• Continued to ensure that anti-bullying awareness is part of our wider curriculum.

• View our case studies and audit results below, completed as part of the programme to target awareness, wellbeing and reduce bullying.

Moving forward, we would like to maintain our Gold status for 2023, and begun using our previous year's results to audit our provision and create a new action plan to ensure that we continue to be recognised for our excellent practice in working against bullying. 

Below is a copy of our Anti-Bullying Standard - one of our key documents outlining how we ensure all children are kept happy and safe.