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Break the Silence Slides: Anti-Bullying Week 2026 KS3 Lesson

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1. Break the Silence

Anti-Bullying Week 2026, 16 to 20 November.

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2. Ground rules

  • Listen with respect.
  • No names or real examples about people in our school.
  • You can pass.
  • Ask questions anonymously using the question box.
  • If anything worries you, talk to me or another trusted adult after the lesson.

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3. Starter

On a scale of 1 to 5 (show fingers):

"If I saw someone being bullied, I would tell an adult."

Then:

"If I was being bullied, I would tell someone."

Why might our answers be different?

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4. What is bullying?

"The repetitive, intentional hurting of one person or group by another person or group, where the relationship involves an imbalance of power. It can happen face to face or online." (Anti-Bullying Alliance)

Four keys:

  • Repeated
  • Intentional
  • Hurtful
  • Power imbalance

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5. Bullying or not?

  1. Two friends trade jokes about each other's football teams and both laugh.
  2. Sam is removed from the class group chat every time he joins, and people post laughing emojis.
  3. Priya gets bumped once in the corridor by someone rushing to class.
  4. Every lunchtime, older pupils make Jay hand over his snacks.
  5. Someone posts an edited photo of Leah once and it is shared hundreds of times.
  6. Ellie has asked her mates to stop copying how she talks. They keep doing it and say it is "just banter".

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6. Answers

  1. Not bullying: equal and both enjoying it, but it would become bullying if one asked to stop and it carried on.
  2. Bullying: repeated, deliberate, group power.
  3. Not bullying: a one-off accident, but tell someone if you were hurt.
  4. Bullying, and possibly a crime.
  5. Bullying: every share repeats the harm, and it may be a crime. Report it.
  6. Bullying: she asked them to stop.

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7. The silence

Official figures show around 1 in 7 children bullied in person, and nearly 1 in 5 bullied online, told nobody at all (ONS, 2024).

Why do you think people stay quiet?

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8. Barrier wall

In groups, write reasons people stay silent on sticky notes and build a wall.

Then, for each barrier, write a "silence breaker": something a person or the school could do to remove it.

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9. Scenario carousel

  • A) You are in a group chat where people keep posting mean memes about a girl in your year. She is not in the chat.
  • B) Every day a Year 9 pupil blocks a Year 7 from getting to his locker.
  • C) A false rumour about you is going round and your friends have gone quiet.
  • D) A pupil who uses a hearing aid is being copied and mocked in PE.

For each:

  • How might the target feel?
  • Why might people stay silent?
  • What could a bystander safely do right now?
  • Who could they tell, and how?

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10. How to speak up

If it is happening to you

  • Tell someone you trust.
  • Keep evidence.
  • Use a script.

If you see it

  • Do not join in or laugh along.
  • Check in with the person.
  • Report it.

Online

  • Screenshot.
  • Block.
  • Report.
  • Tell.

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11. Who can I tell?

  • Trusted adults in school (teacher adds names and photos here).
  • Parents or carers.
  • Our school's anonymous reporting route (teacher adds details).
  • Childline: 0800 1111 or childline.org.uk, free and confidential, 24 hours a day.

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12. My Break the Silence plan

Complete the plan on your worksheet.

Exit question: Name one person you could tell, and one thing you could say.