Celebrating our school’s core values that help prevent bullying
behaviour
NB: Before starting this activity you will need to familiarise yourself with your
school’s/college’s core values.
This activity should be used in conjunction with the accompanying PowerPoint Celebrating
Our School’s Core Values Lesson Plan v1a and Resources One & Two, that can be
downloaded from: http://www.antibullyingworks.co.uk/anti-bullying-week-resources/
This lesson plan can be used in a number of ways. These include:
 To review the school’s/college’s existing core values
 To provide an opportunity for learners to explore and identify the school’s/college’s core
values that help prevent bullying behaviour
 To develop an anti-bullying charter based upon the school’s core values
 To enable learners to design a unique piece of graffiti artwork to communicate a positive
anti-bullying message
Learning outcomes:
 Learners are able to inform the core values of the school/college through a dynamic,
collaborative, and inclusive process
 Learners examine & understand how their school values help prevent bullying behaviour
Activity
Before delivering the workshop make sure that you have copies of your school’s/college’s
vision statement and core values.
Slide (3) Start by asking learners if they know what their school’s/college’s core values are.
Write any responses down on a flipchart/wipe board.
You may need to prompt learners, do they include - respect for difference, diversity,
equality, caring, kindness or fairness?
If learners are not familiar with your school’s/college’s core values hand out copies of
mission statement and core values and have a group discussion.
Slide (4) - Pose the questions – ‘why do you think our school’s core values are important?’
Make a note of responses.
Answers might include:
 Our core values shape how people treat each other in school (including adults) both in
terms up how we treat other people and how we wish to be treated
 Our core values tell other people outside of school how we treat each other
Prompt questions: ‘why does the school have core values?’ or ‘what do the school’s values
achieve?’
Slides (5) Briefly introduce each of the core values highlighted on the slide.
Ask the group – ‘Are there certain core values that help prevent bullying behaviour in our
school?’ Again, make a note of responses.
Start by dividing learners up into small groups. Explain that you are going to do an activity
based on each of the core values. Give each group a set of core value cards (see Core Value
Cards Resource One). Ask the group to then have a short discussion about what they think
each of core values means.
Explain that learners might have different opinions about what the core values mean, but
this is okay. If learners are unsure about what some of the words mean have dictionaries
and thesaurus to hand so they can look the words up. Next, get each group to write down
on a post-it a short sentence outlining what each core value means.
Now explain to the group that you want them to come up with a positive statement or
sentence that best captures how each core value can help prevent bullying behaviour in the
school.
You may need to give learners a couple of examples. These might include:
 Teamwork – we all work together to stop bullying behaviour happening
 Equality – everyone is treated equally and fairly in our school
Bring learners back together and discuss each of the core the values and link these to how
they think each one can help prevent bullying behaviour in the school. Get learners to agree
what they think the most important statements are, in term of preventing bullying
behaviour.
Extension activity – Designing an Anti-Bullying Charter
You need to discuss and agree as a class, what the most important core values and
statements should be in our Anti-Bullying Charter.
Once you have agreed your top 5 or top 10 ask each learner to design a poster. The poster
might include all the statements or you may wish to ask each learner to focus on one
statement, but make sure that all the key statements are covered. This activity could also be
done as part of a Computing or Art and Design lesson.
Extension activity – Graffiti workshop
Similarly, you may wish to have each learner create a unique piece of graffiti artwork based
on a core value or positive anti-bullying statement. See Resource Two for a number of
examples of graffiti styles.
Have learners explore graffiti styles using the graffiti creator tool that can be accessed at:
http://www.graffiticreator.net/htm/creator_kodiak.htm#.Vik8_mSrTL8
Slides 7- 16 provide learners with a number of examples of graffiti styles.
Slide 17 – 30 provide learners with a number of examples of anti-bullying bullying campaign
messages.
Core Value Cards
Resource One
What does respect mean?
Respect
Write a sentence how respect can help prevent bullying behaviour.
What does caring mean?
CARING
Write a sentence how caring for each other can help prevent bullying
behaviour.
What does kindness mean?
Kindness
Write a sentence how being kind to each other can help prevent bullying
behaviour.
What does teamwork mean?
Teamwork
Write a sentence that says how teamwork can help prevent bullying
behaviour.
What does diversity mean?
Diversity
Write a sentence that says how diversity can help prevent bullying
behaviour.
What does courage mean?
Courage
Write a sentence that says how having courage can help prevent bullying
behaviour.
What does equality mean?
Equality
Write a sentence that says how equality helps prevent bullying behaviour.
What does feeling safe mean?
Feeling Safe
Write a sentence that says how feeling safe helps prevent bullying
behaviour.
What does justice or fairness mean?
Justice/Fairness
Write a sentence that says how justice or treating each other fairly can help
prevent bullying behaviour.
Resource Two
Examples of
Graffiti Styles
(Aerosol font)
CARING
(Peinture Friache font)

(Docalliseme on Street font]

Teamwork
(Graffiti Treat font)
Diversity
[Nosegrind Demo font]
Courage
[PeaceFight font]
Equality
[Star Jedi Rounded font]
Feeling
Safe
[Graffiti Treat font]
(Aerosol font)