Lola was affected by bullying and this triggered her social anxiety.  We encourage people to report bullying. Bullying should never happen to anyone and there is no excuse.  Websites such as Childline can help people to cope with bullying. Report it to Childline if you are worried about something are call the call line on…

This month is LGBTQ+ History Month and to celebrate it Sue Sanders, its co-founder, has been speaking out about diversity and tackling homophobia. She and Paul Patrick founded this event in 2004 to celebrate LGBTQ+ History. Every year there is a theme and this year it is poetry, prose and plays. The reason why LGBTQ+…

A month ago, I came out as Non Binary, I realised that would come with a certain degree of backlash, but I didn’t expect it to be as bad as it was. I could barely go through lessons without being mocked, deliberately called a girl or being told I only came out to seek attention.…

A couple of months ago, I was on the bus home from school when someone poured a bottle of coke over me and attacked me with mushed up bananas. If this happens to you, Make sure you tell a trusted adult about your experiences to stop it happening again. I told  a trustworthy science teacher…

Young Cabinet Member William presenting the award to Marine Park First School on achieving the Anti Bullying Standards Award

Anti-bullying week is a week during November that focuses on preventing bullying and ways in which to deal with it. This is a national initiative and this year the topic will be ‘Change starts with us’. the anti bullying alliance interviewed over 1000 children and this was chosen as the topic. This means that if…