Write with Nik: Celebrating our Differences

For Primary and Secondary ages. Join our virtual Push-Play Workshop with writer, Nik Perring, to explore and reflect on what makes us different and ways of respecting those differences. Nik's Workshop video brings his expertise and passion into your classroom, to help you break down the barriers to poetry writing.

Whole School Assembly

Our whole school assembly introduces this year’s ‘Choose Respect’ theme for Anti-Bullying Week, using videos of children sharing their idea, and this can then be used to start further discussion and reflection on the theme across your school.

Optional Extra Lesson Plans (for Ages 7-13)

Respect is something that everyone deserves regardless of the differences we have with each other, and recognising what respect looks like is important.

Our 2 primary lessons support further discussion and exploration beyond the existing content built into the Jigsaw 3-11/12 Programme, on what we mean by respect and why it is important.

Extension Activities for Primary

Our extension activities can be used in addition to these lessons, or instead of them, with children from Ages 5 yrs onwards to creatively explore the theme of ‘Choose Respect’ for Anti-Bullying Week 2024.

Existing Primary Jigsaw Lessons on Bullying

The topic of bullying is already built into our Celebrating Difference lessons from Ages 5-6yrs onwards, so that you can take part in Anti-Bullying Week without having to add any extra content if you do not want to.

This allows children to access this teaching and learning as part of their usual safe learning environment for Jigsaw PSHE.

Anti-Bullying Week Booklist

For ages 5-16. Looking for books to share across your school for this year’s Anti-Bullying Week?

We have collated a short list of books for Ages 3-16 that you could use as a starting point in your school. 

Please do share your displays, ideas and other books and film ideas with us too!

Downloadable Posters

Available for Primary and Secondary Schools.
Use our 2024 Choose Respect Anti-Bullying Week posters in your classrooms, in your newsletter and on your website to raise awareness of the work going on in all your classes and across the school. Help launch Anti-Bullying Week around your school with this handy flyer. Use our 'Choose Respect' Poster to raise awareness about Anti-Bullying Week across the whole school community.

Primary Celebration Scroll

We have edited our Weekly Celebration Scroll to reflect Anti-bullying Week and to help you to bring the learning in the classroom out across the whole school.

Tell the children that whenever we see someone joining in with Anti-bullying Week by talking about it, standing up for others or reflecting the different qualities we have been talking about today and in your Jigsaw lessons, we can give them a shout out – by writing their names down to share at the end of the week in our Celebration Assembly.

Jigsaw Friends Celebrate with Odd Socks Day

Jigsaw Jerrie and all the Jigsaw Friends are planning on joining in with Odd Socks Day – have a look at their sock choices! You can download their images to use in your school to help celebrate Anti-Bullying Week.

Inter-Faith Article

 Primary and Secondary versions available.

Our Inter-Faith Week article explores some of the opportunities and challenges when sharing and learning about different faiths in our communities. Please do share this widely with your RE lead, and other staff and members of your school community.

Inter-Faith Booklist

For schools using Jigsaw RE, we have made a useful Book List of stories which develop understanding, strategies and skills for the ’Choose Respect’ theme during Inter-faith Week.

The books recommended promote this theme by featuring role models from different Worldviews, as well as broadening people’s understanding of how others live, and what is important to them, thereby encouraging children to develop tolerance and respect for our differences and individuality.

Write with Nik : Interfaith Workshop

For Primary and Secondary ages. Join our interfaith Virtual Push-Play Workshop with writer, Nik Perring, to explore and reflect how our different worldviews have an impact on how we see our relationships and the world around us.

Additional 11-16 lessons

A 60 Minute Lesson to support further discussion on respect and exploration beyond the existing content built-in to the Jigsaw 11-16 Programme, on what we mean by 'respect' and why it is important, and an additional 2 30 Minute Form Time Activities to develop understanding.

Existing Secondary Jigsaw Lessons

We have picked out lessons that can stand alone for schools visiting the Jigsaw resources just for Anti-Bullying Week, but the content of these lessons is developed and explored further in the wider Celebrating Difference materials, to deepen children’s learning and provide opportunities to explore the themes in a meaningful way, so you may see references to other lessons in the Jigsaw materials.