Preventing Bullying Through Awareness
and Action
Bullying affects learning, belonging and wellbeing across whole communities.
This practical course helps educators build a safe, inclusive and anti-bias culture where bullying is prevented early and responded to with consistency and care.
Duration
6 hours
2 x 3-hr sessions
Format
Live online training
Price
£210 + VAT
Designed for
Educators in primary and
secondary schools
Preventing bullying through awareness and action
Overview
Across two practical sessions, you’ll build a clear, shared understanding of what bullying is, and what it’s not. You’ll explore how bullying can show up in different forms, including online, and look at the three positions often present in bullying situations.
Using Thrive’s relational approach, you’ll learn how to respond with warm authority, pairing accountability with care, and communicating consistently with children and young people, colleagues, parents and carers, governors and wider partners.
You’ll also use an Anti-bullying Audit and action planning tool to identify your setting’s strengths and priorities. From there, you’ll turn your findings into a focused plan with clear ownership, timeframes and simple ways to measure progress. By the end of the course, you’ll have practical next steps you can embed straight into policy, curriculum and everyday practice.
Preventing bullying through awareness and action
Benefits
Build a clearer, more consistent approach to preventing and responding to bullying across your setting. This course gives you practical tools, shared language and a relational framework to help create safer, more inclusive communities where children and young people feel they belong.
- Develop shared language for defining bullying and distinguishing it from peer conflict.
- Build confidence in recognising patterns, drivers and impact, with a focus on fairness and inclusion.
- Understand how bullying can affect children’s sense of safety, belonging and wellbeing.
- Learn practical ways to respond, follow up and communicate consistently.
- Explore how to pair accountability with care using Thrive’s relational approach.
- Leave with tools and next steps you can use straight away in your setting.
- Create a more consistent whole-setting approach to preventing and responding to bullying.
- Strengthen anti-bullying policy, procedures, recording and reporting.
- Improve confidence across mixed staff teams, including leaders, pastoral teams, teachers and support staff.
- Build safer, more inclusive routines, relationships and learning environments.
- Turn audit findings into a clear action plan with owners, timeframes and simple measures of progress.
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Programme details
What you'll learn
Across two practical sessions, you’ll explore what bullying is, how it can show up, and how to respond in ways that are consistent, fair and rooted in care. You’ll also look at how to strengthen prevention through policy, everyday practice and whole-setting action.
You’ll explore:
- What bullying is, and how to distinguish it from peer conflict.
- How bullying can show up in different forms, including online.
- The three positions often present in bullying situations.
- The patterns, drivers and impact of bullying through an inclusive lens.
- How Thrive’s relational and developmental approach can support prevention and response.
- How to respond with warm authority, pairing accountability with care.
- How to communicate consistently with children and young people, colleagues, parents and carers, governors and wider partners.
- How to use audit findings to shape policy, curriculum and everyday practice.
What you'll gain
You’ll leave with practical resources and a clearer plan for change, including shared language, a completed Anti-bullying Audit and prioritised next steps you can use straight away in your setting.
You will leave with:
- Shared, policy-ready language for defining bullying.
- Greater confidence in recognising patterns, drivers and impact.
- Practical communication approaches for responding and following up.
- A completed Anti-bullying Audit.
- A prioritised action plan with clear owners, dates and success measures.
- Actionable next steps that can be used across your setting.
How the course works
The course is delivered through two linked virtual training sessions designed for educators working in primary and secondary settings.
You’ll explore:
- Practical guidance on identifying, preventing and responding to bullying.
- Guided use of the Anti-bullying Audit and action planning tool.
- Reflection on your setting’s policy, curriculum, reporting routes and everyday practice.
- Practical planning to create clear next steps, owners, timeframes and measures of progress
Training is practical and implementation-focused, helping you turn learning into a clear plan that supports consistent practice across your setting.
Course duration: 6 hours (two 3-hour sessions)
Preventing bullying through awareness and action
Who this course is for
This course is designed for educators working in primary and secondary settings, and no prior Thrive training is needed.
It's also highly relevant for Thrive Licensed Practitioners, who will receive 10 Thrive CPD points towards relicensing.
The training is ideal for:
- Senior leaders and governors
- DSLs and pastoral teams
- Teachers and teaching assistants
- Support staff
- Lunchtime and wraparound teams
- Inclusion, behaviour, safeguarding and wellbeing leads
- Anyone involved in creating safe, inclusive school communities
We have seen first-hand the impact that Thrive has had on children, their families and the staff at our school.”
Selina Frazer
Co-Headteacher, Hunters Hall Primary School
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Choose your start date
Choose a start date below and book the option that works best for your school.
Our September 2026 start dates
PA10334 - Preventing bullying through awareness and action
Start date: 18th September 2026
End date: 25th September 2026
2 Sessions
50 Places left
£210 ex VAT
Session dates:
- Fri 18th September 2026 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Fri 25th September 2026 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
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Fees & next steps
Course fee: £210 + VATChoose a training date above to view the full session schedule and book your place.
Commission whole-setting CPD
This training also works well as whole-setting CPD for mixed staff groups who want to build a shared, consistent approach to preventing and responding to bullying.
If you’d like to commission this course for your team or organisation, call us on 01392 797555.
Yes. It works well as whole-setting CPD for mixed staff groups, including leaders, governors, pastoral teams, teachers, support staff and lunchtime or wraparound teams.
If you’d like to commission this course for your team or organisation, call us on 01392 797555.
You’ll leave with shared language, practical response approaches, a completed Anti-bullying Audit and a prioritised action plan for your setting.
Yes. The two sessions are linked, so you’ll need to attend both to get the full benefit of the course.
No. You don’t need access to Thrive-Online to attend this training. The course is open to Thrive and non-Thrive settings, and no prior Thrive training is required.
Yes. This training is relevant for Thrive Licensed Practitioners and is worth 10 Thrive CPD points towards relicensing. It will help you apply Thrive’s relational and developmental approach to bullying prevention and response, while giving you practical tools to strengthen whole-setting policy, practice and action planning.