Friday 20th November was B.L.U.E (Be Loving and Understanding to Everyone) Day at Northbourne. It was great to see so many families come to visit our anti-bullying art gallery. The art work on display was all of a very high quality, and really reinforced the message about how important it is for children to tell someone whenever they might be concerned about any form of bullying.

Our local MP, Ed Vaizey, and 2 police officers judged the competition and chose a winner from each year group. All of the winners will be framed and displayed in school for the rest of the year.

Two pupils and Mr. Shaughnessy attended a Local Authority conference at the Kassam Stadium during the week, which looked at the relatively new problem of cyber-bullying. The school council will be following this up with some work in school to raise awareness of potential problems which text messages and social networking sites like Facebook can sometimes cause. Our pupils were impeccably behaved during the day and worked really hard to plan events to run in school... well done to both of them.

BBC Radio Oxford heard about the work the school was doing, and interviewed us live on air. They were really interested to hear about everything we had been doing at Northbourne to raise awareness of this very important issue.