Dear Parent or Guardian,

All Together: united against bullying

Frizington Community Primary School is embarking on the All Together anti-bullying programme provided by the Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA). ABA is a charity that works to reduce bullying in schools. It is based at the National Children’s Bureau (NCB).

In order to make sure that we are doing all we can to prevent and reduce bullying and to improve pupil wellbeing, we want to find out the levels of bullying in our school and to find out how our pupils feel about school. For this reason, we are inviting pupils at our school in years Y3-Y6 to complete an anonymous survey. We will then ask pupils to complete the questionnaire again at the end of the programme.

The following information is important since it will explain about the survey and how the information gathered will be used.

Why we are writing to parents/carers

We are asking for your permission for your child to be invited to complete the survey questionnaire.  If you do not wish for your child to participate then please let us know by Monday 16^th November.

If you give consent for your child to participate, completing the survey is still up to them. Please be reassured that you or your child choosing not to take part in the survey will not disadvantage you or your child in any way.

Why has my child been asked to take part and what will they do?

The survey has been specially designed by the Anti-Bullying Alliance for all pupils in years 3 and above. It is an online survey which should take about 15 minutes to complete. The answers your child gives to the questionnaire will not be seen by their friends, teachers or you unless your child chooses an adult to help them complete the questionnaire.

What will happen with the information that your child gives us?

All information collected will be kept confidential and will be encrypted and carefully stored by on a secure system held by the Anti-Bullying Alliance in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018, the UK's implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Neither schools, nor the Anti-Bullying Alliance will ever have access to pupils’ individual completed questionnaires – only year group or whole year reports which are sent back to them with anonymous information.

For further details of how data about your child will be collected, stored and analysed, please see the Data Protection Privacy Notice (Appendix 1).

Schools will not have access to individual completed questionnaires and whole year group reports will be sent back to them anonymously.

Some of the headline results may be shared with key people, like the school’s governors and Ofsted. Again this information is anonymised and it will not be possible to identify any individual pupils.

If you are unsure about whether you would like your child to take part and you have some questions about the survey, you are welcome to contact me at School for further information.

Sarah Rose