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To sustain the momentum initiated by the series of Make The Difference Conferences the Anti Bullying Alliance (ABA) is launching an Anti-Bullying week in November. Various activities are being planned during the week to raise awareness and to encourage people to Tell Someone and to Be Someone to Tell.

Click here to view the schedule of activities for Anti-Bullying Week.

The National Anti-Bullying Poetry Competition, launched during Anti-Bullying Week, 22 to 26 November 2004, highlights the campaign. It is open to all pupils and asks them to use their imagination and creativity to write poems on the theme of anti-bullying. The regional winners' poems, including the overall primary winner and the overall secondary winner, plus the overall special school winner and the overall staff winner, will appear in a special anthology, to be published during 2005.

The four overall winners will also receive an additional prize of a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LC80 digital camera each. Ideal for amateur photographers, this state-of-the-art model is easy to use, can capture moving as well as still images and features 5 Megapixels and a 3x optical zoom. Each of the winners' schools will receive a Panasonic TX-28DTX1 16:9 widescreen, flat picture integrated digital TV. Features of this superb set include Nicam Digital stereo sound and child lock. For more information about the products, go to www.panasonic.co.uk

For further details on the competition please click here