“Say no to bullies – go away” was the chant they devised for the march to Oxley High School, on the eighth National Day of Action Against Bullying.

Oxley High students supported their younger colleagues by welcoming them into their grounds, meeting and mingling, then marching back to Tamworth Public with them.

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Oxley students marched the last leg back to their school.

Tamworth Public School principal Chris Connor said the march showed “a solidarity with the community”.

“It’s for the children to have the opportunity to physically get out there and show everybody that within their own school community here, they’re really making a stand against bullying,” he said.

“They’re also taking the message beyond the schoolyard out into the streets, so the community can see that this is a school – like all our public schools – that stands against bullying in any form or shape or way in which it is done.”

Mr Connor said he felt Tamworth Public School was “a lovely school with great relationships between kids”.

“But we also want to make sure that we continue that message, which is why – in conjunction and partnership with Oxley High School – we’re marching to where most of these kids will go to high school, to continue that message of not accepting bullying or violence in any way in our place of learning or in the community at large.

“I think children love working and learning in a peaceful and respectful environment, and we are striving to do that in this school, as all schools are, so that the children can have a safe and happy place in which they learn.”

The march was just one of many activities held across Tamworth and the region towards the end of the school week.