This past week was anti-bullying week. The goal of this week was to bring awareness to bullying and to get people thinking about what they can do to help stand up for themselves and others.

On Wednesday, OSC did an activity to compliment the theme for the week and get our kids thinking and talking about anti-bullying. We asked everyone to take the time and write a message on a pink t-shirt cut-out about possible things they could do to stand up against bullying. 

The message read: “I will _________________ to stand up against bullying”.

Once everyone had finished they’re own message, we compiled all of them together on the board….

 

One last thing I learnt about anti-bullying week was something Dixon put in place to help bring awareness to the different forms of bullying. They designated a different colour for each day of the week to represent the different types:

Monday – red -  physical violence

Tuesday – yellow -  discrimination

Wednesday – green – cyber bullying

Thursday – blue – emotional bullying

Friday – pink – homophobia awareness

Bullying is a serious issue that everyone should be aware of and have zero tolerance towards.  As one of our kids put it: “Stand up, Look up, Speak up” - Cara

Best Regards,

Matt