At this assembly, we would like to promote the Pink T-Shirt Day that takes place on February 24. Pink T-Shirt Day is an anti-bullying campaign started by high school students in Nova Scotia in 2007. The idea arose when a boy was bullied for wearing a pink shirt to school. A couple of students decided to use the situation to help spread awareness about bullying. The following day, everyone in the school was wearing something pink. An excerpt from the official Pink T-Shirt Day website said, “As they stood in the foyer handing out the shirts, the bullied boy walked in. His face spoke volumes. It looked like a huge weight was lifted off his shoulders,” (pinktshirtday.ca, 2015).
At CA, the MS students took an initiative to start this movement last year. We want to extend the Pink T-Shirt day into the ES section and to our community. Prior to the event, the middle school SBC members will be happy to visit the ES classrooms and introduce this movement as well as what we can do to prevent bullying and how to help the victims (targets). Please help spread awareness that bullying is not part of CA’s culture.
The assembly will start at 11:15 on February 23.
We are looking for the following:
- MCs (Leadership Club or other students who can step into the role)
- Sharing of student learning: (Possibly related to bullying prevention, showing compassion, having empathy, etc.)
- Musical, art, dramatic or dance, exhibition/performances (Grade 4, girls?)
- Message from the Principal
- MS SBC member announcement to promote the Pink T-shirt Day= (Confirmed)
- Birthday video= Confirmed (Yoshiko)
Please, let Heikki or Yuko-san know, who would like to perform and we will organize a small audition if needed, and a practice session before the assembly.
* Bailey’s idea from the CA website under the ‘Pink Day’
Bailey Shoemaker (Class of 2019):
“CA wears pink shirts to stand united against bullying. Pink T-Shirt Day is a worldwide campaign started by high school students in Nova Scotia in 2007. The idea arose when a boy was bullied for wearing a pink shirt to school. Several students decided to use the situation to help spread awareness about bullying. The following day, everyone in the school was wearing something pink. An excerpt from the official Pink T-Shirt Day website said, “As they stood in the foyer handing out the shirts, the bullied boy walked in. His face spoke volumes. It looked like a huge weight was lifted off his shoulders,” (pinktshirtday.ca, 2015).
At CA, we wanted to extend Pink T-Shirt day into our community. The middle school SBC promoted this event by having Hannah Duan, create a specially designed t-shirt for the event. These t-shirts were then sold to the middle school students and faculty members for them to wear on “Pink T-Shirt Day.” On the day of the event, we were very pleased to see the majority of the middle school students wearing something pink. Though we were very happy to have such great participation, we wanted to make sure that main focus of this event wasn’t to wear pink, but to help spread awareness that bullying is not part of CA’s culture. …”
