Students at the Prestige Private School in Toronto Move to Stop Bullying
We strongly urge all our students to interact, to reveal compassion and to take responsibility, so that bullying will not be an issue in our private school in toronto, school in toronto, prep school toronto.
Bullying awareness week
Ontario has designated the week starting on the 3rd Sunday of November as Bullying Awareness and Avoidance Week to assist promote safe schools and a positive learning environment.
Throughout Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week-- November 17-23, 2013-- the Prestige School has set up many various activities for students to find out more about bullying and its impact on student learning and well-being.
Bullying means a type of duplicated, persistent and aggressive behavior directed at a specific or individuals that is planned to cause (or should be understood to cause) fear and distress and harm to another individual’s body, feelings, self-worth or reputation. Bullying takes place in a context where there is a genuine or perceived power imbalance.
On Tuesday, November 19th, we have welcomed the police officer to come to our school and give informative sessions for students in different grades. From 11:20 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. the officer will certainly talk with our Kindergarten to grade 3 students. Students from grades 4 to 6 will certainly have their informative session from 11:50 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Students from grades 7 to 12 will certainly have the opportunity to talk with our visitor from 2:00 to 2:45 p.m.
Our teachers have prepared different workshops and activities, that will occur on Friday, November 22nd, after lunch, on the results of bullying, and the ways in which students can safeguard themselves and stand up to bullies.
On Tuesday, November 26th, Officer Neil Pickrell came over our school to talk with us about the best ways to be respectful members of our school neighborhood. He shared ideas about ways to avoid, prevent and reduce bullying in our hallways and in our class. He even showed us some fascinating videos and songs to assist us bear in mind that it is cool to be kind in school!
This Friday was the conclusion to a week long focus on bullying, ways to determine it, handle it, and avoid it. During 5th period, students in addition to their peers, had a possibility to interact with the subject of bullying in brand-new and amazing means.
Grades 1 to 3 begun by attempting to form a meaning of what bullying appear like by specifying the ways in which we experience it. In groups, students composed on big pieces of board exactly what bullying appearances, sounds, feels, tastes as well as smells like. We were amazed at the informative answers that they produced!
Students also had the chance to experience exactly what the long term effects of bullying are through a hands on activity. Groups were asked to trace the body of among their colleagues onto newsprint. The print on the newspaper, we told them stood for the personal story that each person has. Next, groups were asked to utilize a tube of cinnamon toothpaste to draw x’s all over their person. Students determined that these x’s stood for bullying acts, and hence positioned them where bullying harms most, on their arms, their brains and their heart. Lastly we asked students to do exactly what the majority of bullies attempt to do, and reclaim their x’s. The students understood that putting toothpaste back in television was just as hard as removing the impacts of teasing and taunting.