Gr12Leadership: November 2011

I think the things like the "word wall" are really great ideas. Other things we could do would be to make an anonymous comment drop box, similar to the filming idea, of just letting people write about anything

Having our own school ideas or even re-creating or re modeling the ideas from the challenge day is what our school needs to look for in creating a anti bullying week or day.

My idea for challenge week would be to do a activity lunch, what you would do is you would go to the cafeteria and get one person to stand up and say, "look at the person sitting next to you, you think you know them right? well what happens if I told you that they suffer from depression.... what happens if that depression would make them commit suicide in the future? how would you feel? you might not believe me but depression isn't always obvious, people can hide it. So next time you look at someone, or make a comment just think of what they might be going through even if its not depression it might be something else, something that is hurting them, physically or emotionally..." Then they would just walk out of the cafeteria. I think by doing something along these lines you would make people think. I think it could make people realize that you can't judge someone by what you see on the outside, because it might not be what it looks like on the inside.

My idea for challenge week is an idea that can involve the entire school, with no cost required. It's a little thing, and I don't think that it will take that much organization, but my idea is "Appreciation Grams". We can have paper hearts, or little cards that students can fill out (made available to them at lunch via the cafeteria lobby or front lobby) and address to a friend or someone in their class. They simply compliment or tell the person why they appreciate them, and let us know who their first teacher contact is. At the end of the week we can hand out the Appreciation Grams. So that this is not a popularity thing, I think that our leadership classes can make general Appreciation Grams so that everyone gets one :) I think it'd be something small to lighten someone's day. It's similiar to the post it note idea that we did before, but just with a bigger group, and a bigger purpose.
For Challenge Week I think it would be cool to do something like we have done for White Ribbon and Sea of Pink in the past. We could ask everyone to take the pledge against bullying and they could sign their name on a strip of paper. Then we can make a chain out of them and put it through the hallways or in the cafeteria or library. Somewhere where it would get noticed, but not destroyed. Or we could make posters. Each poster would have a different student on it and it would say something that they promise to do to improve how they treat people. So, if we had paper and they glued/taped their picture on to it and then wrote a quick statement. We could put them up around the school.