Girls’ wellbeing initiative making an impact in Northland
11 May 2023

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Another successful Bullying-Free NZ Week has come to a close. Hundreds of schools took part up and down the country – students worked hard at a variety of bullying-themed activities and many schools took the opportunity to look at their policies.
Some took the whole week to talk about bullying, teaching a different aspect each day to build on students’ understanding of what bullying is and how to play an active role in preventing bullying at their school.
At Carterton School in Wairarapa, there was a focus on the role of the bystander and empowering students to act when they saw bullying happening. The school’s Team Kōwhai work group produced an anti-bullying video with their teacher, which was viewed widely on social media (goo.gl/drGSPH), and many other schools made videos portraying the impact of bullying on the target, giving students the chance to explore and understand how it feels.
“The children across the school were helped to learn how to stand up against bullying because of the video Team Kōwhai made,” says principal Alison Woollard.
Other schools marked the week with random acts of kindness, sharing positive comments on post-it notes, special school assemblies, and open mic sessions.
Pink Shirt Day rounded off the week. Many celebrated with mufti days, pink cupcake sales and sausage sizzles to show their support.
This year a record 494 New Zealand schools took part in Pink Shirt Day, and on 26 May #pinkshirtday was the second highest trending Twitter hashtag after #Budget2017, with a whole range of companies, organisations and individuals joining schools in showing their support for a bullying-free New Zealand.
BY Education Gazette editors
Education Gazette | Tukutuku Kōrero, reporter@edgazette.govt.nz
Posted: 8:15 pm, 12 June 2017
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