Bullying is so common in our
lives that we don’t even realize that it’s happening when it does. We believe
it to be something normal, everyday thing, when it’s not. Not even close. Every
time it happens, it breaks us and rips us apart bit by bit.
Primary school students got
involved with various activities like -
assemblies, poster displays, activities
and brainstorming on ‘what a bully looks like?’, ‘where and when bullying
happens’. Short skits were performed by grade 5 students in upper primary
classes. They performed a flash mob and left classrooms with a pondering question
for the class students. They had to visualize themselves in the victim’s shoes
and try finding solutions to the underlying issues. An inter-house slogan
competition was also organized to repeat the anti-bullying message again and
again.
In primary school emotions
associated with a victim, a by-stander and a bully were debated on.”
What to do
when someone is bugging you” were worked in groups, how to fill yours and
others ‘emotional buckets’ with compliments were thought of. Students wrote
compliments for their peer and shared their belief in their talents and
virtues. A bucket full of compliments
happened. These positive messages along with a kind act towards their peer,
formed the ‘random act of kindness’ board.
All levels of students actively
participated in various activities like
a whole school assembly, various
competitions viz poster making, poetry writing, moving making, slogan writing,
anti-bullying photo commercials and anti bullying workshops. Last but not the
least secondary school students celebrated pink shirt day, symbolizing their
stand against bullying, wearing pink shirts, marching and shouting out slogans
to communicate that the school is a bully free zone and in no forms is bullying
to be accepted.
