Pink Shirt Day... anti-bullying!

Well, today was a little different for most of the kids. We talked, we questioned, and we discussed bullying. We used a few of the techniques learned by Ms. B. at the Thinking and Questioning PD last Friday like '3-2-1' where we distill our thinking down by sharing, comparing and discarding the less relevant ideas. We came up with slogans of our own to stamp out bullying, we tried to work out why people might bully in the first place, we did some creative role playing and recorded these on the ipads with the help of some super helpful kids from Room 12. The videos are 'rough' but you get the gist of our day...

Meanies

Bullying

No Bully

Sons of Gallipoli rehearsal

ANZAC singers in final rehearsal... pretty good!!!
Well done, girls! You were spectacularly good at our assembly!! I'm proud of you!

Sons of Gallipoli rehearsal

Something to watch...

The Berry Boys - you may need to sign in!
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/ondemand/the-berry-boys/null

We have bunting!!

Day Two poppies

Sewing the ANZAC bunting

Wow, so if I'd ever thought this would work so well I'd have done it much sooner!! A huge thanks to the parental units who came to help thread needles and gently guide the kids!! I do believe I would have lost some of my sanity trying to do all of that by myself!
A big thank you also to Mrs. Buckley who edged every flag beautifully and gave us a quick sewing lesson.
Here are the flags at the end of 'Day One'. I am super-proud of all the kids who've done some pretty good sewing, especially for first timers!!

ANZAC

http://www.abc.net.au/innovation/gallipoli/gallipoli2.htm#