Day of Pink T-Shirts

The Canadian Red Cross Day of Pink is being held on April 9, 2014. This event is about taking a stand against bullying behaviour. The Day of Pink originated in Nova Scotia in 2007. Two students heard that a boy in their school had been picked on for wearing a pink shirt to school. The students decided to take a stand against this behaviour by encouraging their classmates to wear pink. The response was overwhelming. Since then other provinces have held their own Pink Day.

Bird's Hill School will be recognizing Day of Pink on Wednesday, April 9. This year staff, students and families are able to purchase t-shirts for $5.00. Order forms are due January 28th. Thanks for organizing this Ms Wasney. What a great way to show that we all stand for respect!

Wear Pink!

The International Day of Pink           

On April 11 we had the International Day of Pink. We had it because every year on April 11 everybody around the world wears pink to stop bullying. We do this because one day in a school in Nova Scotia in 2007 a student was bullied for wearing a pink shirt so two bystanders saw what was happening so they stopped the bullying. Then after they bought fifty pink shirts and handed them out. All the kids that got a shirt wore the pink shirts on the same day then all the bullying stopped. So now on the day of pink everybody wears something pink. So it could remind others that anybody could be bullied. So today most of our school is wearing pink to represent the International  Day of Pink.   

By Ashton