October 25 - 29, 2017
Be the Change Project:
The students had worked to together to create an awareness about the power of words, and the language that we use. They had created a presentation accompanied with activities that were focused towards grade 5 and 6 students to emphasize the effect of words on people, and how they can focus on using positive words in their everyday lives.
March 2 - 6, 2015
Be the Change Project
Focus on creating awareness about discrimination in the school to help younger students learn from gr. 9’s – the future leaders of the school. Activity was to ask students to react to a situations of positive or negative interaction by drawing a picture of the situations – and then drawing a more positive response to the situation
2012
Be the Change Project:
Bonnyville High participants had a goal to focus on bullying and racism over several days.They did this by:
1. Putting up posters around the school that showed either broken hearts with harmful words on them, or there was whole hearts with kind words written on them.
2. Presenting to an eighth grade class from a nearby middle school about how we can change bullying, and hurtful language. This presentation is available here
Fall 2011
Be the Change Project: anit-bullying
The group created a week long project. It started with posters around the school that have the mean words that are commonly said (but people don't actually know the real definition) along with the definitions, they were displayed all week. There were also videos and a PowerPoint about anti-bullying and anti-racism playing on the TVs around the school/ student area.
The group gave presentations in pairs to all the grade nine classes about the consequences of bullying and how being nice to each other makes everyone feel better. They had different activities, for example this self esteem booster: they told everyone to write their name on a piece of paper, then those papers were passed around the class whereby everyone wrote a complement based on who they are inside. They also played a jeopardy style game about bullying.
On the final day we all had fake wounds along with labels and hurtful words on their bodies and faces to show that words hurt. That afternoon Cory Johnson presented to everyone in the school, and before he began, there was a slideshow of photos from camp and the song, Born This Way by Lady Gaga playing while the students arrived.
