Pippa loves to read

PIPPA LOVES TO READ

Pippa now has a gmail account pippalovestoread@gmail.com

She’d love to read stories children have written or look at pictures or photos children

would like to share. Anything children would like Pippa to know

she’d love to hear from you. She will endeavor to reply as

quickly as she can, but her keyboard skills are limited so please

be patient. WOOF! WOOF!

Good Citizens

Pink Shirt Day

Don't forget pink shirt day this Friday. This day is used to raised money for the Mental Health Foundation who work to eliminate bullying and help children with the long term effects of bullying. If you don't have a pink shirt, wear a wig, a tie, pink socks...anything pink! Remember to send donations to the school office. 

Click here to find out more.

Calendar Art

Every class is busy working on some wonderful art to be created into a calendar.  These make great presents and are always of really good quality.  Funds raised will go towards buying much needed ICT equipment for the school.

Pink Shirt Day - Help To Prevent Bullying

 PINK SHIRT DAY – FRIDAY 22 MAY

Pink Shirt Day is a bullying awareness campaign that gets

people talking about bullying and taking action against it.

By wearing pink on Pink Shirt Day, people around N.Z.

stand together and make a commitment to prevent and

respond to bullying. It’s a great opportunity to discuss

what bullying is, what to do about it and how to get help.

We would like everyone to wear pink and or bring a gold

coin donation to support this good cause on this day.

To help prevent bullying we first need to understand what it is...

What is Bullying?

Definitions of bullying

Bullying is when a person or a group repeatedly and intentionally uses or abuse their power to intimidate, hurt, oppress or damage someone else. It can be covert or cyber-based (happening online through social networks or even through mobile phones). Bullying can be physical or emotional.

According to the National Centre Against Bullying, there are five different kinds of bullying behaviour. They are:

1. Physical bullying: when physical actions such as hitting, poking, tripping or pushing, are used to hurt and intimidate. Repeatedly and intentionally damaging someone's belongings is also physical bullying, says the centre.

2. Verbal bullying: involves the use of negative words, like name calling, insults, homophobic or racist slurs, or words used to intentionally upset someone.

3. Social bullying: when lies, the spreading of rumours or nasty pranks are used. This includes repeated mimicking and deliberate exclusion.

4. Psychological bullying: involves the repeated and intentional use of words or actions which can cause psychological harm. Examples include intimidation, manipulation and stalking.

5. Cyber bullying: this is the big one at the moment and is when technology is used to verbally, socially or psychologically bully. It can occur in chat rooms, on social networking sites, through emails or on mobile phones.

Bullying isn't 

• mutual arguments and disagreements
• single episodes of social rejection or dislike
• single-episode acts of nastiness or spite
• random acts of aggression or intimidation

More information can be found here.