Today was Pink Shirt Day – a day we set aside to bring awareness to bullying issues and the devastating effects it can have. This past week, we have been looking more closely at the hidden scars it can leave on people as well as how powerless it can make a person feel. We each [...]

  Grab your pink shirt! This Wednesday, February 23rd is Anti-Bullying Day, which is commonly known as Pink Shirt Day. Why Pink? This was the colour a young man wore to school one day in Nova Scotia, Canada 4 years ago. Sadly, he became a target of bullying when other individuals in the school decided that his [...]

It’s been a little while since the Ripplers created a video or slide show together, but Pink Shirt Day provided us with a great opportunity to write our own photo story about how we feel about bullying and what can be done to combat it. Using the drama concept of “tableaux vivants” which means “living picture”, we [...]

Today is Pink Shirt Day! Depending on where you live, you may or may not have heard about this extraordinary day. It all began in September 2007 in the small town of Cambridge, Nova Scotia. A Grade 9 student wore a pink polo shirt on his first day of school and became the target of threats [...]