Over 200 students at West Sechelt Elementary School (WSES) got excited about kindness on Pink Shirt Day, Feb. 22.
Students donned red and pink in honour of the anti-bullying day that was started in Nova Scotia in 2007 when two male students devised a way to support a peer who was harassed for wearing a pink shirt on the first day of school. The boys bought about 50 pink T-shirts from a local thrift store and had all their friends wear them to school in support of the bullied teen the next day. It worked, and the idea caught on all across Canada.
Students at WSES watched a video about the history of Pink Shirt Day and some shared their own thoughts about what being kind means to them.
At the end of the assembly students were challenged by their principal to do at least one act of kindness that day “and possibly every day after that.”
