This week I spent time with the Grade 7 discussing Cyberbullying. We focused on creating safe communities and how this ties in with our IB Mission to create a more peaceful world. We looked at how working toward global peace starts within our smaller communities. The students were quite engaged and concerned about creating a safe place to learn and all agreed to working toward making our SEK Community a peaceful place by acting as “upstanders”.
An “upstander” is someone who recognizes when something is wrong and acts to make it right. When an upstander sees or hears about someone being bullied, they speak up. Being an upstander is being a hero: we are standing up for what is right and doing our best to help support and protect someone who is being hurt. In many ways, this is another word for being socially responsible. Or to put it in IB terms we need to be principled, caring and risk takers!!
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