Students and teachers at Hoppers Crossing Secondary College donned orange and participated in a range of activities last week for the National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence.
HCSC joined schools across the country on Friday August 18 in participating in Australia’s key bullying prevention initiative for education providers.
“This was a wonderfully colourful, student led awareness raising opportunity for our school community,” said deputy principal Julia McCahon.
“We had a range of learning activities planned – with every student making a pledge to tackle bullying.”
Students engaged in these activities while sporting the day’s traditional orange colour scheme and following its theme for 2023 ‘growing connections.’
Among the activities reflecting this theme was a clubs fair, where students learnt about and signed up to different lunchtime clubs on offer at the school, providing them an opportunity to build peer connections and find like minded people.
Year 7 and 8 students performed a production of ‘Wired’, while some year 12 VCE-VM students developed and delivered anti-bullying lessons to year 9 classes.
The lessons were aimed at building their knowledge of the difference between being a ‘bystander’ and an ‘upstander’ and were well received.
Almost 70 per cent of Australian schools participated in the 2022 National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence and it’s anticipated the 2023 event will have matched or even exceeded that figure.
Cade Lucas.
