Students at École Glenbrook Middle School arrived on Wednesday morning to find a special message posted on their lockers.
Things like “You brighten the world,” “You’re amazing” and “Be you” were written on post-it notes and stuck on all 630 lockers in the school as part of the leadership club’s Anti-Bullying Day post-it blitz. The idea was to have all the notes in place by the time students showed up in the morning, so they started the day off in a positive way, Natalia Fuentes told the Record.
“A lot of people at school, they don’t think about what they’re saying and what words they’re putting into the minds of others until maybe it’s too late, so this really reminds us to just be kind and generous to others, and to be really careful with what you say,” said the Grade 8 student.
Fuentes was among about 20 students from the leadership club that volunteered to come to school early to put up the post-it notes. School counsellor Jane Osborne, who leads the club of kids in grades 6 to 8, said it was the students’ idea to do the blitz to mark Anti-Bullying Day.
“They’re the ones who wanted to do it,” Osborne said, adding the kids used their lunch hour on Monday to write all the messages in advance.
For Fuentes, she hoped the action would have a big impact on her classmates.
“I’m hoping that everyone is surprised, and that they really take this as a moment to reflect on what they’re saying and just be kind to others,” she said.
