Melrose’s Winthrop Elementary School Shows Support for National Bullying Prevention Month

Superintendent Cyndy Taymore is pleased to report that Winthrop Elementary School students and school members showed their support for National Bullying Prevention Month by participating in Unity Day.

Held during the month of October, National Bullying Prevention Month is a nationwide campaign founded in 2006 by the PACER Center’s National Bullying Prevention Center. The campaign aims to unite people around the world in an effort to educate and raise awareness around bullying prevention. Unity Day, the campaign’s signature event, encourages individuals and communities to wear or display orange in support of students who have been bullied.

In honor of Unity Day, Winthrop Elementary School students and school members dressed in orange and participated in Project Connect, where they created a school-wide paper chain to visually represent and promote kindness, acceptance and coming together for a common cause. To build the chain, each student was given a strip of orange paper and asked to write or draw ways they can show kindness or stand up to bullying. The orange strips of paper were then attached in a chain to join classes and grades and show the school’s solidarity against bullying.

“We’re extremely proud of our students and their efforts to stand up to bullying,” Superintendent Taymore said. “Our chain serves as a reminder that our students and community support one another and are committed to putting an end to bullying.”

For more information about National Bullying Prevention Month, Unity Day and Project Connect, visit PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center’s website.