Stand By Me Assembly

The Stand By Me program is back at Cleveland. Teresa Triggiano has worked with most of our classes these past two weeks, and will get to the remaining classes on Wednesday and Thursday.

Today, all our Kindergarten, grade 1 and grade 2 students (and their teachers) joined Teresa and some senior students for a Stand By Me assembly. The assembly focused on teaching children how to handle some of the difficulties that arise in situations that they find themselves in while at school. They looked at: lining up, personal space bubbles and keeping hands to yourself, playing tag, taking something from a friend to bug them, and “You’re Not My Friend Anymore – by Bossy Pants.”

Some key messages from Stand By Me today were:

  • Be as Cool as a Cucumber
  • Don’t Shout – Talk it Out
  • Be Brave and Fix it

The students also contributed some good ideas when dealing with problems:

  • “Take turns”
  • “Play with someone else.”
  • “Tell a monitor.”
  • “Take a deep breath and count to 3. That’s what my Mom does.”

Thanks to Nick, Melissa, Rosie and Sebastian for their excellent work in helping our youngest students learn how they can use soft words and good behaviours to help the playgrounds and classrooms be kinder places.

Talk to your children about the assembly. We hope that we are all learning the Stand By Me lessons.

I will be posting more information about the work Teresa has done with our grades 3 to 7 students soon. Or better yet, I will ask our student bloggers to put something together for the Cleveland blog.

Take care.