Spreading Positive Messages: Challenge Morning

After getting creative and painting pictures frames, our Grade 7 students attended a Compliment Web session. They each wrote their name down on a piece of paper and then passed it around so everyone could write down compliments for each other. This workshop showed them how being kind to one another spreads positivity, can build meaningful relationships and has the ability to make others happy.

The students also had fun participating in a workshop focused on social media kindness. They were given a template of a cell phone screen and made a pledge to only spread positive messages on social media. This activity paired well with a workshop they attended last month from the National Eating Disorder Information Centre on body image and the negative effects of social media. Both workshops reiterated the classic saying, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all.”

Meanwhile, our Grade 8 students participated in various organizational games and activities that encouraged them to work together as a team. They supported each other on the rock wall and competed in different challenges including an ‘extreme difficulty math challenge’ where the winners who solved the math problem first, won a tasty fruit smoothie.

We couldn’t help but notice the big smiles on their faces when they were supporting one another and sharing their acts of kindness in all of the Challenge Morning activities.