Anti-Bullying Week Peace Project

November 20 to 24 is Anti-Bullying Week.  At Dundana, classes will be learning together about what bullying is and how we all need to stand up to it to stop it.  As part of our learning, we will have the opportunity to work as a whole school on a peace project, as inspired by the work of Sadako Sasaki.

Sadako, as an 11 year old child in Hiroshima in 1955, was battling cancer caused by the atomic bomb attack on her city a decade before.  While in hospital, she remembered the Japanese belief that said if you folded 1000 paper cranes you could make a wish.  She started folding cranes with whatever paper she could find.  Within three months, she had folded 1300 paper cranes and she wished for both healing for herself and peace throughout the world.  She died shortly after, but a memorial in her honour stands in Hiroshima with a plaque that says:  “This is our cry, This is our prayer, Peace in the world.”

Dundana students and staff will work together this week to see if we can meet our goal of making 1000 paper cranes.  We plan to make a wish for peace in our school and in the world.  Peace is something that we all have to work on together, as is anti-bullying and crane making.

We will be using some time this week to make our cranes, but also to learn about how we are all responsible for helping to create peace.  An important element of us working towards peace is understanding bullying and how to stop it.