POSITIVE FOOTPRINTS

TF students team up to prevent bullying

 

November 14, 2019

Annie Wooden

POSITIVE IMPACT - School counselor Rob Christensen talks with Thompson Falls elementary and junior high students on what it means to have a positive impact on their school and community.

Thompson Falls students last week learned what it means to be positive role models and leave positive footprints at school and in the community.

Students in grades K-8 on last Wednesday attended an assembly led by counselor Rob Christensen. They watched a video presented by the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program. The video encouraged students to "be an upstander to help stop bullying. Do something about it."

Annie Wooden

Christensen then led kids in an activity to help them make a difference in the community and school. Crystal Buchanan with Sanders County Coalition for Families brought art supplies. Older and younger students were matched for the art project in which they traced and decorated their footprints, then wrote an encouraging message on the footprints. Christensen encouraged the students to write positive "do this" messages instead of negative "don't do this" messages. The students then posted one footprint somewhere in the school and the others will be displayed at businesses throughout Thompson Falls.

Some of the messages written by students included "Be the reason someone smiles today," "Life is tough but so are you" and "Be an upstander."

Christensen said that the school completed the footprint project in previous years, but this year they are doing it earlier in the school year so that the footprints can hang throughout the community throughout the school year. He said that students will participate in a different Olweus activity each quarter.

 

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