Athens College Elementary, Junior High and High School students participated in a series of actions and attended presentations aimed at raising awareness and mobilizing them against all forms of bullying.

See below some of the activities that took place in the school units to acknowledge the recent International STAND UP to Bullying Day 2021:

Athens College Elementary School created a unique video with all the students’ messages about school bullying that are posted around Bodossakeio School.  The messages are written in all the languages that the children of the School speak, sending a resounding NO to violence and school bullying stand.

Psychico College Elementary School students attended a presentation by the Psychoeducational Department detailing all the forms of school bullying and how to deal with them.  The students then drew an outline of the palm of their hand on a piece paper and on each finger wrote something that they believe with help them or someone else.

Within the framework of the I.B. Middle Years Programme, Athens College Junior High School students this year preoccupied themselves with the prevention and handling of bullying incidents. Junior High School 7th graders prepared a presentation on the definition and types of bullying, 8th graders an online guide to deal with the phenomenon, and 9th graders a blog for the prevention and handling of cyberbullying.

Psychico College Junior High School’s Bully Busters Club each year organizes activities that inform members of the student community about school bullying.  The Bully Busters’ action was included in this year’s UNESCO video on school bullying.  Our students were among dozens of students, teachers and parents from the world who addressed the topic of bullying and how to manage it.

Athens College High School student joined in an action that “The Smile of the Child” organized in view of International Day against Violence and Bullying at School.  They were photographed forming the words “SPEAK UP NOW,” thus spreading in their own unique way the organization’s central campaign slogan aimed at raising awareness and mobilizing students, teachers, and parents on the issue of school bullying.

Psychico College High School students watched a video created by the School’s Committee against School Bullying, which presented two indicative incidents of school bullying and ways to handle them.  The core message of the video was that students should not remain indifferent to bullying incidents, but should instead take a stand to grapple with them. The students then discussed the matter amongst each other.