HAWKS ARE STRONG TOGETHER AGAINST BULLYING AND DRUGS! 

October is an important month—it contains both National Bullying Prevention Month and Red Ribbon Week.  To celebrate both, this year our students will be challenged to be STRONG TOGETHER against bullying behaviors and drug abuse.  Students will be challenged to flex their kindness, physical, creative and bravery muscles to stop bullying before it can happen, and to protect themselves and their friends against drug abuse. 

Throughout October guidance counselors Lisa German and Shawn Einarson will visit classrooms to conduct lessons in recognizing, stopping, and preventing bullying behaviors and in avoiding drug abuse.  As part of these lessons, each classroom will sign a pledge to show that they, as a class, will be STRONG TOGETHER against bullying and drugs.   

Here are some other ways we can be STRONG TOGETHER to prevent bullying this fall: 

• On October 1st, students, teachers, and staff will wear red white and blue to show that we are strong together against bullying.  Colorful shirts, nail polish, socks, hair accessories and bandannas are encouraged! 

• Each week in October, students will receive a specific challenge designed to encourage them to practice inclusion and kindness, and to stand up to bullying. 
• Students will sign mini pledges—also perfectly sized as bookmarks—as reminders that they can make Hawks Rise a bully-free school. 

Here are some ways we can be STRONG TOGETHER in learning about drug abuse prevention. 

• Celebrate Red Ribbon Week: October 28th-November 1st 
• Monday is Strong Together Against Drugs! (Wear red) 

• Tuesday is Sock it to Drugs! (Wear silly socks) 
• Wednesday is Team up Against Drugs! (Team shirts) 
• Thursday is Say "Boo" to Drugs!" (Character book dress up day) 
• Friday is Friends don't let Friends do Drugs! (Wear school shirts or Nest colors) 

Families, we would love for you to join us so that we can be even stronger together against bullying and drugs.  Ask your child what he or she learned about stopping bullying in the classroom.  Remind them that growing bodies and minds deserve to be drug free.  Join us in teaching your child that kindness, inclusion, and courage can help us all stop bullying and drug abuse from happening not just in October, but all year long.