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Malta Middle School and Elementary Students Celebrate Unity Day
Malta Elementary School students and faculty in a picture during Unity Day Wednesday, October 20, to unite against bullying. Photo Courtesy of Malta Public Schools.
Across town, at Malta Middle School students also showed their unity against bullying on Unity Day. Photo Courtesy of Malta Public Schools.
The Malta students put on their orange and held the first-ever Relay for Unity around the track on Wednesday, October 20.
The students wore orange to show unity for kindness, acceptance, and inclusion, and to send a visible message that no child should ever experience bullying. Each of the 13 elementary classes made a poster that was displayed on hurdles around the track. The posters represented what Unity Day meant to them.
Each of the classes took turns walking/running around the track at different times throughout the day. Stopping at each hurdle to see what the other classes had made.
The month of October is National Bully Prevention Month, and October 20 is nationwide Unity Day.
Malta's elementary and middle school teachers have been working bully prevention into their classroom curriculum for the entire month.
"I think the relay went really well," said MS Principal Mrs. Cederberg. "Mrs. Handley did an excellent job organizing the event. Our Middle School hallway was filled with lots of orange attire and the MS Builders Club tied orange ribbons along Central Ave. on light poles and stop signs."
Elementary School Counselor Mrs. Handley said, "This is our first-ever relay. Hopefully this is an event that will stick with the students as to why we are doing this".
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