Hillside Catholic Academy             

Hillside Catholic Academy where there are ‘Buddies Not Bullies’
 
Hillside Catholic Academy launched the, “Be a Buddy Not a Bully” program on Tuesday November 9.  The program encourages the students to create an environment of trust, caring and respect.  This is the brain child of work by Mrs. Angela Vasil and the Hillside Catholic Academy student government.
 
The day began with an introduction from Mrs. Vasil of the program, which was followed by each member of the student body, faculty and staff signing a poster, which also served as a pledge, entitled “Be a Buddy Not a Bully”. In the assembly the students were given two pieces of paper. On the first they wrote of a time they felt they had been bullied. The papers were collected and then destroyed as a symbol that these incidents were in the past and gone. With the second piece of paper student wrote their names, they then handed them to the student next to them. That student was to write some quality they liked about that student.
 
The student government played an active roll in explaining the importance of the program by traveling from class to class describing how each person can be a ‘Buddy not a Bully’ and thus becoming a leader.
 
To insure that the program continues a “Be a Buddy not a Bully Box” will be placed in the Main Office. Students will be encouraged to write down any incident of bullying, anonymously