Pink Shirt Day 2021

Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu, Mauri Tū, Mauri Ora – Speak Up, Stand Together, Stop Bullying! Is the official message for Pink Shirt Day.

Where It All Started

Pink Shirt Day is celebrated worldwide annually, and it all began in Canada in 2007 when 2 students stood up for one of their peers who was being bullied for wearing a pink shirt. Pink Shirt Day’s Kaupapa is to make schools, workplaces, and communities places where everyone can feel safe, loved, and valued.

Friday 21st of May is when we celebrated Pink Shirt Day here in Aotearoa, so we had the pleasure of putting on a free sausage sizzle lunch at Glen Innes School. We cooked up over 200 sausages to feed about 150 hungry students. Everyone loves a free lunch, so it was an awesome opportunity to not only feed everyone at school, but also have a talk about why bullying does not belong at school, or in any part of the community and within their whanau.