With Rocky View Schools having next week off, students at Muriel Clayton Middle School celebrated a festive Pink Shirt Week.  

Mitchell George, Child Development Advisor at Muriel Clayton Middle School, explains how their main event for Pink Shirt Week took inspiration from an old TV show.

“We have been doing Minute To Win It. We ran that Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. We're breaking the classes down so we're following that COVID protocol, but we wanted to make sure each individual grade class had an opportunity to come down for a period.” 

The students are able to build some skills around teamwork, collaboration, and competed with each other in a friendly way throughout some Minute To Win It games. 

“We've had tons of really fun creative games; we have a cup stacking game for who could build the tallest tower. We had golf balls set up and some Nerf Guns where they have to shoot the golf balls off golf tees, we had chopsticks where you need up mini marshmallows and put them in a bowl. We also had birdie throwing and ice cream scooping.” 

kidsStudents worked together to create the tallest tower.

George continued on, “Our idea is that we're trying to have Kindness Week. We figured teamwork fits within that kindness. Teamwork builds morale, it helps them work together, encourages each other to support each other while they're going through these games.” 

Muriel Clayton School also had some other things on. Students were invited to design positive messages on paper pink shirts for the hallways.

“We also have a photo booth setup that's very pink. We encourage them to wear pink hats, bow ties, glasses, really fun, quirky stuff, then we take their photo.” 

Muriel Clayton Middle School’s Pink Day is today (Feb 18) where they encouraged all the students to wear something pink. 

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