What is your SAVE Chapter doing for America's Safe Schools Week, National SAVE Day and the National SAVE Rock-A-Thon?

For National S.A.V.E. week we will have daily announcements regarding students who have been bullied or involved in any kind of violence during the school year. On national S.A.V.E. day we will have a moment of silence for all the lives lost in 2010-2011 due to any kind of violence.We will also release 21 purple and orange balloons in honor of Alex Orange. On the 22 we will rap it all up with the big rock-a-thon. The next week we are doing red ribbon week. Monday is Camo-day, Tuesday is Put a Hat on Drug & Violence, Wednesday is Pajama day, Thursday is Be a Team player, and to rap it up Friday is Spook Away Drugs & Violence. On the 25 we will be having a play against violence. ~ Brady Ledbetter, Ira High School, Ira, TX

For Americas Safe School Week, our SAVE chapter at Highland School of Technology has several events planned. To kick off the week, we will be placing orange and purple ribbons on the locker. For every 4 lockers, 3 will have orange ribbons, and 1 will have a purple ribbon. This represents that 1 in 4 students will be effected by violence this year. On Tuesday we will have Mix-It-Up day at lunch. Students will pick a color and sit at the table with the table cloth that corresponds with their chosen color. For the SAVE rally, we will show the Alex Orange video, followed by a short skit. After the skit, students will come up and read their "I believe" statements. Finally, to wrap up Americas Safe Schools Week, we will hold the "Rock-a-Thon" at a local nursing home. We chose to do a nursing home because we felt we could incorporate two community outreach events into one. ~ Jaclyn Morton, Highland School of Technology, Gastonia, NC

The Cuthbertson High School SAVE chapter will be making announcements about safe schools week each day, and putting up posters to make our student body aware of National SAVE Day. On October 19th, National SAVE Day, everyone is supposed to wear orange and purple in support of SAVE and Alex Orange. We traditionally hand out colored beads and give awards to the students who are the most spirited. It’s always a lot of fun, and the more involved you get the better the experience! ~ Jessica Weber, Cuthbertson High School, Waxhaw, NC

2010-2011 Responses:

We are currently addressing drugs and alcohol. ~ Morgan Kowitz, Wilmot Union High School, Genoa City, WI

The Oak Hill Elementary SAVE Chapter, in its inaugural year initiated the “Sign the SAVE Pledge” Campaign during America Safe School Week. On, October 20, 2010, National SAVE Day, member, Ayanna Peacock shared the 30 Second Public Service Announcement on the School’s morning show. Members conducted “lunch and learn” by showing the SAVE video and handing out SAVE materials in the cafeteria. The chapter also conducted a Poster Contest for grades K-2, and an Essay Contest for grades 3-5. The Theme was “How to Make the World a Better Place”. The poster contest winner was 1st grader Erin Martinez and the essay contest winner was 5th grader Kassie Johnson. The winners received SAVE T-Shirts. The Oak Hill SAVE Chapter culminated its recognition of Violence Prevention and Drug Prevention weeks by sponsoring a SAVE Dance at the end of Red Ribbon Week Friday, October 30th. Guest speakers at the Dance were City Councilman Michael D. Pugh, and Ms. Gretta Bush, the President of High Point Community Against Violence (HPCAV). The posters were also on display for viewing and SAVE member Asia Tomlin read the winning essay in Kassie’s absence. Admission for the SAVE Dance was $1.00 with a canned good, and $2.00 without a canned good. Portion of the proceeds will go to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The cans collected will initiate the chapter's canned food, dry beans and rice drive (classroom competition). The non perishable items will go to Salvation Army Kans for Kids Campaign. ~ Oak Hill Elementary, High Point, NC.

Mukwonago High School SAVE Presents: America’s Safe Schools Week: October 15-22, 2010
Join us for a week of awareness and fun!
Friday, Oct. 15th: Football game half time balloon release in remembrance of victims of school-related violence. SAVE members (and anyone else who want one for $7) will be wearing T-shirts to commemorate the lives lost in school-related violence over the last twenty years.
M-F: Lunch pledge sign-up/lollipop + message & purple and orange bead giveaway.
Monday: SAVE members will create a chalk mural on the front sidewalks.
Tuesday: Lunch contest.
Wednesday: National SAVE Day: Homeroom: Standing up to bullying.
Thursday: Lunch contest.
Friday: Orange and purple day - the first hour class with the highest percentage of orange and purple wins a treat from SAVE. Rock-a-Thon! SAVE members will collect pledges then team up to “rock” the night away (in rocking chairs). This event is open to all students and will be held in the South gym from 8 pm to midnight. There will be games, food, prizes, movies, music, and more! See Mrs. Dianich (249), Mrs. Bachofen (112), or Mrs. Toshner (252) for more information or to join SAVE. ~ Ms. Sarah Dianish, Mukwonago High Schook, Mukwonago, WI

Belmont Middle School SAVE CLUB will have the staff and students wearing orange or purple on Wednesday October 20th, the SAVE club has made signs and they are hanging all over school. We have been on our TV and announced to the school about the different ways our school is safe. The SAVE club has been doing alot to let everyone know how important school safety is. Thank you. ~ PJ Gorton, LSC Coordinator, Belmont Middle School, Belmont, NC

To promote the event, the MHS SAVE chapter has organized activities throughout the week, starting with a balloon release at the Oct. 15 football game to commemorate lives lost to school violence, and culminating with its third annual Rockathon on Oct. 22. SAVE members will collect pledges and "rock the night away" at MHS in rocking chairs while enjoying games, movies, food and prizes. Members will rock in chairs throughout Mukwonago to kick off Safe Schools Week and collect donations to bring early intervention programs to the high school, such as Challenge Day. Additionally, MHS will have daily activities throughout the week promoting anti-bullying, nonviolence and creating awareness, including assemblies from ARCh (Association for the Rights of Citizens with handicaps). ~ Mukwonago High School, Mukwonago, WI

For America’s safe school week my SAVE chapter plans are, to challenge each SAVE member to go buddy up with somebody they do not know. Coordinate a nonviolence pledge signing to make our school and community safer. My SAVE chapter will not be participating in the Rock-O-Thon. ~ Nigel Cox, Farmville Central High School, Farmville, NC

For America’s Safe Schools Week we plan to hand out candies saying quotes like, "Don't Punch, have a Sour Punch instead", put purple and orange ribbons on car antennas in our student and faculty parking lots, have a peace pledge competition where the class that has the most pledges win a prize, Fallen Warrior day to represent all the past classmates who have passed away due to violence, and also having a penny drive for our crime stoppers program. On National SAVE Day the SAVE chapter plans to decorate all doors in the building to promote peace as you walk into a room and have a informational table during lunch. ~ Candy Gonzalez, Montbello High School, Denver, CO

For Safe Schools Week we hope to conduct a school seminar on remaining a safe school, and what a safe school is. For National SAVE day the whole school wears orange and purple ribbons and receive fact sheets. ~ John Scott, West Charlotte High School, Charlotte, NC

For America’s Safe Schools week our chapter will make morning announcements to explain what SAVE is & make a banner for students to pledge on. For National SAVE Day we are encouraging the students to wear orange and purple and the chapter will conduct awareness activities. ~ Casey Story, Garner High School, Garner, NC

America safe school week actually fell on the week of homecoming and the school already had plans for that week, and they won’t allow us to have multiple school wide functions on the same week. So as an alternative we moved it to the next week which is Red Ribbon week, we will conduct all of our activities then. The activities that are planned are themed days where everyone will dress up to the various themes, such as “put a cap on drugs” where everyone will wear their craziest hat. One day during the week my chapter will be producing a play titled “One Voice” the play will simulate an act of ongoing school violence towards an unpopular high school girl which will ultimately lead to her own suicide. The following day we will also be presenting a memorial to the mother of a young lady that graduated from Ira High School and was murdered a few years later due to a selfish act of violence! During the week we will also be informing students on cyber bullying. For National SSAVE Day we will perform our annual release of purple and orange balloons in remembrance of Alex Orange. ~ JP Wilson, Ira High School, Ira, TX

For National SAVE day we will be doing a peer dediation for our new and former members and anyone who wants to do peer mediation. ~ Carl Miles, Laney High School, Wilmington, NC

2009-2010 Responses

Younger students wear ribbons and attend little classes about staying away from drugs, alcohol, and violence. The high schoolers have days that we dress up differently on and we have a big performance and guest speaker who talks about some good issues. ~ Hannah Froh, Chandler High School, Chandler, OK.

As one of the advisors of the SAVE Club at Lawrence Junior High School in Las Vegas, I wanted to share what we were doing to celebrate National SAVE Day. We are actually celebrating the entire week, since it is also America's Safe Schools Week. Our schedule is as follows:

Monday - Oct. 19, 2009:

• Wear purple and orange day

Tuesday - Oct. 20, 2009:

• Bullying/Violence Prevention Creating Writing Contest (in conjunction with National Writing Day). Top 3 winners will receive prizes.

Wednesday - Oct. 21, 2009:

• National SAVE Day- Fundraiser-Selling SAVE bracelets before school and during all 3 lunches

Thursday - Oct. 22, 2009:

• Pledge to promote non violence- Students will each receive a purple or orange paper ribbon (in the shape of the breast cancer ribbon) in which they will sign their name to pledge. All ribbons will be attached to a poster for each grade and hung up in the cafeteria.

Friday - Oct. 23, 2009:

• SAVE trivia question day. 3 questions will be asked over CLTV and students can submit their answers into the box.

These are the activities we have planned for our first National SAVE Day/Week. I hope it is a huge success and am sure it will be. We have our own website too and will add pictures of next week onto our site. The site is http://save.schools.officelive.com

Regina Heatt, 6th Grade Math, Lawrence Junior High, WAN#05443720

Shiloh Park School in Zion, IL is partnering with Zion Benton Township High School in organizing SAVE activities this week:

Monday:

• Introduce SAVE pledge and peace concepts to students via announcements and in classroom discussions appropriate to your grade level.
• Hand out bracelets to each student and remind them to wear the bracelets all week long. (Bracelets will be in your drawers on Monday morning.)
• Students will start designing posters with the theme: "How I would make the world a better place". Turn posters in to office where they will be hung throughout the school and community.

• Have each student sign the pledge poster in the front hall by computer room.
• Say SAVE pledge in morning announcements.
• Remind students to wear Orange and Purple tomorrow!

• Students will wear orange and purple to show their support.
• Students will trace their hands and attach their hands to the big 'peace' poster in the front hall by computer room.
• Say SAVE pledge in morning announcements.

• Classroom students and teacher will vote on a "Peace Leader" from their class who will be later trained to be a peer helper. This person doesn't necessarily have to be the best behaved student….just someone the others may respect or think is cool.
• "Bee a Lifesaver" award will be given to each student.
• Say SAVE pledge in morning announcements.

• Today is picture day…..wear your best clothes for the camera and don't be afraid to speak up when someone is bothering you or someone else.
• We might have a school assembly or a speaker come to each classroom to talk about how to prevent bullying (still "in the works").
• Say SAVE pledge in morning announcements.

• The word "peace" (in several different languages) will be hung up around the building.
• Statistics about violence and peace will be hung up around the building.
• Copies of the "I Believe I Can Make a Difference" song will be available to each classroom teacher to play during the week, if the teacher asks for a copy. (Email Brenda or Sara T. for a copy.) Song will be taught to students in music class this week. Lyrics available in the office.
• The whole school will be involved in a "Fight Free School" competition in the future. How many days can we go without a fight?
• Brochures will be handed out to students, teachers, and parents that focus on understanding peer pressure, bullying, conflict management, multicultural awareness, internet safety, and school safety tips.
• Videos to borrow and coloring books to copy are available for classroom teachers if you would like to use them for activities. They will be in the library where you can "check them out" with Mrs. Crouch.

Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) and Student Mentor Awareness Resource Team (SMART), celebrated America's Safe School Week in extraordinary fashion. The clubs conducted a lunch and learn activity where members handed out brochures containing information on drug prevention and non violence. The clubs also sponsored a National SAVE Day contest which required each class to submit SAVE Pledge forms and a poem on non violence. The classes (one from each grade level 6th. 7th, 8th) that had 100% participation of pledge form submissions and had the highest representation at the 3rd Annual SAVE/SMART Dance (Friday October 24th) will receive a pizza party. The SAVE/SMART Dance was an outstanding event. Close to 200 Students attended the dance and was treated to special performances by Smith High School's Drumline "Steel Groove" and by NC A&T's Mu Psi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Music was provided by Guilford County's own DJ. Young Pro (a 9th grader with phenomenal talent). 97.1 QMG and 102 Jamz provided promotional items that served as door prizes and giveaways. The students appeared to have enjoyed themselves and welcomed the message of Non-Violence and Drug Prevention. Jackson Middle also hosted a parent workshop on violence prevention in conjunction with the dance. Council woman T. Diane Bellamy-Small spoke on behalf of Exceptional Children Assistance Center (ECAC) and Ms. Karen Harris spoke on behalf of Safe and Drug Free Schools. A tutorial of Study Island was given by Assistant Principal Rydell Harrison. A portion of the proceeds from the dance will go to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. We are still accepting donations to help us reach our goal of $5,000.00. Canned goods collected were donated to New Light Missionary Baptist Church's Food Bank "Our students are working hard to become change agents in the school and the community," said Keith G. Pemberton, Jackson's School Social Worker. "This comes with a great deal of effort and direction. We want to make sure our students are equipped to affect change. "Our students are great and great students are not born, they are prepared"
Keith G. Pemberton, Jackson Middle School, Greensboro (NC)

My Chapter is planning to have a telethon on comcast tv, recruiting more members, and having the community come out and have fun!!!
~ Brehanna Jordan, North Chicago High School, Chicago, IL

My chapter will be participating in the Rock-A-Thon at Cracker Barrel. It makes it easier, since they already have chairs at their restaurant. For National Safe schools week, we are going to hang up nonviolence messages around the school. We are also participating in "R U Buckled?". We will pass out information to student drivers as well as candy with messages such as Smarties - Be a smartie, wear your seat belt.
~ Cassady Tetsworth, Northwest Guilford High School, NC

For America’s Safe Schools Week everyday in the cafeteria on the table we are going to put facts about SAVE and each day its going to have a new fact. On National SAVE Day we are showing the SAVE video during both lunches at my school and we will have snacks for the people who watch the movie. Also for the Rock-A-Thon my school is going to rock at an important football game at my school.
~ Jonai Lloyd, Laney High School, Wilmington, NC

Our Safe Schools Week Activities include:

• Monday - We will kick it off with "Random Acts of Kindness Day", give a student, staff or faculty member a compliment.
• Tuesday - Adorn student lockers with ribbons, the Colors will be Orange and Purple.
• Wednesday - "NATIONAL SAVE DAY. Trivial Pursuit during lunch. Five Questions about SAVE will be asked and students will place correct answers in a box for a prize drawing on Friday.
• Thursday - Grade Competition (Who will sign the most?)- Students will Read and Sign SAVE Nonviolence Pledge during lunch.
• Friday - Students will sign orange squares during lunch. These will be turned into a banner after this week and presented to the school.

All SAVE members will be trained on how to recognize and prevent bullying in school.
~ Marcia Jeter, Harding University High School, NC

We are finally "off and running" albeit a bit late. Our students have met 3 times so far and they are now grasping the magnitude of their tasks. They are excited and have created bulletin boards in 2 strategic areas of our school (we are in "learning communities A & B", posters are in some of our classrooms, and they are planning to create a "Positive Word Bank" for all students to reference. As yet, we have not planned a specific activity for next week, but as we get more organized, we will fall into step with the program's goals.
~ Dr. Rosie Smith, Northwest Career and Technical Center, NV

Our chapter plans on putting facts on violence in our School's morning announcements for safe schools week. For national SAVE day we would change what the announcement says from violence facts to SAVE facts. We plan on participating in the rock-a-thon by pledging time and effort as we rock out to old school jams on our old fashioned rocking chairs.
~ Kalynn Kowitz, Wilmot Union High school SAVE chapter

For National Safe Schools Week, we will have a PSA over the intercom. On top of that, we are doing fun activities for students, such as a writing/poetry contest on nonviolence, a banner at lunchtime to have people sign as a pledge to nonviolent/non bully behavior, and sidewalk chalk drawing on the sidewalk in the front of the building. This is the first year that Mukwonago SAVE will be hosting a Rock-a-Thon, but we are very excited. For promotion, we will be having posters (We have a member who makes absolutely amazing signs!), a PSA over the morning and afternoon announcements, and we're in the midst of trying to get a local news station to have a feature on the event (crossing our fingers).
~ Amanda Krebsbach, Muckwonago High School, WI

We are in the process of planning our activities. We will be participating in the National Day of Concern About Young People and Gun Violence on October 22 and will be conducting a one year memorial service for one of our co-founders that was shot and killed on October 18 as well as a ceremony on October 16. Our chapter will also be participating in the rock-a-thon.
~ Danielle Diaz, Highland High School, NM

We have multiple activities planned for Safe Schools Week including: R U Buckled – SAVE members stand by parking lot, and randomly stop student drivers. Giving information about seat belt safety and candy: Smarties - Be a smartie, wear your seat belt or Lollipops- Don't be a dumb dumb, wear your seat belt. Also, we will participate in the Rock-A-thon and hang posters with school safety messages.
~ Cassady Tetsworth, Northwest Guilford High School, NC

2007 Responses

For America's Safe School week (Oct. 20-24) We are going to have police officers and the fire department etc. to come talk to our school about how to be safe and what we can do to prevent from being in a horrible situation. The chapter will also present information to the student body and conduct games and different activities to raise awareness of the chapter and recruit more members. ~ Brehanna Jordan, North Chicago High School, IL

We handed out stickers and ribbons and put banners in the cafeteria and in front of the school. The SAVE Club is also in the process of collected care packages for our soldiers. - Clinton High School, Clinton, NC

On National SAVE Day, Dr. Richard Keller, coroner, speak to us, and Mr. Leon Rockingham, the Mayor of North Chicago, came to talk to the students about Gun Violence. - Brehanna Jordon, North Chicago High School, Chicago, IL

7th and 8th graders went to a presentation on National Day of Concern (against bringing a gun/weapon to school and not to settle problems with a gun/weapon. All grade levels were asked to sign a pledge and banner against guns. We had approximately 150 students sign the bullying pledge in 6th grade and about 600 students of all grade levels signed the gun pledge and banner. The banner will be hung in the hall so that all visitors can see it. - Deputy Susan Johnson, Farmville Middle School, Farmville, NC

We hung posters of students throughout the school who have passed away due to violence and each poster will have a statistic along with it. We also put orange and purple ribbons on all of the lockers, and every fourth ribbon will be orange to represent the 1 in 4 students affected by violence. We had peace pledges outside of the cafeteria for students to sign. Students could buy a Peace Links for $0.25 and put their name on it. Afterwards we put them together by class and the class with the longest link won the Peace Award. - Christian Gonzalez, Montbello High School, Denver, CO

On National SAVE Day we planted purple and orange flowers everywhere around the school campus.- Amber Bivins, Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, NC

Our chapter asked the whole school to wear orange and purple on SAVE Day - Casey Storey, Garner High School, Garner, NC

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