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Red Ribbon Week
Red Ribbon Week takes place each year from October 23-31st and inspires our kids to be brave, make good choices, and stay healthy and drug-free. At CCES, this messaging is consistent throughout the entire school year, not just during Red Ribbon Week, but the campaign week certainly brings about some special events and reminders.
For the Lower School, the week presented an opportunity to deliver a message surrounding good choices, and showing respect to themselves and others. And who better to deliver that message than an Upper School student whom students look up to and aspire to emulate? Alex Wess, Honor Council Chair, was the perfect choice. “Your choices don’t affect just you, they affect other people as well,” he told students. “They affect your friends, your parents, your teachers, everyone that cares for you. So when making a big decision, think about this. If I do this, will other people be affected by it? Will this choice that I make, be bad or good for other people?”
In the Middle School, Red Ribbon Week is an extension of all they do already to promote The Cavalier Way. Students devoted time and energy to choosing the harder right over the easier wrong, being the best they can be, and taking care of themselves and others. Fifth grade students have created posters to promote healthy habits. Sixth grade students have given their attention to the realities of peer pressure, how this pressure can be helpful in some circumstances, and how it can be hurtful in others, and the consequences that follow. 7th grade students have spent a great deal of time learning about the immediate and lasting impacts of vaping. 8th grade students have invested time and thought into ethical dilemmas in which they consider real-life circumstances surrounding substance use. Our faculty has been amazed at the discussions and insights in which our students have engaged.
Kicking off the week in Upper School assembly, Ms. Beckrich, Upper School Assistant Director, reminded students to take care of themselves and others, so we can “be together as a community and do great things”. Zay Kittredge, Upper School Counselor, noted the great lengths we've gone through to stay together and encouraged students to continue to make good choices. "We are blessed to be here. It hasn't always been easy, and it's taken a lot of effort, and for that to continue it has to be sustainable. We have to keep taking care of ourselves so we can keep doing this."
Although Red Ribbon Week messaging goes beyond these seven days, it serves as a great reminder to get students talking and working on activities to further build a sense of community and common purpose. In creating a critical mass, we are better suited to reduce destructive social norms and behaviors and promote positive social norms and behaviors in our Cavalier community.
In the Middle School, Red Ribbon Week is an extension of all they do already to promote The Cavalier Way. Students devoted time and energy to choosing the harder right over the easier wrong, being the best they can be, and taking care of themselves and others. Fifth grade students have created posters to promote healthy habits. Sixth grade students have given their attention to the realities of peer pressure, how this pressure can be helpful in some circumstances, and how it can be hurtful in others, and the consequences that follow. 7th grade students have spent a great deal of time learning about the immediate and lasting impacts of vaping. 8th grade students have invested time and thought into ethical dilemmas in which they consider real-life circumstances surrounding substance use. Our faculty has been amazed at the discussions and insights in which our students have engaged.
Kicking off the week in Upper School assembly, Ms. Beckrich, Upper School Assistant Director, reminded students to take care of themselves and others, so we can “be together as a community and do great things”. Zay Kittredge, Upper School Counselor, noted the great lengths we've gone through to stay together and encouraged students to continue to make good choices. "We are blessed to be here. It hasn't always been easy, and it's taken a lot of effort, and for that to continue it has to be sustainable. We have to keep taking care of ourselves so we can keep doing this."
Although Red Ribbon Week messaging goes beyond these seven days, it serves as a great reminder to get students talking and working on activities to further build a sense of community and common purpose. In creating a critical mass, we are better suited to reduce destructive social norms and behaviors and promote positive social norms and behaviors in our Cavalier community.
“Living God, thank you for those whom you bring into our lives who inspire us, who draw forth what is best in us, who help us to become everything God created us to be; meanwhile, Lord, thank you as well for helping us to do the same for others. In the name of Jesus, Amen.”
~ Wallace Adams-Riley, Senior Chaplain
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The entire school dressed in red to kick off Red Ribbon week.
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Lower school students planted tulips as a reminder of the importance of making good decisions. The planting is accompanied by prayer that encourages our students to “choose the harder right over the easier wrong”.
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Mr. Greco delivered red cake pops to all middle school students as a special treat.
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