Stop Child Abuse

1. An intention to harm: intention suggests that the harm caused by bullying is deliberate, not accidental.[2]
2. Victimization distress: bullying causes the victim to suffer mild to severe psychological, social or physical trauma.[2]
3. Repetition: bullying is persistent; it happens more than once or has the potential to occur multiple times.[2]
4. Power inequity: definitions of bullying often state that bullying includes a real or perceived imbalance of power between the bully and the victim. This characteristic is disputed, as both bullies and victims have reported that the conflict and/or behaviors most commonly occur
   1. Approximately 5 children die every day because of child abuse.
   2. 1 out of 3 girls and 1 out of 5 boys will be sexually abused before they reach age 18.
   3. 90% of child sexual abuse victims know the perpetrator in some way. 68% are abused by a family member.

Maori Traditions

Reading this week

This week I read Slow down by Vivienne Joseph in School Journal Part 2 Number 4 2000.

Our WALT was - make connections with the text

This is some of my response work 

Why is it important to do what the children are doing?

The children were trying to ask the drivers to slow down, so drivers don’t kill or injure little kids.

Do you think the children will change the way the drivers drive?

Yes. Because they will put up the signs everyday to remind

the drivers to slow down.