This Pink Shirt Day, we encourage all Bluewater District School Board (BWDSB) students, staff, families, and communities to join us in showing off their best pink fashion sense!
By collectively wearing pink, we demonstrate a unified approach to raising anti-bullying awareness while pledging our support for safe, inclusive, and accepting learning and working environments. In BWDSB, we remain committed to schools and work sites where everyone feels welcome, seen, valued, and respected no matter their race, religion, culture, gender, sexual orientation, or background.
The Pink Shirt Day theme for 2026 is “Sprinkle Kindness,” as we consider the many small caring acts towards others each of us can perform in our daily lives that yield big returns. As we symbolically stand together against all forms of bullying on this important day, we also celebrate the incredible work and creative efforts of our students and staff occurring year-round to foster safety, kindness, acceptance, and inclusion.
Pink Shirt Day began following a bullying incident in 2007 at a high school in Nova Scotia. Two teenage boys took action by organizing a school-wide ‘pink’ protest after witnessing a new Grade 9 student being teased for wearing a pink shirt. The boys decided to purchase pink tank tops for their student peers to wear the next day. The rest, as they say, is history! Pink Shirt Day has caught on across Canada and in other parts of the world as an annually recognized anti-bullying awareness day.
On Pink Shirt Day, members of our school communities are once again invited to tag BWDSB on Facebook and Instagram with their pink-themed photos:
@BluewaterDSB
Click here to learn more about Pink Shirt Day.