Kindness Theme Week
Year 3
During theme week year 3 were challenged to consider why self-kindness is important to help build our confidence and self-esteem.
We began the week by exploring what kindness means to us and how it can be celebrated. We worked together to create a beautiful kindness station where we can record acts of kindness we experience. As a group we created a Kindness Agreement which will use as our guide for our actions and made posters to inspire kindness in others.
We explored how compliments can make others feel and spent time creating and sharing compliments for our classmates. Then, using mirrors, we tried to pay ourselves a compliment but found it wasn’t quite as easy. We talked about why it is harder to be kind to yourself sometimes and the impact that this can have.
As our understanding grew, we were able to visit the Affirmation Station and pay ourselves some amazing compliments. Finally, we made ourselves personal compliment cards that we can read whenever we need a little boost to our self-confidence.
At the end of the week, we spent some time considering how kindness and respect work hand-in-hand to create a happy environment. We showed what respect means to us by creating some fantastic acrostic poems.
Year 5
At the start of our theme week, we explored the definition of ‘well-being’ and looked at ways in which we can look after our own well-being and mental health. We also explore the ways in which we can stay happy and healthy. These included yoga, mindfulness yoga and affirmation colouring.
Next, we filled in a kindness log to track throughout the week when we had been kind and showed respect, both in and out of school. We took these home for the week to document our kindness.
The next day, we looked at positive affirmations. We created a kindness bucket for our wellbeing area in which we each designed a bucket and decided what positive actions would fill it. For example, holding doors open or inviting someone to play who looks lonely or left out. We then created positive affirmations to put inside our bucket to give people’s self—esteem a boost when they have carried out an act of kindness.
Finally, we explored ways of boosting and spreading kindness in our community. We have signed up to the ‘Dear Christmas Friend’ scheme where we have created Christmas cards and written a special message inside to a member of a public in a local care home or hospital that may spend Christmas alone. We are hoping to get a few replies too!
Year 6
As part of our theme week on kindness, year 6 started by considering how we can be kinder to ourselves. We created positive affirmations to be displayed in the classroom that we can read whenever we are feeling a bit down. We have also discussed how to be kind to our local community, and we came up with the idea of organising a clothing drive for Sharewear. We researched what Sharewear do and the types of donations that they want, and then created a campaign to advertise our charity event through use of powerpoints, videos and posters. Watch this space for more details!
