“Full term planning on kindness.We have used many ideas from your pack.”
“We used the pack all year round and found it extremely useful especially the questions to ask students”
“Many thanks for the Kindness UK book you sent to us. We are using your material this month as part of our assemblies and PSHE curriculum. Each month we launch a new value that has been chosen by the school council; and the one for this month is Caring and Kindness. We have sent an invitation to each parent, asking them to nominate a child for showing these values, and we will choose one from each Year Group to receive an award as a Values Champion – we have even had a member of staff nominated after he stopped and resuscitated a taxi driver following an accident; he received a text stating “the world is a better place with people like you in it”. As a school we are firmly committed to ensuring that kindness is a big part of our school ethos and look forward to continuing to work with Kindness UK.”
“Both the Primary and Secondary booklets look useful and can be adapted for my Year 5 children. Thank you for this excellent resource.”
“We are a forward thinking school who pride ourselves in innovative teaching, always looking for new inspirational ideas to help move our school and pupils forward. I am working with Whissendine Primary School as a ‘Parent Partner’ part of my role is to come up with great ideas to support and move our curriculum onwards and upwards! It would be great to get some information from Kindness UK that I can promote and pass on at my next curriculum meeting on the 4th November. Many thanks.”
“Please send school kindness pack for primary school. Thanks.”
“Enjoyed the whole pack. Used this to teach and reinforce kindness throughout the school. Invaluable resource.”
“All activities look useful. We will use to support our teaching on 'Values for life', thank you.”
“We will add this topic to our assembly 'values' themes. I'm sure it will fit in very well with the ethos of our school, thanks.”
“We will have a series of assemblies in the run up to World Kindness Day on Nov 13th and focus on acts of kindness within school. We'll also look at people who have carried out acts of kindness. A display will be set up in the hall for children to comment on others who have done kind deeds of them.”
“It was used as a stimulus for collective worship - over a week. The infants did follow up with a kindness book. It made the junior pupils think about acts of kindness and whether they were kind.”
“We will use this in conjunction with our value themes we have for assemblies.”
“I shall offer the pack to staff as a starting point for PSHE/Philosophy resource. The theme of Kindness is also addressed through assemblies.”
“Heard about you through a pack we received and then by Google hits. We decided to call Anti-bullying Week, Kindness Week instead. We are giving out certificates and one class has a kindness club. We are collecting acts of kindness to display. Our message is: BEAT BULLYING, BE KIND. This goes alongside our work on deciding what bullying is and learning what to do if you feel bullied. Thanks for the materials. Class 3 are working out how other classes could use them too.”
“I thought the book was very well presented and easy to access. Some good ideas which tie in well with our school rule ‘We are kind.’ Thank you for sending us a copy. Oak Meadow Primary School, Wolverhampton
“A very useful resource. Thank you.”
“Please can you send us a kindness pack for primary schools? A parent showed me a copy they had and I was impressed with the resources.”
“Thank you. We shall incorporate several aspects of your book into our PSHE scheme of work.”
“Thank you for this pack - it supports our school ethos perfectly and will develop our 'random acts of kindness' an initiative we started last year.”
“Lovely idea; thank you.”
“I've had a quick look at this pack - perfect for school assemblies. Plus follow up activities e.g. kindness wall/kindness book. Thank you.”
“Various bits especially the bits that can be used in assemblies as we have 1 month when our special 'value' of the month is kindness.”
“We will incorporate all of pack through SEAL curriculum Anti-Bully week and other target initiatives. Also using sessional groups of children. Thank you.”
“The whole pack looks useful. I am planning to use it in my whole school assemblies to raise the profile of kindness across the school.”
“Simple activity suggestions look useful.”
“Nice ideas to use in the classroom.”
“Thank you for the 'Kindness Pack'. As Pastoral Care Co-Ordinator, I am always looking for ideas for our Anti-Bullying week. I shall be using some of the ideas in this pack for this years theme - Acts of Kindness.”
“This looks like it will be an excellent resource. I have given a copy to every member of staff, as all of the activities can be used/adapted for all age groups. We are trying to have 2 slots per week of class PSHE time, instead of assemblies. So this resource is perfect for that. I also love how easy it is to dip in and out of the pack, so that each teacher can use the best parts for their class, rather than following a set format/programme. This will be extremely useful. Thank you very much!”
“Thank you so much. It is useful to be given ideas for activities whether they are new ideas or ideas in the past and forgotten. The layout of the materials ensures easy access to the ideas.”
“Lovely ideas to be used in PSCHE lessons. Thank you”
“We intend to use the book for a stimulus in assemblies, individual class topics and class circle times. Thank you for another valuable resource to add to staff lists when teaching/addressing 'kindness' as part of PSHE in our school.”
“It looks very useful for promoting an 'Anti-Bullying' message- focussing on the positives (Be Kind) instead of the negatives (Don't Bully). Thank you for the pack.”
“Another resource to use with children in our PSHE curriculum. Thank you.”
“The quiz looks really fun and the activities that the children can do together in assembly will be very useful too.”
“We like that the activities can be used by children in all key stages.”
“What a lovely resource. We will be using it to support our SEAL work. It has a very structured approach.”
“A great idea, Thank you! The vast number of ways to encourage children to be kind will encourage us to be positive.”
“We used parts of the pack during our friendship week. We focussed on aspects which related to people e.g. friends. We found the pack useful and it had very good ideas. The 'hints' were very good and extended ideas/abilities. Excellent resource!”
“This is a useful resource to link with our assembly theme of kindness”
“I am hoping to use the pack, particularly the activities, with children attending Positive Play sessions at Charlesworth School. The resources to support the activities will also be very useful. We aim to support the children in bringing back to the classroom any positive aspects of emotions, caring for others, feelings etc which they have learned in Positive Play. Hopefully your pack will give us additional ideas and support to enable us to do this. Thank you.”
“Lots of creative and practical ideas for display to remind children regularly of their kindness work. The kindness pack sits well with the SEAL work that we do. We will use the kindness pack with most of our units of work. Thank you.”
“Thank you for the kindness pack. We follow Christian values themes on a two year rolling programme and this will be an excellent resource when we explore the kindness value in more depth. We also set up a kindness board in November to support Kindness Day.”
“The kindness book suggestions and downloadable resources are very useful.”
“It's a lovely pack! We have only one school rule at Southfields and that is 'be kind' so this pack is spot on for us. We will definitely be doing work - a 'project' around it!”
“Useful progression of activities”
“Lovely ideas for SHCE, RE and EYFS curriculum. The outdoor activities would be great 'learning outside' curriculum ideas. Thank you!”
“Good ideas that link with the values programme that we follow.”
“I used your resources to help bond a group of year 6 girls that were going to the same secondary school but have not had a lot to do with each other in their time at primary school. I felt this was extremely useful and is something that I hope to continue with every year if needed.”
“We have a value each month and this pack will be a great resource to base a new monthly value on. Any more resources like this would be appreciated.”
“We have started using the pack in collective worship. This term we are thinking about 'community' and we have talked about acts of kindness.”
“We like a lot of the ideas which will compliment our 'values' assemblies.”
“Some good ideas that we can build upon and extend.”
“The pack was very welcome as kindness is very under valued but actually quite simple.”
“We will use this with the school council and eco-committee. Good to dip into for short/quick activities to reinforce this.”
“The ideas and resources look great, thank you.”
“It fits in well with the school's PATHS: particularly thinking about acts of kindness, vocabulary etc. Can be used by Eco Club as idea for things/projects to do around school etc. It is easy and clear to access.”
“I will share the ideas with staff - I can see some ideas useful for circle times/assemblies immediately and useful resources for PHSE. Thank you.”
“Good links to SEAL and RE curriculum.”
“All of it looks great, particularly the activities.”
“Many of the activities link well to our ongoing work: Supporting a local church, project building a school in Burkino Faso, kindness towards all people in our school and community and wider world, SEAL, work around Florence Nightingale, staff give 'random acts of kindness' to each other to support staff well-being, growing vegetables/plants in our gardening club. We have hatched chicks and released butterflies from eggs. We regularly have visitors to school with animals to teach about kindness. We have a Gold National Healthy School Award which incorporates children/families and staff's well-being. This pack will support all this work.”
“The activities are usful in school.”
“The activities could be useful as collective worship ideas.”
“We will be using the activities as a whole school 10 minute activity from Nursery to year 6. Thanks kindly.”
“Thank you. Looking forward to using it.”
“Good assembly ideas.”
“The kindness wall chart ideas are useful.”
“We have received the pack and we do propose to use it.”
“The booklet looks good and all the ideas will be explored across the primary age range. It links very well with our 'Values for Life' scheme.”
“The activities that get the children to 'think' are most effective. This pack will link with our PSHE curriculum and values culture.”
“Will add this pack to support our 'SEAL' resources.”
“We plan to use the pack in PSHE lessons in KS2. It may also be useful in assembly.”
“The pack is great for ideas. As a basis for ideas for class rules the activities are very good.”
“Some of the activities will help us to consolidate our ideas for PSHE lessons across all Key Stages. We have already begun to use the 'take a smile' poster around the school.”
“It looks user friendly and the ideas are wide ranging.”
“I loved the idea of Activity 7 - Kindness Zone, and Activity 10 - Kind People in History. Certificates is a fantastic idea (simple but effective).”
“What a super resource with simple activities which do not require hours of planning. A resource we can just pick up and run with! Thank you.”
“What a lovely idea and it brings to the forefront of your thinking about kindness and the acts it might involve.”
“Thank you for the KS1 ideas - I am sure they will be useful.”
“Some of the activities might be useful in circle time (e.g. vocabulary, quiz, alphabet)”
“Wall Chart/Alphabet/Online resources look great - Thank you very much!”
“We will use this as a supporting resource for our Celebrating Strengths work, one of which is kindness.”
“We will use the pack to supplement work on values education. Kindness being one of our values.”
“We have already obtained 'Investors in Pupils' award and feel this will compliment the work we are already doing. We have 'A Tree of Kindness' but like the idea of a 'Kindness Book'. The kindness club may be something we implement with our nurture class. Many thanks!”
“Some great ideas. We are an Eco and Enterprising School, 'Respect' is our key word, which all the children know and are encouraged to be! This booklet on kindness will support this. I am giving it to my Y6 Enterprise Ambassadors, who will come up with their own ideas on how to use it to promote kindness across the school. Thank you!
“Brilliant suggestions, thank you!”
“Thank you - Some good ideas for discussion.”
“We thought we might use this resource to have a special 'kindness' week to promote this in our school. We loved the idea of a kindness tree and a whole school notice board of kindness challenges.”
“Variety of activities are useful and can be adapted for each year group. Also, the hints and questions are useful to have.”
We run values education in our school and this resource will help plan different practical activities to support that work. Thank you.
“We have a 'value' of the term and kindness will be one of those in the future. Thank you.”
“It is very interesting to think of aspects of our school life in terms of kindness - for example our collective worship theme today was Mother Teresa (inspiring kindess) which links well, and our well used allotment as kindness to plants. We will use the pack to integrate into collective worship and values.”
“Many thanks for the Kindness Pack our school are using this resource and find everything in it very useful.”
“Will use in assemblies and in our 'Values Day'. Thank you.”
“The activities will support our PHSE. Thank you.”
“Thank you so much for this lovely resource. It links closely with our school rules ad ethos and can be used at different stages across the school year.”
“This pack will be extremely useful and fits in well with our 'Brilliant Derby' Project. Thank you - some great activity ideas we can implement in the whole school.”
“I am going to use it as part of our 'values' assemblies”
“The kindness zone is a great idea. Looking to implement it possibly before the end of term.”
“We are going to use the ideas for a series of assemblies.”
“This book will be particularly useful for children who find it difficult to interact in a positive way with their peers. It would also be useful in nurture group situations.”
“The book is really good and will be very useful to me in my Inclusion room. I hope that we can promote this so that when the pupils return to class they can put into practise the kindness tips they have learnt.”
“I'll be adding World Kindness Day to our calendar. I like the environmental kindness ideas - a slightly different way of looking at green issues. Thank you - this pack will keep kindness on our radar!”
“This will link into our SEAL work in school. It will also link well with: learning from others, empathising, helping others, sharing ideas, valuing others.”
“These ideas link to our values education. Staff like activity 4 (environmental kindness) and we will expand this to our wooded area. We liked the kind people in history task which put a slightly different/thought provoking slant on history.”
“Great ideas for values lessons on kindness as part of our values programme.”
“I shall share this with my leadership team ASAP!”
“Short, child-friendly activities which I will use in our school during lesson and assembly times. Thank you.”
“The activities look like a good resource to address group/individual issues where kindness would be beneficial.”
“I like the simple layout of the sessions. It's nice to have a resource that just focuses on one thing and promotes it so well.”
“Particularly like the idea of a kindness book and wall chart which I can use as whole school/assembly themes. Also links to our Eco Club who have made bird houses in the past. It certainly fits with out C of E ethos and behaviours we promote.”
“We use the term 'being kind' many times a day, but young children need support to help them understand what kindness really means. Thank you for the resource.”
“The ideas are easy to put in place and will get everyone involved!”
“I will use this initially with our Yr 4 class and possibly as a resource during PPA time.”
“I will introduce this through whole school assemblies and encourage children to recognise acts of kindness and celebrate them readily. Thank you for the pack.”
“Really nice activities - Thank you”
“Thank you very much for promoting kindness across the nation.”
“I like many of the parts within the pack and will definitely be making use of it within the school.”
“We will use this in our nurture groups.”
“It gives you a uniformed and structured way of learning basic skills. It is very user friendly and clear.”
“Nice clear presentation, easy to pick out activities - not loads to read! Very simple and clear activities. ”
“We are working hard on behaviour and issues re- relationships. This pack will have a positive impact on our learning. Thank you.”
“This will be used by our learning mentor, supporting small groups or individuals who have emotional, relationship issues.”
“Very useful resource, thanks!”
“All parts are possible discussion points for PHSCE lessons and as additional resources.”
“Useful activities to use as a whole school.”
“We are a values school and we have put this booklet with our other resources that are used each month to promote a particular value. Kindness is our value in November so will look forward to dipping into some of the activities then.”
“Great activities to use in the classroom. It will be good to include cross curricular links with RE, PHSE, literacy etc.”
“Many thanks for the pack that arrived in the post this week. It supports out PSHE teaching and general ethos of the school.”
“We will be using some of the ideas from it in May when our school value for the month is Kindness. I particularly like the idea of the kindness quiz - it looks like it will generate some good discussion. I'm sure we will be using some of the resources from your website too. ”
“This looks a good resource and will support our PHSE curriculum throughout the school.”
“The activities could be incorporated into initiatives like Anti-Bullying Week etc. The useful range of activities suggested give us a wide scope. Thank you.”