“I love the idea of the kindness book.The children love writing in it when they have spotted an act of kindness.We have also adapted the certifictes to use in assembly weekly.”
“We'll be using this pack in our school. Perhaps you could add some assembly ideas and link with stories and songs. The pack also link to existing S.E.A.L. material in school.”
“We are very proud of our certificate for Kindness. Our school council takes great pride in showing this on our notice board. We enjoy coming up with different ideas to encourage Kindness within our school and enjoy using your booklet. Thank you.”
“The practical ideas look very useful. We would like more copies for staff to have in their classrooms.”
“We like the whole approach using interactivity. We suggest you develop a further series. Thank you.”
“I am trying it out on my class first, then I shall pass it on. My year ¾ class are very enthusiastic about making a Kindness Book!”
“Assembly template looks useful as we are doing kindness as a theme is assemblies.”
“We are an enhanced mainstream school for Behaviour, Emotional and Social Difficulties and as such, we use SEAL and emotional literacy. This resource will be extremely useful in providing ideas to assist with SEAL. Thank you.”
“We have a number of ways in which we promote kindness. We try to focus on the intrinsic rewards i.e being kind makes us feel good. Your pack and website fit exactly with our philosophy. Thank you – we will definitely use your materials.”
“I will copy the pack and give staff copies to use in lessons. Thank you for your resources.”
“I will share it with staff. We do have some similar things in place but there were some new ideas too.”
“This resource fits beautifully with our ethos, as well as our work to promote and environmentally friendly curriculum. Many thanks.”
Clear and easy to follow. Given to HZTA to use in PHSE lessons.
“We have distributed it throughout the school to allow teachers to use as suitable.”
“I particularly like the idea of the Kindness Book and the activity on kindness…vocabulary. The theme ties in nicely with our school values.”
“All of the book looks useful. Some good ideas to be incorporated into Assembly Time.”
“Lovely ideas and downloadable resources to promote kindness. Thank you.”
“Thank you for the resource pack.”
“We had only just been saying how we needed to think of ways to encourage the children to be kinder to one another. Then your package arrived! We shall certainly be using the material. Please keep us updated by email. Many thanks.”
“Can you send us a Kindness Pack. Thank you.”
“Can we please request a Kindness UK pack. Many thanks.”
“I shall be using the book alongside my Nurture Groups. There are lots of ideas which I feel sure will prove very useful.”
“It was really helpful to have the resources available online, especially the stories, so all staff were able to have access to them quickly.”
“Thank you. This will be especially helpful in stimulating conversations in our nature group.”
“What a great idea - we thoroughly approve of your work and think it will contribute to the sum of human happiness; which is what life's all about.”
“We have a forest school, so the activities around growing, animal habitats, planting etc are useful for us. Thank you.”
“All aspects fit well with our school's Golden Rules and the SEAL curriculum. Many Thanks indeed!”
“Developing kindness as part of emotional intelligence (SEAL) will be particularly useful. We can certainly use this with Year 3 and 4 PSHCE lessons. Thank you.”
“Very good resource! The ideas for displays to promote kindness are really useful.”
“The school celebrates international kindness day as part of the PHSE curriculum so this pack will be a very useful resource.”
“Activities chosen would be good starter activities at the beginning of the year with a new class, to focus on setting up own classroom rules. You can use activities as part of circle time in PSHCE sessions. We hatch our own chicks in foundation stage - so it links to our curriculum well.”
“Making a kindness book and using stories about kindness are good ideas.”
“We need to build this into the current PSHCE curriculum and collective worship.”
“The resources will be used by our home/school link to promote friendship and kindness with small groups of children who at times struggle with their behaviour. The resources will also be made available to all teaching staff.”
“Individual ideas which can reinforce the ethos of the school - easy format for staff to dip into.”
“Our Kind School Certificate is displayed centrally - it has helped to raise profile of kindness projects with the staff. I have also printed a certificate from your website and displayed on my class Kindness Wall. This was well received by the children. Thank you.”
“What a wonderful resource pack and the children have thoroughly enjoyed the 'kindness work'. What a boost to their self-esteem, empathy and confidence. A group of children have just completed a 6 week programme from the Kindness UK resource pack. The children had special educational needs and were very vulnerable for a variety of reasons. In our celebration assembly they are to be presented a certificate for their kindness work. We intend to extend this work to the rest of the school step by step so that 'kindness' is a word our children will be using. Thank you.”
“The discussion points throughout are useful.”
“This will fit into our current topics.”
“Great ideas to promote kindness which I will be using in my SEAL support groups and with my anti-bullying resources.”
“Great kindness book/zone ideas.”
“What a great resource. Thank you. As a school our underlying philosophy is very much based on mutual respect, including kindness, tolerance and qualities that make us responsible individuals. We will use the ideas to support activities we already use with our community, parents and children. If we all shared acts of kindness wouldn't the world be a better place? Many thanks.”
“What a lovely idea!.”
“I have read through the pack and looked at the website. It will fit perfectly into our work on Anti-Bullying. A great resource!.”
“I will be using the book to plan a series of assembles over a two week period.”
“Our values and school vision to be a creative, caring and confident school link perfectly with the activities and messages in the book. I will be using some of the activities for our school assemblies. Many thanks.”
“Our Learning Mentor will be using elements of this resource as part of a lunchtime club with children in years 3 and 4.”
“Lots of ideas using the theme of kindness in different ways. Interesting resources which link well with our Christian Value themes.”
“Good ideas for PHSCE lessons. Kindness wall chart will promote ongoing ideas for being kind to one another.”
“I really like your pack and have organised our next terms assemblies around the activities in there.”
“The activities, vocabulary to explore, stewardship and resources look useful.”
“All of the activities are great and will be most helpful. Good for assemblies, PSHCE curriculum, circle time. We will make children reflect on aspects of their own attitudes towards kindness.”
“Many of the activities will be useful to use in assemblies to introduce the subject and then PHSE in class to allow children to apply practical skills to help improve and enhance the school community.”
“We award a 'Kindness Cup' every half term to one child who exhibits these characteristics. This will link nicely to our assembly.”
“This pack could be used across the school in circle time/ PSHE lessons and also links well to S.E.A.L.”
“This looks like such a well presented and simple practitioners resource that I'm sure we will find very helpful in labelling positive values and attitudes. As a VC CofE school we actively promote Christian values and this resource fits in beautifully with our school views and values. Thank you!”
“I like the idea that each resource builds on the prior knowledge from the previous lesson. The book provides discussion points which are used in the Nurturing Programme in school. Also resources could be used to teach PHSE.”
“The book has some great ideas.”
“We will put this pack with our PHSCE resources and dip into it as and when necessary. Thank you very much.”
“Especially useful for assemblies and PSHE. I like the kindness book activity.”
“Good link to PSHE”
“We will use this in conjunction with SEAL at the beginning of the year to set class ethos.”
“Thank you. This may well form the basis of some teaching to small groups of children.”
“Full of good ideas that can be used in an infant school.”
“Thank you - at last something that relates to a real value rather than a national standard! We are already well on the journey of creating a school and community where kindness, love and joy feature highly in expectations and aspirations. It will be a pleasure and an honour to be involved with Kindness UK. Please do not hesitate to contact me if there is anything I can do to support this 'flame'.”
“I have given the pack to our relevant subject coordinator and feel sure that they will be grateful for the pack. I can certainly see how it links in with some of our topics for assembly.”
“I will use the pack to promote kindness and positive emotional well-being. We are working with the Hull mental health project too.”
“Fun and varied ideas for activities to promote kindness.”
“The parts of the pack I found most useful were the practical suggestions e.g. a kindness bulletin board in each classroom.”
“All parts will be useful for children of all ages.”
“Thank you so much - it was a lovely surprise in the post and we will certainly be taking lots of the suggestions on board.”
“We operate a 'value of the month' in addition to our core values of enthusiasm, respect and honesty. This month coincidentally happens to be kindness so it is a very timely and welcome initiative. Thank you.”
“Many thanks - it is useful to have lots of ideas brought together in one easy to access resource pack.”
“What a lovely idea! It actually made me smile when I opened it. We will be using it to support our ethos statements, SMSC and PHSE work in school. Thank you.”
“A useful book, thank you. Ideas can be used in classroom and whole school or in a collective workshop.”
“We will use with our hearing Mentor as she works with groups/individual pupils when they are hurt/upset/having friendship issues!”
“Thank you for sending this copy - much appreciated!”
“Activities which we will write into our Long Term Plan for 2013/14.”
“I will look to using this in our workshop assemblies. Will also pass on to the learning mentor. Thank you for the resource.”
“Simple nature of each activity page is useful and little preparation is needed. Thank you.”
“This is to be used in assemblies.”
“Creating a kindness book is something to develop in foundation stage before incorporating the other activities throughout the school.”
“I strongly recommend this to all colleagues who work with young people in primary schools.”
“Lots of great ideas broken down into clear sections. A really useful resource packed with ideas. Thank you.”
“This pack links perfectly to out PSHCE lessons and our school ethos about looking after/being kind to each other and our environment. It will be used to enhance our teaching and for some assemblies. I am planning to use the idea of a kindness area as a focus for our reflection area and display. Thank you.”
“The quiz was very thought provoking. Fits well with the SEAL work we do with the children and has been useful in assembly. One theme - 'getting on and falling out' has been particularly appropriate”
“This will be useful as intervention ideas.”
“This pack has been a great help to support kindness within our school. We now have kindness monitors who give out certificates in assemblies.”
“The further resources online are useful.”
“I will use these ideas in assemblies for the whole school as well as for individual classes. Thank you, it's lovely!”
Requested and received 16 extra packs for each of their teachers.
“We especially like the online links.”
“The pack will be very useful to supplement the PSHE and SMSC of the curriculum with all ages of the school.”
“Thank you for the Kindness pack that came today. There are some nice ideas. The downloadable resources advertised in the back look very useful.”
“Very useful to use in small group sessions with some of our troubled, behavioural children.”
“I will be using some of these ideas in small nurture groups. I particularly like the focus on kind/friendly statements.”
“Some good ideas that can become a PHSCE focus for a school and good links to other areas of the curriculum.”
“Many useful suggestions which we are keen to try out.”
“The kindness chart and kindness plant look useful.”
“Activities suited to all year groups and useful as part of Anti-Bullying fortnight.”
“I'm involved in scouting and it looks to be suitable for the Beavers and Cubs age range too.”
“The pack has cross curriculum possibilities - literacy/science etc. We could also use it as part of our reflection areas.”
“Some useful ideas for assemblies and PHSCE.”
“We will use the pack as a prompt for school assemblies. Website is useful as a wider recourse too.”
“Thank you for sending this resource. It fits in very well with our PHSCE work.”
“Your pack will give children a range of acts they may consider.”