“I will be using the book with the school council to discuss and present to classes/whole school as they feel appropriate.”
“The environmental kindness element of the pack is relevant to current news items.”
“We will be using some ideas from this booklet. Kindness is our school theme this term. Unfortunately being a welsh medium school all the activities/vocabulary need to be translated. Thank you for the ideas though!”
“Thank you for the resource - it will be presented to the teaching staff during one of our staff meetings and then put as a general resource for staff to use as and when they feel it appropriately fits in with their planning.”
“We love the downloadable stickers/certificates etc. And the idea of World Kindness Day and creating a display in school. Book passed to Emotional literacy/PSE team. Thank you very much.”
“There are excellent ideas for activities for Foundation and key stage 2 pupils. Thank you very much.”
“We are currently working to introduce the 'Family Values Scheme' into our school. This pack will certainly support the programme. Many thanks.”
“I shall be using these suggestions and ideas over a series of lessons. Thank you.”
“We aim to split the pack to distribute across the age groups so each cohort can try some of the activities appropriate to their age and class themes. We will also do some of the activities in assembly. The activities are relevant to our curriculum in PSE and RE. Thank you.”
“Have implemented some activities into Circle Time.”
“We are currently exploring values and identifying key values for our school. I'll use this pack to support the development of our ideas. I'll also use it support assemblies. Thank you.”
“As a school we work very hard to promote kindness and generosity to others so we always appreciate and resources which might supplement our existing systems. We will implement some of the activities and integrate them within our weekly sessions.”
“Very useful both for assemblies and Circle Time sessions.”
“This fits in well with our Values in Education system where the children choose the values that are important to our school. Kindness is one of our 22 core values that we celebrate during the two-year cycle. Thank you for the resource.”
“What a splendid idea. Thank you for the book.”
“Some lovely ideas which will promote thoughtful and fun discussions”
“Thank you for the resource which inspires teachers to think more about kindness.”
“The certificate has been displayed and was presented to our children by the mayor as part of a Reward Ceremony. The certificate is with our kindness book where all the children are invited to record stories of acts of kindness following our kindness assemblies on Wednesdays.”
“I will share this with staff in the staff room.”
“We will most likely use some of the ideas during our 'Cool to be Kind' anti-bullying week. Thank you.”
“We will be using parts of the book to enhance our ESDGC and Eco Week work. Lots of activities that can be adapted throughout the primary school.”
“The whole pack looks very useful. There are some lovely ideas for teachers to use to reinforce the importance of kindness to children. A very good resource!”
“We will use the pack in school. Ideas look useful for PSE and Circle time and some general assembly focus.”
“All to be used alongside our SEAL programme.”
“Many thanks, the pack looks very good.”
“I opened the envelope and smiled - We used the words on page 6 to discuss in assembly. Lovely idea, thank you.”
“I will be visiting your website. I like the idea of a kindness club and will consider setting one up.”
“I plan to use the book as a springboard during assemblies for the next half term. I will explain activities (e.g. a kindness book for each class) and the children and class teachers will do follow up work in class and play time.”
“Especially like the idea of a kindness zone, wall or tree to remind children about being kind. Would be lovely to visit a sanctuary for animals to encourage kindness to animals.”
“The activities are simple and clear to use. Will be using this to support SEAL in our school.”
“The kindness book, the quiz, stories and people in history look useful.”
“There are good ideas to use in circle time. We will use these ideas and use them to complement themes.”
“After an initial look at this, I'm sure we will include the ideas into the PSHE lessons in school. Simple but effective ideas always make a huge impact. Thank you.”
“Very interesting with some good ideas in an accessible format.”
“The pack will be used during nurture sessions. Thanks”
“We will be using this in assemblies.”
“We are a rights respecting school which uses SEAL - the pack will be ideal to fit into these areas. We are also planning to use the pack and for each of our Junior classes to deliver an assembly to the remaining children based on kindness themes. Thank you for this lovely resource.”
“We will be using this resource as part of our personal/social curriculum area. It is clear, simple and manageable - ideal to 'dip in' for ideas.”
“It is a well set out pack with lots of interesting activities.”
“The online resources and stories will come in handy and will supplement what we are doing.”
“Thank you for a lovely kindness pack. We will use this throughout the school.”
“Excellent range of activities that I can use across the whole school to raise issues and make interesting discussion points.”
“We will distribute for use in our lessons and as a basis for circle time. A fantastic resource - it was very KIND of you to send it to us.”
“Free resources are always helpful in small schools with limited funding. Thanks!”
“I can see a way to really incorporate the ideas into whole school life. Thank you!”
“A very useful book throughout.”
“The ideas are simple and manageable. They will help to create a sustained development in particular classes where is it needed. Thank you.”
“As a headteacher, I would like to use this as a resource for assemblies in the first instance and then with year 6 in the classroom.”
“We used the Kind People in History activity for an assembly - asking pupils for famous people. Kindness survey/quiz are good to promote class discussions on kindness.”
“We will use the activities alongside our SEAL curriculum, with pupils who struggle to understand/follow 'rules' of kindness.”