Part of TEAM Education Trust
'Spread kindness around like confetti!’ As a Trust we want to encourage students and communities to contribute to a better world through a deeper understanding of ourselves and those around us. Each month our TEAM Trust schools will celebrate an element of kindness to help our students unpick and understand these attributes to enable them to respond with intelligence. Each month will also be colour coded to represent which element of our resilience rainbow it builds upon. Each month we will aim to give our children experiences from our TEAM 200 booklets which cover 200 amazing things we would like our children to do before they leave school.
See how many of these you can achieve at home too. Here are some ideas.
Kindness Theme |
Suggested activity |
January – self-acceptance |
Be proud of yourself, share a book, do show and tell |
February - humility |
Bake a cake |
March – compassion/empathy |
Feed an animal, watch a chick hatch in an incubator |
April – trust |
Sit in a fire engine |
May – honesty |
Speak to someone from the emergency services |
June - mindfulness |
Play a board game, play catch, build a den |
July – humour |
Make someone laugh, jump on a bouncy castle, have your face painted, roll down a hill, get covered in paint, have a water fight |
August – Listening (home learning activities to be designed for summer) |
Go on a listening walk |
September - collaboration |
Bounce on a trampoline, blow bubbles, catch a falling leaf, fly a kite, build a mud pie, go for an autumn walk, do some gardening, have a PJ day, feel the rain on your skin |
October - perspective |
Make a model, make an animal footprint, make a hand print animal |
November - positivity |
Bring something to show and tell, feel safe and happy, play hide and seek |
December – gratitude |
Bake bread, decorate a cake, wash the car |
Children who consistently demonstrate a deep understanding of the different elements of kindness and respond with intelligence to potentially problematic situations will be chosen to become ‘Kindness Keepers’. These students will be responsible for keeping us moving on our journey to creating a culture of kindness across our school. These students have also been part of a personal development with Manoj Krishna (Human Wisdom Project) to deepen their understanding of themselves and those around them.