Llandrindod Wells CP School, Wales “We will use the pack in school. Ideas look useful for PSE and Circle time and some general assembly focus.” Ysgol Frongoch, Wales “All to be used alongside our SEAL programme.” Tynyrheol Primary School, Wales “Many thanks, the pack looks very good.” Nannerch Primary School, Wales “I opened the envelope and smiled - used the world on page 6 to discuss in assembly. Lovely idea, thank you.” West Earlham Infant School, Norfolk “The pack was very welcome as kindness is very under valued but actually quite simple.” Houghton Conquest Lower School, Bedfordshire “We will use this with the school council and eco-committee. Good to dip into for short/quick activities to reinforce this.” Quadring Cowley & Brown's Primary School, Lincolnshire “The ideas and resources look great, thank you.” Whitefriars CofE Primary School, Norfolk “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 of things/projects to do around school etc. It is easy and clear to access.” New Mills Primary School, Derbyshire “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.” Hetts Lane Infant School, Nottingham “Good links to SEAL and RE curriculum.” St Barnabas CofE Primary School, Lincolnshire “All of it looks great, particularly the activities.” William Lilley Infant and Nursery School, Nottinghamshire “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.” Downside Primary School, Bedfordshire “The activities are usful in school.” The North Hykeham All Saints CofE Primary School, Lincolnshire “The activities could be useful as collective worship ideas.” Mile Cross Primary School, Norfolk “We will be using the activities as a whole school 10 minute activity from Nursery to year 6. Thanks kindly.” Welford Sibbertoft and Suby Endowed School, Northamptonshire “Thank you. Looking forward to using it.” Frenwood Junior School, Nottinghamshire “Good assembly ideas.” Normanby Pruimary School, Lincolnshire “The kindness wall chart ideas are useful.” Prospect Hill Junior School, Nottinghamshire “We have received the pack and we do propose to use it.” Hopton Church of England Primary School, Norfolk “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 Lincoln Monor Leas Junior School, Lincolnshire “The activities that get the children to 'think' are most effective. This pack will link with our PSHE curriculum and values culture.” Anthony Curton C of E Primary School, Cambridgeshire “Will add this pack to support our 'SEAL' resources.” Blisworth Community Primary School, Northamptonshire “We plan to use the pack in PSHE lessons in KS2. It may also be useful in assembly.” Kingsmoore Lower School, Bedfordshire “The pack is great for ideas. As a basis for ideas for class rules the activities are very good.” Northfield Primary School, West Yokshire “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 inspaniduals. 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.” Winlaton West Lane Community Primary School, Tyne and Wear “What a lovely idea!” Fitzwilliam Primary School, West Yorkshire “I have read through the pack and looked at the website. It will fit perfectly into our work on Anti-Bullying. A great resource!” Scawsby Saltersgate Infant School, South Yorkshire “I will be using the book to plan a series of assembles over a two week period.” West Melton Junior and Infant School, South Yorkshire “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.” Swain House Primary School, West Yorkshire “Our Learning Mentor will be using elements of this resource as part of a lunchtime club with children in years 3 and 4.” St Mary's Church of England Primary School, South Yorkshire “Lots of ideas using the theme of kindness in different ways. Interesting resources which link well with our Christian Value themes.” Hyrstmount Junior School, West Yorkshire “Good ideas for PHSCE lessons. Kindness wall chart will promote ongoing ideas for being kind to one another.” West Melton Primary School, South Yorkshire “I really like your pack and have organised our next terms assemblies around the activities in there.” Prior's Mill CofE Primary School, Teeside “The activities, vocabulary to explore, stewardship and resources look useful.” East Ayton Community Primary School, North Yorkshire “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.” Churwell Primary School, West Yokshire “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.” Bilton Infant School, Warwickshire “As a school that has 'values' at its core, the act of kindness and the ideas within the pack fit beautifully. Simple and clear to read, practical ideas, relevant to our children. Thank you for the free copy - your kindness is much appreciated.” Hall Green Infant School, Birmingham “One of our school aspirations is kindness - this was one of the children's ideas. We teach Values Education and will include kindness in that, so the resource will be very helpful. Thank you.” St Lukes CofE Primary School, Stafforshire “Good ideas for PHSE/SEAL and worship.” All Saints CofE Infant School, Warwickshire “We may use some of the ideas within our PHSE work when suitable for our planned 'values for life' themes in assembly ” St John's CofE Primary School, Staffordshire “A very useful resource to work alongside our PHSE curriculum. Thank you.” Wood Green Junior School, West Midlands “I believe this pack is a great resource that could be used during anti-bullying week. Many thanks.” Park Hall Junior Academy, West Midlands “There are elements that will be useful for the whole school or cohort specific.” All Saints CofE Primary School, Staffordshire “The resource section looks good.” Outwoods Primary School, Warwickshire “We would really love to receive one of your resource packs. Thank you so much.” St Anne Line Catholic Junior School, Essex “What a lovely resource! I really enjoyed reading through the pack and I'll certainly be using some of the ideas with the children. Thank you for the ideas and I look forward to using them.” Gosbecks Primary School, Essex “All aspects are useful at different points over the year.” St Paulinus CofE Primary School, Kent “The kindness stickers/badges are really useful.” Danegove Primary School, Hertfordshire “The activities and development hints which look at the wider community are useful.” Sutton Valence Primary School, Kent “I'm going to use the pack to create assemblies.” Robin Hood Junior School, Surrey “We have different 'values' each half term so I will distribute to teachers when kindness is our school value - thank you.” Abbot's Hall community Primary School, Suffolk “Some lovely ideas, thank you!” Broadwater Primary School, Kent “The activities are very useful, thank you.” Baynards Primary School, Essex “Kindness is one of or core values at Baynards. We also have a kindness cup and a weekly kindness bag in each class.” Meonstoke C of E Infant School, Hampshire “We use Building Learning Power and have our school golden rules - 'always be kind and gentle'. The ideas in this pack have enhanced our provision. Speenhamland Primary School, Berkshire “Vocab activitiy was good. I will use this pack in my ELSA work.” Edward Francis Primary School, Essex “Stories/activities to support spiritual, moral, social and cultural education.” Birchwood Grove Community School, West Sussex “This booklet has been put in staff resources for teachers to consult when planning PSHE activities. A lot of the ideas tie in with our focus on Rights Respecting Schools work so could be used with a slightly altered vocabulary (kindness/respect). Thank you!” English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, West Sussex “I used this in an assembly. The theme was 'love' and I laminated all the activity sheets and gave them to the classes as something to have a go at during the week to show love through kind acts. Thank you it was a lovely resource.” St Thomas More's Catholic Primary School, Essex “Lots of the activity ideas look useful.” Burchetts Green CofE Infants' School, Berkshire “I like the simplicity of the activities - common sense!” Westbury Park Primary School, Bristol “The Kindness Quiz and Kindness Wall Cart ideas are really useful. Thank you, a lovely, thought-provoking booklet to receive on a grey Wednesday afternoon.” Haytor View Community Primary School, Devon Requested and received 4 extra packs St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School, Isle of White “It's all really useful!” St Werburgh's Primary School, Bristol “Nice simple and easy to use guide.” St Martin's CofE VA Primary School, Wiltshire “Great activity ideas and online resources.” Holy Trinity Primary School, Bristol “The downloadable resources and environmental kindness ideas are really useful (links to our RE curriculum too).” Culmstock Primary School, Devon “There are bits of all the activities that could be incorporated into our SEAL lessons.” Calton Infant School, Gloucestershire “I will take time to read it more thoroughly, with a view to using it during assemblies in 2013-2014. Thank you.” Wraxall Church of England Primary School, Somerset “We particularly like the kindness wall activity.” St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Isle of White “A variety of activities for all age groups.” Penponds School, Cornwall “Useful online resources.” Charlton Kings Infant School, Gloucestershire “Thank you! Useful ideas...all in one book.” Armitage CofE Primary School, Greater Manchester “I put this in the staffroom for everyone to enjoy.” Ribby with Wrea Endowed CofE Primary School, Lancashire “The online resources and choice of activities for both older and younger children are useful.” Gosforth CofE School, Cumbria “We would love to create a kindness zone!” Aspull Church Primary School, Lancashire “We will celebrate World Kindness Day on November 13th 2013 - it is already in the diary. This fits in so well with our Christian values.” St Wilfrid's CofE Primary School, Lancashire “We are a Values Education school and thus this pack will be useful when exploring values such as caring and thoughtfulness.” St Michael's CofE Primary School, Lancashire “The pack looks to be full of good ideas...There are lots of useful suggestions.” Preston Greenlands Community Primary School, Lancashire “It all looks great, thank you!” St George's CofE School, Cumbria “Used as whole school actions linked to weekly/daily worship.” St Paul's CofE Primary School, Cheshire “Very useful to encourage children to think about their behaviour towards others!” St Clement's CofE Primary School, Manchester “The topics and activities e.g. kindness tree and focussing on a local person who's shown kindness are really useful.” Irlam Primary School, Manchester “Good ideas to use for whole school assemblies!” Marvels Lane Primary School, London “Thank you. We are currently doing kindness as our value word for this month. A couple of good ideas to add to my plan for assemblies. Especially Kindness Book and stories of people being kind.” Brunswick Park Primary School, London “We have had an initial assembly and I will follow through. Hope to add some of the children's responses to the website.” Comber Grove School, London “I shall leave the book on the staff room table for all to see and use! I was looking for an assembly idea at 24 hours notice and out popped this book!! Got great song and drama assembly out of your act of kindness! Thanks” Hounslow Town Primary School, London “Very helpful and will be incorporated into our PHSE curriculum and SEAL based assemblies.” North Mundham Primary School, West Sussex “Thank you for sending us this pack. We recently had a kindness day where children painted a pebble (the ripple effect of kindness) and signed a pledge. We are creating a house of kindness where the children's kind deeds are displayed. We also made a kindness video similar to the one for Noah & the Whale's song 'Give a little love'. We will definitely use some of your resources next year when we do kindness day again.” St Alphege Church of England Primary School, Kent “Like idea of kindness book acting as a record.” Eastnor Parochial Primary School, Hertfordshire “We are a leading school for philosophy for children and it could be used as stimulus for this.” St Joseph's Catholic Junior School, Surrey “Our Pastoral Support Assistant works with inspaniduals and groups and this will prove useful especially in 'conflict' situations.” St Nicolas Church of England Primary School, Oxfordshire “It all looks useful and will fit in with some work on values we are doing next term. Ideas for using in assembly are good and it looks like there may be a few here.” Downview Primary School, West Sussex “Great resource which will support PSCHE! Will also be useful when talking about class rules and activities to help a class bond eg. in a new school year. Thank you.” Stephen Freeman Community Primary School, Oxfordshire “Links to you website with further resources/photos etc.” West Minster Primary School, Kent “I will definitely start some form of kindness club using the pack. Thank you!.” St Martins's East Woodhay C of E Primary School, Berkshire “Some good ideas for exploring this topic.” St Mark's C of E Primary School, East Sussex “All looks useful, many thanks.” Northbourne C of E Primary School, Kent “Great timing! Our theme for this term is kindness, so we will be using many of your ideas in class and in assembly.” Witney Community Primary, Oxfordshire “Thank you, some very nice ideas and activities which we can use throughout the school. Will be of use in a variety of ways! Chipping Hill Primary School, Essex “Our motto is 'Everyday I will be thoughtful, caring and kind' - Thank you.” Canvey Island Infant School, Essex “We will add this resource to our teachers library. A useful resource, particularly for assemblies.” Fir Ends Primary School, Cumbria “I was thrilled with this resource pack as a busy PSHE teacher I am always looking for new ideas to promote my subject. I will use all of the lesson plans as well as the online resources.” Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Primary School, Leeds “Nicely & clearly presented activities. Easy to follow – we are thinking of giving our School Council the job of promoting this & it will be an easy resource for them to follow.” Sutton Manor Community Primary School, Merseyside “This was passed onto staff who asked to include aspects in their lessons.” Inglewood Infant School, Cumbria “What a delightful pack – we will use some of these ideas to raise awareness of 'kind' acts. Thank you for sending it to us.” Upperby Primary School, Cumbria “Useful ideas for assemblies. Thank you.” St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Lancashire “Most of it looks useful. Thank you!.” Woodfield Primary School, Lancashire “The pack looks very useful. It fits in very well with our SEAL curriculum. Thank you.” Llanharan Primary School, Wales “I will be visiting your website. I like the idea of a kindness club and will consider setting one up.” Ysgol Y Llan, Wales “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.” Ysgol Glan Gele, Wales “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.” Kinlet CofE Primary School, Worcestershire “The pack will fit in well with our P.S.H.E unit and also this term's topics about rainforests and sustainability.” Perry Beeches Infant School, Birmingham “Good ideas throughout.” Greenways Primary School, Staffordshire “Love it all – need to implement this.” St Anne's Catholic Primary School, Staffordshire “It fits in with our Mission Statement beautifully - 'let trust, respect and love live here'. Thank you very much!.” St Michael's C of E Aided Primary School, Wolverhampton “Useful ideas for how to help children appreciate and understand what 'kindness' is. Will use these ideas in small groups of children who find it difficult to make/keep friendships and teach how kindness can help.” Stretton C of E Primary School, Coventry “There's not enough kindness in the world! Many thanks!.” Lickey Hills Primary School, Birmingham “Lovely pack! I'll pass it around in our next staff meeting. Thank you.” Devonshire Infant School, West Midlands “All the activities look very child friendly. This pack looks very useful for early years and KS1. We will certainly use the ideas as part of PSHE.” Holly Hill Methodist C of E Infant School, Birmingham “One of our school 'golden rules' is 'Be Kind' so these suggestions will be useful.” Croyland Primary School, Northamptonshire “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.” Somerleyton Primary School, Suffolk “It looks user friendly and the ideas are wide ranging.” Corfield C of E Infant School, Derbyshire “I loved the idea of Activity 7 – Kindness Zone, and Activity 10 – Kind People in History. Certificates is a fantastic idea (simple but effective).” Brockley Primary School, Derbyshire “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.” Kneesall C of E Primary School, Nottinghamshire “What a lovely idea and it brings to the forefront of your thinking about kindness and the acts it might involve.” St Michael's C of E Combined School, Bedfordshire “Thank you for the KS1 ideas – I am sure they will be useful.” Willoughby Primary School, Leicestershire “Some of the activities might be useful in circle time (e.g. vocabulary, quiz, alphabet).” Ridgmont Lower School, Bedfordshire “Wall Chart/Alphabet/Online resources look great – Thank you very much!.” Willoughby Road Primary School, Lincolnshire “We will use this as a supporting resource for our Celebrating Strengths work, one of which is kindness.” Guilsborough C of E Primary School, Northamptonshire “We will use the pack to supplement work on values education. Kindness being one of our values.” Glapton Primary and Nursery School, Nottinghamshire “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!.” Hayfield Primary School, Derbyshire “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!” St Andrew's C of E Primary School, Derbyshire “Brilliant suggestions, thank you!.” Dickleburgh VC Primary School, Norfolk “Thank you – Some good ideas for discussion.” Eaton Primary School, Norfolk “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.” Moulton School, Derbyshire “Variety of activities are useful and can be adapted for each year group. Also, the hints and questions are useful to have.” The Icknield Primary School, Cambridgeshire “We run values education in our school and this resource will help plan different practical activities to support that work. Thank you.” Kirkby Woodhouse Primary School, Nottinghamshire “We have a 'value' of the term and kindness will be one of those in the future. Thank you.” Headlands Primary School, York “We award a 'Kindness Cup' every half term to one child who exhibits these characteristics. This will link nicely to our assembly.” Battle Hill Primary School, Tyne and Wear “This pack could be used across the school in circle time/ PSHE lessons and also links well to S.E.A.L.” Hambleton Church of Englad VC Primary School, North Yorkshire “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!.” St Anne's Roman Catholic VA Primary School, Tyne and Wear “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.” Grewelthorpe C of E Primary School, North Yorkshire “The book has some great ideas.” St Matthew's C of E Primary School, West Yorkshire “We will put this pack with our PHSCE resources and dip into it as and when necessary. Thank you very much.” The Grove Primary School, County Durham “Especially useful for assemblies and PSHE. I like the kindness book activity.” Askern Spa Junior School, South Yorkshire “Good link to PSHE.” West Vale Primary School, West Yorkshire “We will use this in conjunction with SEAL at the beginning of the year to set class ethos.” Edlington Victoria Primary School, South Yorkshire “Thank you. This may well form the basis of some teaching to small groups of children.” Mexborough Pitt Street Infant School, South Yorkshire “Full of good ideas that can be used in an infant school.” Foxfield Primary School, London “We are currently rewriting our curriculum and creating 6 skills and 6 attributes. Kindness will either feature as an attribute in itself or part of another caring/empathy attribute. This came just at the right time! Many thanks.” Charlotte Sharman Primary, London “This is a really simple, easy to use resource. At first, when it landed on my desk I had the usual reaction of 'Yet another PHSE resource' but it's easy to read, pick up and deliver lessons or assemblies from. Especially like the fact that the resources are online and activities are in bullet point form essentially. More suitable for EVFS & LS1 – which is where the need is in our school.” St Raphael's Catholic School, London “Will probably implement kindness activities for World Kindness Day.” Maryland Primary School, London “We found the pack very useful. We have enclosed some photographs of the displays that stemmed from the children.” Braddock CofE Primary School, Cornwall “I am going to use some of the ideas in each section for assemblies. Staff can then use further ideas and reiterate messages in their classrooms! Thank you!.” St Michael's CofE VA Primary School, Dorset “Just what we need! I had needed to talk to my KS2 children last week about how to treat each other. It seems that Facebook/computer games/internet information and films which children have access to confuse children about basic human needs. Thank you!.” Haytor View Community School, Devon “It's fab – it fits with the ethos of our school. Lovely simple ideas which are so easy to implement. Thank you so much!.” St Mark's VA Ecumenical Primary School, Somerset “Overall – very good resource for primary aged schools. As a Family Advisor I run parent and child sessions that always have a theme – good tips for activities such as the kindness wall chart and the class kindness book. Also good sharing ideas for small group work with specific pupils.” Haselbury Plucknett C of E First School, Somerset “I have been using some of the ideas to support SEAL and in whole school assemblies. It is a very successful resource. Thank you.” Dunster First School, Somerset “We will seek to use some of the ideas and activities within our SEAL programme. Thank you!.” Princecroft Primary School, Wiltshire “I am very interested in developing kindness and consideration in my school.” Whitminster Endowed C of E Primary School, Gloucestershire “This looks very useful – thank you. We will certainly use some of the activities to support our values focus. Also we hope to use it with our small PHSE groups that needs to develop the skills of getting on with others.” Rodmarton School, Gloucestershire “We aim to use your pack as part of our ongoing 'Values' assembly themes. Thank you.” Broadstone First School, Dorset “Thank for the kindness resource you sent through recently. The activities have helped me to think of some great ways to support learning about our school values. I'm about to go and look for a school kindness book! Thank you!.” St Bartholomew's Cof E First School, Somerset “We will use this with our PSHE and SEAL resources. Thank you.” Menheniot Primary School, Cornwall “All looks interesting – some good ideas for assembly too!.” Crofton Hammond Infant School, Hampshire “The idea of teaching kindness is something that fits well with our ethos as a school. We will use the resource in our Nurture Group with identified children but it could also be a whole class resource.” Highwood Primary School, Essex “We cannot underestimate the goodness that kindness gives to the giver as well as the receiver. Thank you for producing this booklet.” Springfield First School, West Sussex “We focus on kindness in our Friday assembly. We will use these resources to support this.” Hamstel Junior School, Essex “The activities look good to use during 1:1 and group sessions with learning mentors. Thank you.” St Columba CofE Primary Academy, Hampshire “I particularly like the kindness book and kindness wall chart. We will try it out - probably in the autumn to fit in with kindness day.” Warninglid Primary School, West Sussex “I particularly like the idea of the Kindness Tree which would be a whole school concept. Several of the activities would be useful for our learning Mentor and/or in assemblies.” Hawes Down Infant School, Kent “I liked the accompanying letter - simple and straightforward but acknowledges work being currently done. Clear bulletin layout in book with ideas which can be adapted.” Albury CofE Primary School, Hertfordshire “The parts of the pack I found useful were the activity ideas.” Frogmore Infant School, Surrey “Links to PHSE well.” Heather Ridge Infant School, Surrey “The parts we will find useful are the quiz and wallchart.” Springfield Primary School, Surrey “I found most of the pack useful, depending on the year group.” Ashington CofE Primary School, West Sussex “Ideas for classroom activities and themes we can use in assemblies to support our core values.” William Ransom Primary School, Hertfordshire “We will be using this pack for activity ideas.” Northfields Infants and Nursery, Hertfordshire “A great resource for schools. Have forwarded on to the PHSE coordinator who plans to use in assemblies and circle time and classroom.” Roach Vale Primary School, Essex “We will be using some of the ideas as part of our peer assemblies which focus very much on PHSE.” Bocking CofE, Essex “We found most of the pack useful and will be using it in assemblies/circle time therefore there are lots of possibilities. Thank you.” RA Butler Infant School, Essex “We will be using this in PHSE. An excellent resource - thank you.” Shears Green Infant School, Kent “A super resource. It will be well used in our school for assemblies and in the classroom. Thank you.” William Gilpin CofE, Hampshire “Kindness is one of our core Christian Values for the autumn term so I will look forward to using the pack then. Thank you very much for the pack.” Shawfield Primary School, Surrey “We will use the pack for our values work. Kindness is one of our school values and these ideas will support teachers during the half term when we particularly focus on this value. Thank you.” Wingrave CofE Primary School, Buckinghamshire “We will be linking the pack into PHSE lessons to support our school values.” Manor Farm Community Infant School, Buckinghamshire “We found the kindness book particularly useful.” St Lawrence CofE Primary School, Essex “A super resource - thank you. We will link the resources to our collective worship and follow them up in the classroom.” Green Oak CofE Primary School, Surrey “I like the kindness certificate resources.” Ascot Heath C of E School, Berkshire “The Acts of Kindness Diary looks useful. Thank you for the pack.” Graveney Primary School, Kent “Will be useful for class/school council meetings.” Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic School, Kent “All of it is useful.” Bowsland Green Primary School, Bristol “I particularly like the kindness wall chart and activities to do with determining kindness and what it looks like in practice. The resources look useful also. We will use in class, assemblies and during World Kindness Day celebration (this day was new to me!)” Castle Primary School, Somerset “This resource will support the work of our 'nurture' group as it fits in well with the aims of that group.” Holymead Infant School, Bristol “Useful for circle time and PSHE.” St Stephen's CofE Primary School, Somerset “We look forward to using some of the ideas to run parallel to our own personal and social program.” St James and Ebrington Church of England, Gloucestershire “We work quite extensively on 12 values that we have chosen as a school. Many of our values link with kindness e.g. friendship, compassion and thankfulness. I will pass it on to my RE coordinator.” Rushall CofE VA School, Wiltshire “This will run alongside our PHSE programme.” Rockbeare CofE Primary School, Devon “Many parts will link in with our Values for Life themes in collective worship - a very useful resource.” St Buryan Primary School, Cornwall “Thank you for sending these excellent resources! The kindness book, wall chart, and downloadable resources are all useful.” Trent Young's Endowed Church of England Voluntary Aid Primary School, Dorset “We found most of the pack very useful.” St Lawrence CE Primary School, Gloucestershire “Good ideas for teachers to pick up and run with.” Trinity Church of England Primary School, Gloucestershire “This pack will be useful as part of our values in assemblies and within our SEAL/PSHE activities. I think it could work as a positive slant to anti-bullying week.” Weston All Saints CofE Primary, Somerset “The book is really well laid out with lots of great ideas - we would like to use it in every class so I have requested extra copies so that each class teacher can have one. I like the way that your ideas span lots of different areas of the curriculum.” Blackshaw Lane Primary and Nursery School, Greater Manchester “It is refreshing to know that someone else is thinking about the lack of social niceties that some children have. I have felt disillusioned and old fashioned but today, reading your book, it re-affirmed that manners are a must, and we have a responsibility to teach kindness. Thank you.” Threlkeld CofE, Cumbria “A useful resource, thank you. In this day and age there is a lot of self centred thought (Twitter, Facebook, constant photos of self). It is about time the balance is readdressed. It is good to know that there are organisations like yours around.” All Saints C of E Primary School, Manchester “Kindness is one of our Christian values which were chosen by children, parents, staff and governors. We provide certificates and do assemblies for a 3 week period during the year about each of out 12 values, so this will be very useful. I will use all if it with different age groups. Thank you.” St. John's CofE Infant School, Lancashire “One of our school values is 'kindness' - we have a Values Day Carousel of Activities each year - useful ideas for activities for kindness. Also - it is part of the school social behaviour policy and therefore useful ideas for social emotional aspects of learning resources.” Belle Vale Community Primary, Merseyside “Practical ideas to promote the importance of kindness.” Scotforth St Paul's CofE Primary School, Lancashire “All of it looks useful, especially the online resources.” Horsforth Newlaithes Primary, Leeds “I teach PHSE in school and run the playground/peer mentors. I also cover lessons at short notice during teacher activities so will find the booklet useful for one-off lessons. Not read through all of it yet but it is full of good ideas. Thanks.” Underwood West Primary School, Cheshire “We found all of it useful - we will use it to promote kindness across school.” Marton and District C of E Aided Primary School, Cheshire “All of the pack looks informative. Thank you.” Queensgate Primary School, Cheshire “The parts of the pack I found useful were the suggested activities.” Gawsworth Primary School, Cheshire “Lesson plan looks good. Thank you.” Cambridge Road Community Primary and Nursery School, Cheshire “What an excellent idea! Love this type of thing. The only mistake you made is not including the Henry James Quote: “The 3 most important things in life are...1) to be kind 2) to be kind 3) to be kind.” St. Alban's Catholic Primary, Cheshire “Some lovely activites to promote kindness. Thank you. Cuddington Primary School, Cheshire “This is a simple but useful resource that will be helpful in supporting our PHSE curriculum with ideas. Thank you.” St James' CofE Infant School, Cumbria “We have a kindness cup which is presented to a different child each term. The children are always delighted to take the cup home for a term.” Kirkby Thore School, Cumbria “Lots of sections will be useful for assemblies and circle time.” Hayton CofE Primary School, Cumbria “...it looks very useful and we have been doing some work like this so this is a useful additional resource. Thank you.” Ramsden Infant School, Cumbria “I will be using the pack in assemblies.” Little London Community Primary School, West Yorkshire “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'.” Hurworth Primary School, County Durham “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.” Foredyke Primary School, Yorkshire “I will use the pack to promote kindness and positive emotional well-being. We are working with the Hull mental health project too.” Our Lady and St Brendan's Catholic Primary School, West Yorkshire “Fun and varied ideas for activities to promote kindness.” Nettlesworth Primary School, County Durham “The parts of the pack I found most useful were the practical suggestions e.g. a kindness bulletin board in each classroom.” Cherry Dale Primary School, South Yorkshire “All parts will be useful for children of all ages.” Broadway Junior School, Tyne and Wear “Thank you so much - it was a lovely surprise in the post and we will certainly be taking lots of the suggestions on board.” Thomas Walling Primary School, Tyne and Wear “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.” Eastborough Junior Infant and Nursery School, West Yorkshire “Many thanks - it is useful to have lots of ideas brought together in one easy to access resource pack.” Meanwood CofE, West Yorkshire “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.” Pocklington Church of England Voluntary Controlled Infant School, North Yorkshire “A useful book, thank you. Ideas can be used in classroom and whole school or in a collective workshop.” Netherthong Primary School, West Yorkshire “We will use with our hearing Mentor as she works with groups/inspanidual pupils when they are hurt/upset/having friendship issues!” Normanton All Saints CofE, West Yorkshire “Thank you for sending this copy - much appreciated!” Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School, West Yorkshire “Activities which we will write into our Long Term Plan for 2013/14.” Russell Hall Primary School, West Yorkshire “I will look to using this in our workshop assemblies. Will also pass on to the learning mentor. Thank you for the resource.” West Heslerton CofE VC Primary School, North Yorkshire “Simple nature of each activity page is useful and little preparation is needed. Thank you.” High Green Primary School, South Yorkshire “This is to be used in assemblies.” Keyingham Primary School, Kingston-upon-Hull “Creating a kindness book is something to develop in foundation stage before incorporating the other activities throughout the school.” St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, West Midlands “The practical ideas and hints look useful.” Badsey First school, Worcestershire “Activities that stimulate ideas for the school and classroom. Thank you.” Highwood Primary School, Staffordshire “Aspects relating to the environment look useful.” Bretforton First School, Worcestershire “Thank you for the kindness pack we received in school.” Snarestone CofE, Derbyshire “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.” Somerby Primary School, Leicestershire “Many thanks for the Kindness Pack our school are using this resource and find everything in it very useful.” Great Glen St. Cuthbert's Church, Leicestershire “Will use in assemblies and in our 'Values Day'. Thank you.” Cotton End Lower School, Bedfordshire “The activities will support our PHSE. Thank you.” The st. Faith and St Martin CofE, Lincolnshire “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.” Shelton Junior School, Derbyshire “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.” The Mary Bassett Lower School, Bedfordshire “I am going to use it as part of our 'values' assemblies” Halton Holegate CofE Primary School, Lincolnshire “The kindness zone is a great idea. Looking to implement it possibly before the end of term.” Lyon Park Infant School, Wembley “The activities will compliment our PHSE scheme of work and the values approach therefore I will encourage teachers to use these activities with the children in our infants school. The activities are easy to follow and will be used from Nursery to year 2.” Mottingham Primary School, London “The parts of the pack I found useful were the on-line /downloadable resources. Thank you for sending us the resources.” Queen Street Primary School, Wales “The activities are simple and clear to use. Will be using this to support SEAL in our school.” Ynyswen Infant School, Wales “The kindness book, the quiz, stories and people in history look useful.” Ysgol Gynradd Maesincla, Wales “There are good ideas to use in circle time. We will use these ideas and use them to complement themes.” Holt's Community Primary School, Wales “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.” Eagleswell Primary, Wales “Very interesting with some good ideas in an accessible format.” Jenner Park Primary, Wales “The pack will be used during nurture sessions. Thanks” Trinant Primary School, Wales “We will be using this in assemblies.” Sharnbrook John Gibbard Lower, Bedfordshire “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.” Derwent Lower School, Bedfordshire “Great ideas for values lessons on kindness as part of our values programme.” Umberleigh Community Primary, Devon “There are some super ideas in here to integrate activities across the curriculum. Thank you, a super resource.” St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gloucestershire “Some lovely ideas that staff can dip in and out of. Thank you.” Wembury Primary School, Devon “Kindness club and Kindness letters etc look really useful. The pack has been kept to a simplified form - which is great.” Wembury Primary School requested and received a pack for each of their classes Burnley Brow Community School, Greater Manchester “Thank you for your resource. Just reading the title made me feel happier on this Monday morning.” Springhead Infant and Nursery School, Greater Manchester “Lots of ideas that we will promote through assembly and followed up with circle time activities. Fun ideas that can be used throughout.” Woodside Primary School, Cheshire “This pack fits in perfectly with the ethos of our school - we integrate PSHCE wherever we can and promote a caring community. Our pupils are often from difficult and challenging backgrounds and kindness is a rare commodity in their lives. Thank you.” Scarisbrick St Mark's CofE Primary School, Lancashire “We are currently reviewing the Christian character of the school and this pack will be very useful when examining our Christian values. The suggestions you have given for 'kindness' can be transferred to many values.” Saint Mary's Catholic Primary School, Lancashire “An absolutely lovely resource which I'd love to implement throughout the whole school” Saint Mary's Catholic Primary School requested and received 13 extra packs for each of their classes. Ystruth Primary School, Wales “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.” Broadmeadow Infant School, Birmingham “We will be promoting kindness as one of our values and so use the book theme. The quiz, letter and story activities look useful as well as the online resource list.” Henry Hinde Junior School, Warwickshire “My job in school is as the Learning Mentor supporting children with friendship/emotional wellbeing etc. Thank you for the resource - I will certainly be using it in 'Henry's Den', a nurturing room used by children/parents/staff.” Bournehall Primary School, Hertfordshire “This fits in well with our whole school ethos. It will enhance what we already have in place.” Hempstead Junior School, Kent “This will be useful for assembly ideas - Thank you.” Rayleigh Primary School, Essex “We are taking the idea of a Kindness Day to our school council.” St. Martin's Primary and Nursery School, Kent “The environmental kindness ideas will fit with next term's theme of growth.” Freezywater St George's CofE Primary School, London “The pack has clear aims for each activity. This will be lovely to refer to when 'kindness' becomes our value of the month.” Speedwell Infant School, Derbyshire “We are going to use the ideas for a series of assemblies.” Woodstone Community Primary, Leicestershire “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.” Gunthorpe Primary School, Cambridgeshire “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.” Wensum Junior School, Norfolk “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!” Killisick Junior School, Nottinghamshire “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.” Lawford Mead Infant and Nursery School, Chelmsford “There are lots of helpful ideas and suggestions which I would like to use throughout the school.” - Lawford Mead Infant School requested and received 6 extra packs Lymington CE (Aided) Infant School, Hampshire “Good to know kindness is being more widely promoted.” St Mary's Island C of E Primary School, Kent “We like the cross-curricular and pastoral presentation. We will use this booklet for both our assemblies and PSHE lessons. Thank you for this!” Oldfield Primary School, Berkshire “A really useful resource pack - it can be used in either a classroom setting or in assembies.” Downderry Primary School, Kent “There are many activities we hope to be using in our self esteem group work. Activity 7, kindness zone - particularly useful within our library. Groups of children also hoping to create a kindness tree.” Richard de Clare Community School, Essex “The activities look great and seems good for all ages. Nice to get these ideas to remind us that children do need to be reminded of kindness.” Lee Chapel Primary School, Essex “Lots of great activity ideas to support and enhance our current PSHE, S.O.W. and EHWB as a whole school focus. It will be used alongside Amnesty International's 'Friendship Week' ideas for lessons.” Great Leighs Primary School, Essex “There are some nice ideas that will bring awareness to being kind.” Earls Colne Primary School, Essex “Hope to roll out the Kindness Book with all my classes.” Great Easton C of E VA Primary School, Essex “This looks great - thank you! The lesson outlines look really useful. Would be good as part of a focus for a kindness day or week!” Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Oxfordshire “Thank you for taking the time to develop this pack for schools to use. The activities all look useful!” Haversham Village School, Buckinghamshire “The booklet looks packed with good ideas which promote a slightly different way of looking at 'kindness'. I like the focus and the activities and the online resources. Thank you so much for sending us the pack.” Dearne Goldthorpe Primary School, South Yorkshire “This will be useful as intervention ideas.” Cockton Hill Infant School, County Durham “This pack has been a great help to support kindness within our school. We now have kindness monitors who give out certificates in assemblies.” Berwick Hills Primary School, Middlesbrough “The further resources online are useful.” St Paul's C of E Primary School, Staffordshire “This is an excellent inclusive resource. Our school council is going to use it to plan activities. The downloadable certificates are especially useful.” Canon Evans C of E Infant School, Warwickshire “Thank you for this pack. One of our school rules is 'be kind'. This pack raises awareness and will give our school council some useful ideas to promote kind acts throughout the school.” The Priory Primary School, West Midlands “I shall use the activities with children who require development of personal and social skills.” Herbert Fowler Junior School, Coventry “The suggested activities will fit into PSHE and assembly themes. Some elements of our rewards system could incorporate some of the ideas outlined - children receive 'bricks' on a half-termly basis for showing kindness, support, manners etc.” Combs Ford Primary School, Suffolk “I shall share this with my leadership team ASAP!” Dalestorth Primary and Nursery School, Nottinghamshire “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.” Peakirk-Cum-Glinton C of E Primary School, Cambridgeshire “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.” Fressingfield C of E VC Primary School, Suffolk “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.” Albany Junior School, Nottinghamshire “The ideas are easy to put in place and will get everyone involved!” Kehelland Village School, Cornwall “It is a really good resource that I will be incorporating into our weekly virtues programme. You've included activities that are practical and sustainable, fantastic.” Abbots Langley Primary School, Hertfordshire “It looks great - will be great for our school ethos.” Collaton St Mary's C of E Primary School, Devon “This will be useful as part of our bullying prevention policy.” Southbroom Infants' School, Wiltshire “Initially the pack will be used in our nurture group.” Fynamore Primary School, Wiltshire “This looks like a fantastic pack for our school to use in weekly assemblies.” Newton Primary School, Chester “I like you online stories in particular for assemblies.” Pennington C of E School, Cumbria “I have started using some of the activities in our school assemblies and the children have found them very useful.” Hillside Primary School, Merseyside “We run 'Acts of Kindness' in school and it has had a profound impact on behaviour. Many thanks for the pack.” Prescot Primary School, Merseyside “All the activities can be used across the year groups.” Coppull Primary School and Children's Centre, Lancashire “We will use this with our Learning Mentor as part of our SEAL work. Thank you for the resource!” Moor Nook Community School, Lancashire “Really useful resource. We are using it as a school by delivering several assemblies about different aspects of kindness. This will be followed up by learning mentors and class teachers and by having a kindness area in the school.” Hurst Knoll St James' C of E Primary School, Lancashire “Thanks you for sending this pack to us. It is always useful to have fresh ideas to keep the children interested and aware of how to treat other people respectfully.” Perth Y Terfyn Infants School, Wales “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.” Coastlands County Primary, Pembrokeshire “It is a well set out pack with lots of interesting activities.” Westmeads Community Infant School, Kent “I have photocopied the pages for all staff and am currently using several of the ideas in a small group intervention I run to build up confidence and self-esteem. We have had several interesting discussions about kindness and the activities have enhanced our discussions and been enjoyable for both the children and me doing them. The pack will be useful in future themes across the school as it lends itself to our cross-curricular way of working...A delightful resource and one that is very useful. I will be returning to it again and again!” Bernards Heath Junior School, Hertfordshire “Great ideas! Very useful for PSHE/Circle Time.” Ardeley St Lawrence C of E Primary School, Hertfordshire “The online resources, questions to ask and prompts for discussion look useful. Thank you!” Dallington C of E Primary School, East Sussex “What a lovely resource!” Gorse Ride Junior School, Berkshire “I can see many ways I could incorporate the ideas suggested in the pack. Some of the activities would make great assemblies led from a senior level into the school.” St Nicholas C of E Infant School, Kent “A clear, well written book. The downloadable stories look useful too.” Aylesham Primary School, Kent “We will especially be using the kindness towards people section.” Llanelwedd C.I.W. School, Wales “The online resources and stories will come in handy and will supplement what we are doing.” Garth C.P. School, Wales “Thank you for a lovely kindness pack. We will use this throughout the school.” Overchurch Infant School, Merseyside “We have done a lot on character traits that promote inspanidual responsibility and positivity so this will fit in really well.” Greengate Junior School, Cumbria “All of the book looks good! Looking forward to using the materials.” St Margaret's C of E Primary School, Manchester “This resources looks very useful and we will use it in both key stages.” St Bartholomew's C of E Primary School, Lancashire “The Kindness Quiz is useful - being kind to each other in the playground is always an issue - the children generated a lot of discussion over these statements.” Goosnargh Whitechapel Primary, Lancashire “I will use the pack as starters during whole school assemblies. Catering for age 11 is difficult and this will help. Thank you.” Berkley C of E First School, Somerset “We will use in our PSHCE and RE and in our acts of worship. Thank you very much.” Sutton Veny C of E School, Wiltshire “Thank you for the ideas as some of the resources could be used during collective worship or PSHE sessions.” Stokenham Area Primary School, Devon “We will use lots of the pack as it supports our aim to be kind, safe and responsible whilst pursuing excellence.” Birkenshaw C of E First School, West Yorkshire “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.” Thornhill Lower School, Bedfordshire “I will use this initially with our Yr 4 class and possibly as a resource during PPA time.” Trowell C of E Primary School, Nottinghamshire “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.” St John's C of E Primary School, Worcestershire “We use values as themes for worship...The pack contains a lot of useful material when we cover kindness as a value.” Lapal Primary School, West Midlands “This will help us to address spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues.” Teagues Bridge Primary School, Shropshire “Lots of lovely ideas.”