1. What does kindness look like in schools?

2. How kind is your curriculum?

3. When do we reward students for being kind and not just clever?
Where are kindness, charity and benelovence explored and demonstrated in classrooms?
When do we reward students for being kind and not just clever?
How do we praise schools for educating hearts and not just minds?

4. You are what you do Staff and students will be rewarded for kindness
With the ‘You are what you do’ Badge
‘You are what you do’ Certificate
a secret special celebration event in the Christmas term

5. Why ? Reward and celebrate good behaviour Build a culture of kindness
Develop relationships and rapport
Allow ‘bad’ kids to do something good
Manage behaviour “remember – ‘you are what you do’ “
Bank positive experiences
Save yourself time and energy
Promote responsibility and community
Teachers and students as part of a team
Do something fun
Value the little things
Set a good example
Feel happy

6. #youarewhatyoudo Handing in a lost £10 note
Reassuring a friend who was obviously upset
For helping a class mate around on her crutches all week
Fantastic manners and caring attitude
Superb support of her peers every single day in English lessons. A credit to the class!
Gave fellow student who was diabetic his double decker chocolate bar as her blood sugars were low and could have gone into 'shock' state. Excellent humility to see.
Amazing help every day without being asked
Often offers to carry bag upstairs for me. Very kind and polite
Standing up to a bully and lost friends over it. A brave student!
Assisting a student who had a bad nose bleed, cleaned him up, etc.
Knew my nephew was starting football sticker book so brought his swaps in
This student helped out with washing up, took the washing up off of me and did it for me, he offered to clean up other students work areas, taking other students dishes off them and washed and dried them up
Random Act of Extreme Kindness!!! – bought me flowers!
Amazing help without being asked
Superb ambassador for the academy referred by a visitor
Lovely, genuine 'How are you? Did you have a good weekend Miss?' upon entering the lesson
Holding the door open for other students. Always has consistently good manners and very polite and respectful to everybody.
Helping at crash in Hemsworth
Doing great work for her chosen charity, and being a polite and happy individual
Secret gardening project helper
holding the door and letting me through when all the other year 9’s barged past
compassion to others, patience and kindness to both peers and staff.
always staying to help me collect books even at 2.45.

8. Kindness Bingo There is a specific reward for kindness at my school
I can recall my schools values / mission statement
There is a specific reward for kindness at my school
There is a school council
The schools mission statement is written in big letters in the hall
I know who is on it
Children know the school values / mission statement
They do things
I refer to my schools values in my lessons
There are more than just a ‘charity’ day which is £1 non uniform day
We promote kindness by...
Parents know the schools values / mission statement

9. Consider: We promote kindness by....

10. Measure kindness?
MEASURING KINDNESS AT SCHOOL: PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF A SCHOOL
KINDNESS SCALE FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Psychology in the Schools, Vol. 00(0), 2015
JOHN TYLER BINFET
University of British Columbia, Okanagan
ANNE M. GADERMANN AND KIMBERLY A. SCHONERT-REICHL
University of British Columbia

11. In the same way that children need to be taught how to hold a knife and fork, tie shoelaces, analyse Shakespeare, or do long division;
...so too are empathy, kindness, benevolence and charity; traits that need to be taught. 

12. The Hidden Curriculum
“the prevalence and modelling of kindness, as seen through students’ perceptions, can be seen as salient factors contributing to the creation of a positive school climate and culture”
JOHN TYLER BINFET University of British Columbia

13. “It’s nice to be nice...
...happy children do better”
Me, 2018

14. The Hidden Curriculum Why?
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15. Helping Hand is a student run volunteer charity offering bespoke support for people who need it the most in our area
This year the charities focus is people in need and is working in collaboration with
Westfield Foodbank in South Elmsall
Soup 4 Em in South Kirkby
Age UK in Wakefield

16. Review – Helping Hand Logos
The student council were looking for a logo for our charity ‘Hemsworth Helping Hand’
In Design Tech Y7 Students were challenged to design a new logo and these were the winners

17. Students hosted visitors from Age UK and Hemsworth Water Park Care Home as part of their own charity drive: 'Hemsworth Helping Hand'
Employees, volunteers and clients from the two places had tea and cakes and good chat with students and teachers.
The volunteers talked to the students about the experience and how it helps those who are lonely keep in touch and feel less isolated. They also talked about volunteering is beneficial to themselves as volunteers giving a sense of purpose reward, and fun!
The elderly visitors who use the charity and the residents of the care home were relaxed and chatty and clearly enjoying the time out. All the visitors said how important it was to make sure different generations interact and how heart warming it had been to share stories and visit the school. They talked about how the support from the charity and the home were an enormous source of well being

18. Review – Afternoon Tea

19. As part of their own charity drive: 'Hemsworth Helping Hand‘ one was collecting donations for homeless soup kitchen ‘Soup 4EM’ Feeding the homeless and their dogs in South Kirkby. Soup 4 ‘Em provide a safe warm place, shower facilities and hot meals at least three days a week.
And also The Westfield Centre food bank, on Westfield Lane, South Elmsall who are “a totally independent food bank made up of volunteers and who have to raise produce and funds from the local community.”
On Wed 5th April Student Council reps visited the two premises to hand over their donations and learn more about what they do.
Volunteers from both organisations talked to the students about their experience of volunteering and the reasons behind it. Two years ago there were 6 foodbanks across the Wakefield district… now there are 23. One particular volunteer explained how he had been made redundant from the local coal mines and began volunteering as a way to develop new skills. He went on to gain employment in the charity / community sector and contribute significantly to the re generation of the old mining communities. Work that gained him an MBE from the Queen

20. Review – Helping Hand
SOUP 4 EM – South Kirby

21. Let’s say we have to teach all our content linked to this helping hand project?
Where is your curriculum in a project like this?

22. Food Tech – create menu for Age UK lunch club
Maths – fundraising graphs, gift aid percents, review statistics from BBC R4 loneliness project
Art – Design logos for new school kindness award
PE – Invite local childrens charity for a friendly match
Music – write protest songs
Business – explore charities status restrictions and advantages
English – write poems for wellbeing, vocabulary / spellings, persuasive writing
Science – learn the difference between lone and gregarious animals in Biology
Drama – create educational theatre pieces about the dangers of loneliness

23. 13th November 2018 - World Kindness Day February 2019 - Student Volunteer Week

24. Some ideas
Some tips
Create a kindness award: Regular and visible recognition for acts of kindness. Design a logo in lessons.
Secret Gardeners or Cake Club: Under the cover of home time, revamp school spaces with flowers, pot plants, herb gardens and vegetable patches. Alternatively, anonymously deliver buns and cakes to staff and classrooms.
Chatting and coffee morning: Contact local charities and invite them into your school / arrange visits in the community.
Care Home Christmas Choir: Sing for the older people as a Christmas treat.
Culture Cures Hospital Postcards: In Art or English, Tech or PSHE, make positive postcards with poems / messages to be posted to hospital wards
Recruit a small but strong team of students and teachers
Link local charities / campaigns where possible
Inform parents
Use school website / twitter
Highlight in lessons and plan work to complement the initiative
Regular review / celebration

25. We teamed up with the BBC to bring some Radio 4 staff into school to speak to Y7 students and explain the BBC Listening Project to them.
BBC Radio 4 Listening Project Team visited school with their touring mobile recording booth to record some Y7 conversations and showcase the recording process to students.

26. Useful links http://kindnessuk. com/ https://www. randomactsofkindness
@WakeyDramaPaul