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This October schools and nurseries up and down the country will be spreading kindness in their school communities. It’s so easy to take part. Pupils will pick up to nine kind acts using the worksheet we provide, and complete these acts on the first week of October (or another time which suits your school).
Kickstart kindness in your school this October, and watch it spread throughout the year.
When you sign up, we’ll give you access to loads of Kindness Challenge resources including:
- Kindness challenge worksheet for pupils to plan what acts they’ll do
- Case study sheets which can be used with pupils
- Kindness activity sheet
- Colouring in sheet
- Posters
- Assembly plan
- Kindness act ideas.
3 simple steps to take part
Step two
Plan your Kindness Challenge using our free resources and ideas.
Step three
On the week commencing 30th September (or the best time to suit your school) complete your kind acts, raise money and help share kindness with children who need it most.
Fonetti competition
When your school takes part in The Kindness Challenge, you’ll be able to submit your pupils' kindness act worksheets for the chance to win a Fonetti school subscription and have their story published in the NSPCC Kindness Challenge book on Fonetti, the read-aloud app.
"The Kindness Challenge was received so well across our school, including children, teachers and parents. It gave us the opportunity to make kindness the priority during our first term.
Kindness is so important and being able to promote it, using the NSPCC resources, was a great way to get the whole school talking about kindness and actively demonstrating it at playtimes and lunch times.
The children really got onboard with this initiative and were thrilled to be raising money at the same time."
Emily Loveridge, Assistant Head Teacher, St Josephs, Sheffield
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