Empathy Action Month
From EmpathyLab
Resource type: Event
Price band: Free
Key stage: KS1, KS2, KS3
Region(s): All of UK
November is Empathy Action Month and an opportunity to encourage young people to put empathy into action and to focus on how they can make a difference, however big or small.
Each week of Empathy Action Month 2024 has a different theme supported by book recommendations and posters, author videos, short stories and a teachers’ guide:
- Friends and Family
- Community
- The Environment
- Our World
Cost: Free.
About EmpathyLab: EmpathyLab was founded in 2014 by Miranda McKearney OBE, Sarah Mears MBE, Craig Hill and Caroline Scott. Its aim is to develop children’s empathy and social activism through stories in order to build a more caring world.
Further resources:
- Sign up for a Reading for Empathy CPD webinar on 14th November exploring how empathy-rich books can be used to develop children’s understanding of relationships. Cost £70 per person.
- Chosen by a panel of experts every year, the Read for Empathy Book Collections feature books designed to encourage young readers in primary and secondary schools to see the world through somebody else’s eyes.
- CLPE’s Corebooks and the Book Trust website both provide booklists that cover empathy and kindness.
- Find out more about Empathy Lab’s Affiliate Schools Programme to help embed empathy as a core skill and practice across the whole school community.
- Put empathy into action by running a Readathon sponsored read that will raise money to provide books and storytelling events for seriously ill children in hospital while also promoting reading for pleasure.
- Other events in the literacy calendar that provide an opportunity to explore empathy further include Empathy Day, Empathy Week, World Kindness Day, Anti-Bullying Week, Children’s Mental Health Week and Refugee Week.
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