Random Acts of Kindness Day
Resource type: Event
Price band: Free
Key stage: KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5
Region(s): All of UK
Random Acts of Kindness Day is celebrated on the 17th February. It is a day to promote and celebrate kindness in all its forms.
The website of the US-based Random Acts of Kindness Foundation has resources that can be adapted for use in UK schools, including:
- Ideas for games and activities to foster kindness and develop social emotional skills.
- Details of their Kindness in the Classroom® curriculum based on their six core kindness concepts: Respect, Caring, Inclusiveness, Integrity, Responsibility and Courage. The are teaching resources to cover all ages from reception through to secondary, including an annual School Kindness Calendar.
- Kindness quotes, posters, bookmarks and certificates
Cost: Free or free with registration.
About the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation: The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation is a non-profit that believes that kindness can be taught and is dedicated to making kindness the norm.
Further resources:
- Book a free in-person or virtual Kindness Workshop for your primary school and explore the range of lesson plans, poems and other resources available from the School of Kindness. Resources are free with registration.
- Encourage and reward kindness in your school with the Mini Kindness Award Packs from the School of Kindness, free to download with registration.
- Celebrate kindness in your primary school by nominating a pupil, a class or your whole school for this year’s National Kindness Awards. The award is open to all primary schools in the UK and nominations close on April 25th 2025.
- Find ideas for whole-school, class or group activities to celebrate Kindness Day from Kindness UK.
- CLPE’s Corebooks and Book Trust both have booklists that cover empathy and kindness.
- Best Books for Schools also offers a selection of books for KS1 and KS2 on the theme of Kindness.
- Encourage pupils to think of others and promote reading for pleasure by running a Readathon sponsored read to raise money to provide seriously ill children in hospital with books and storytelling events.
- Find further book recommendations and other resources to support mental wellbeing in the Mental Health and Empathy section of the website.
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