World Kindness Day

Resource type: Event

Price band: Free

Key stage: KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5

Region(s): All of UK

World Kindness Day is celebrated on the 13th November. 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.
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:

Register for a World Kindness Day virtual assembly and download a Schools Pack for KS1 and KS2 from the School of Kindness, who also run virtual and in-school kindness workshops for primary schools.
The National Literacy Trust has created cross-curricular literacy and PSHE resources to help primary schools celebrate World Kindness Day. The resources are based on Charlie Mackesy’s illustrated book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse and include assemblies and classroom activities for KS1/P2-3 and KS2/P4-7.
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.
Anti-Bullying Week 2023 takes place between 13th – 17th November.
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.