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:
- Book a virtual or in-school 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.
- Find ideas for whole-school, class or group activities to celebrate Kindness Day from Kindness UK.
- Award-winning author Nathanael Lessore considers how reading can open discussion around what it means to be a man in today’s society and help boys and young men challenge ideas of toxic masculinity in this BookTrust blog.
- Find picture book recommendations and a middle grade booklist on the theme of empathy and kindness from BookTrust.
- Explore the Kindness booklists from Books for Topics for more recommendations for primary aged pupils.
- The Anti-Bullying Week 2025 and EmpathyAction Month calendar entries also include resources to help promote kindness and empathy.
- Explore the positive impact that helping others can have on wellbeing with young people aged 11-14 with the Helping Others for Better Wellbeing lesson plan from the BrainWaves wellbeing curriculum. Free with registration.
- 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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