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Be Kind Day

Admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 01:44:17 +0000

National Be Kind Day is a day to spread kindness as far as you can, to be kind to one another and to yourselves. Be Kind Day is a day to stand against bullying, and help bullies to become kind.

Make yourself better, by making others better

If you are kind to someone, it is harder for them to be unkind back. Kindness can be shown in many ways: Give a compliment, smile, ask others to join in, tell a joke, open a door, help with a task, write a note, do a drawing, give a card, pick a flower for someone, speak in a kind voice……. The list is endless.

Remember, bullies have often been bullied themselves. They often don’t know how to make friends, so help them. They are often lonely and don’t know how to join in. Be kind to them, and see what happens.

Do you have Kind or unkind actions? What can you do about it?

2-3 young people EVERY week are ending their lives due to bullying. ROLE MODEL KINDNESS! #standinguptothebullies #nationalbekindday

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Harmony Day 21st March

Admin — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:33:20 +0000

By Barb Bellesini

Cool Text: Logo and Button Generator – Create Your Own Logo

GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOURS THIS HARMONY DAY

This year on Harmony Day why not talk about getting to know your neighbours, workmates and classmates better?? Everyone from 1-101 can do this at their own level. Ask questions about how they are the same and different:

things they like
things they do
their talents
family
holidays
houses
favourite movies
friends
hobbies etc.

Even though we may look different on the outside, on the inside we are ALL THE SAME.

So we should treat each other equally. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

You have to BE a good friend to MAKE a good friend.

Kassi Isaac drawing Qld

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World Kindness day 13th November

Admin — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:19:40 +0000

Do an ‘Act of Kindness’ for someone today It can be as simple as a smile, a ‘hello,’ a helping hand, a compliment….. It doesn’t have to cost anything, and EVERYONE on earth is capable of doing it! Change someone’s life today.

World Kindness Day is celebrated annually on 13th November. On this day, participants attempt to make the world a better place by celebrating and promoting good deeds and pledging acts of kindness, either as individuals or as organisations.

World Kindness Day was first launched in 1998 by The World Kindness Movement, an organisation formed at a 1997 Tokyo conference of like-minded kindness organisations from around the world. There are currently over 28 nations involved in The World Kindness Movement which is not affiliated with any religion or political movement. The mission of the World Kindness Movement and World Kindness Day is to create a kinder world by inspiring individuals and nations towards greater kindness.

Give someone a Compliment today.

Compliments Fill our Bucket

By Barb Bellesini

Compliments Fill our Bucket

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Harmony Day- Every Face has a Place

Admin — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:00:43 +0000

by Barb Bellesini

Each Class has been talking about Harmony Day. We have looked at what ‘Every Face has a Place’ (KidsMatter slogan) means, as well as revisiting Anti Bullying. The seniors and middles made posters, juniors coloured Mandalas and the preps drew themselves playing kindly with their friends.

Every person should feel they belong and are safe.

Every Face Has A Place

Everyone can be themselves

No Bossing

Play with everyone

Ugly, short, doesn’t matter

There is a peaceful place for everyone

Everyone has a right to be in this world- treat everyone equally

Everyone has their own talents to share

Everyone belongs and is welcome

Be friendly and kind

Don’t exclude

Take chances

Include everyone

Everyone counts

Everywhere you go everyone is happy

We are all equal

We are free

We have the right to do things

Be yourself

Leave no one out

Everyone can be happy wherever they go

Everyone has a place where they can be happy

You should be able to fit in anywhere

Everyone has a chance to have a say

There’s always a way to be happy

Someone will always love you

Even if you are from a different country you belong

We are all the same

Every face should be seen

Everywhere you go you’ll belong

Everyone should feel safe

We are all humans, no matter what you look like

HARMONY DAY / ANTI BULLYING DAY

How will YOU make a difference on Harmony Day and every day?

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Acts Of Kindness

Admin — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:31:15 +0000

http://picasion.com/gl/8VSh/ by Barb Bellesini

It was Random Acts of Kindness Day on Feb 17th. What did you do??

Have YOU performed an Act of Kindness today? Have YOU shown kindness to someone else today??

Each child from grade one to six, chose an Act of Kindness to carry out over FOUR weeks. They were expected to do it at least once a day. Some have chosen actions that can be performed more than once a day.

The idea is to make them more aware of how they are treating others and how they are being treated. We read a book about ‘Filling’ each other’s ‘Invisible Buckets’ and how doing acts of kindness to others, actually helps to fill our own bucket as well. When our bucket is full, we are happy, when it is empty, we are sad.

Some of the Acts of Kindness, how the children FELT doing the action and how the recipients felt are listed below. Some of my favourites are: Act: give a hug a day even when I feel angry How they felt: I felt like I am good! Recipients feelings: ‘Phew, I don’t have to nag her!’ (This child did her homework without being asked and imagined what her mum was thinking!)

The grade 6 children made some posters to put around the school to remind people to be kind to others.

http://picasion.com/gl/8VSi/

Some of the ACTIONS
Make my bed; smile more; help people; help set the table; help cook dinner; get up when the alarm goes; go to bed when I’m told; get ready on time; give a compliment; do the dishes; empty the dishwasher; clean my room without being told; play with my brothers and sisters, don’t fight with them; clean my room; spend more time with my family; put my clothes in their place; give a fruit salad massage; listen; fold the socks; help tidy the house; do my chores without being asked; fed the dog or cat; or clean up after the dog; play with people; help people with problems; pray for people; give a hug a day even when I feel angry; help parents around the house.

How does it FEEL?

Juniors: Happy; bored (they didn’t like making their bed!!); great; OK; I enjoyed it; helpful; terrible (When they forgot and fought with their sibling!); normal; good about this activity because people liked it!; like I am good!; nice and helpful; it was really easy but it was hard!; I was happy when I did it; disappointed because I didn’t do it much (I forgot); very happy; really tired but happy; it was fun; I was a bit busy; really great; tired and very, very good; I liked this activity because I like doing chores sometimes; this activity made me less tired (I went to bed when mum said!); I felt like helping everyone; I felt like I loved everyone; good doing this activity because I helped my mum and it helped her a lot; good because I’m used to it (Now gets out of bed with the alarm!); I felt happy and I care about people; really happy and it was easy; I loved it; it made me feel good; it was fun

Middles: My bucket filled up every time; good because my mum praised me; happy because I saw everyone smile; good because I got to help my family; that I should listen; I felt weird; good and happy playing with my cat; playing with my brother was hard; happy when I got to talk to them again; fantastic; really happy to make people feel nice and happy; confident to do what I chose; weird and helpful; better and I also felt like I was making my family happier; mine could have been better; I forgot to do it; caring happy; happy to know my sister and brother were happy; terrible because I didn’t do it much; dumb; very, very, very, very, VERY happy!

Seniors: Very pleased with myself; I feel better; I wasn’t late for school; really helpful; sometimes I didn’t want to help but I did; a bit confused; I don’t see the point; really good to help others; I felt I could do a more meaningful action; happy for the challenge ahead of me; good because I was helping mum; like I was making mum work not as hard; it was hard at some stages; I was kinder to my brother; better and happier and I got along with people better; pretty good sometimes I didn’t want to do it but I pushed myself; happier because my mum was happy; good because I’m making someone happy; cheerful; A little proud I felt like I filled someone’s bucket; happy because I am encouraging my peers and family; tidy and organized; good when I was complimenting others; like I was helping instead of doing my own thing; proud of myself; good because I did it for the family; easier because you get used to it; I thought it made other people feel good; happy to help my parents; very happy when my bucket got full; not very well I think I could have done better.

How did your family / others feel?

Good because they don’t have to do it for me; Happy because they all gave a laugh and a smile; I think my family felt happy; happy because I’m going to bed; my brother is thankful and so is my cat; I think they tried to keep up the good work which was making them happy; good that I made my bed in the morning and say goodnight.

“Phew; I don’t have to nag her!’ shocked; they felt happy because I was doing it; OK; pleased; happy and shocked.

Happy because they felt encouraged; relieved, less stressed; good because it took off the amount of work mum had to do; good because my parents didn’t have to tell me to do it every day; I think everyone was very excited; like they didn’t have to do much; good because they could relax; happy because other people get compliments; relaxed more; 100% good inside! I think when I was quiet they enjoyed it; good because she was getting a hug from me every day.

They smiled when I helped them; Good because they didn’t have to wake me up and my brother and I wouldn’t be late for school; they felt relaxed; not as rushed and thankful!!!; helped happy and not stressed as much; grateful; confused like me; Good because I don’t usually play with her; I’m sure they liked my little idea; the other person felt brilliant; like they had more time to rest; pleased with me; I think other people would enjoy being with me more;

Fill someone’s bucket today!!

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Filling Your Invisible Bucket

Admin — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 11:38:18 +0000

Filling Your Invisible Bucket

By Barb Bellesini

All levels are reviewing or learning about how to ‘fill each other’s invisible bucket’s.’ This makes them feel better about themselves and others. When you fill someone else’s bucket, you also fill your own. Read: ‘Fill a Bucket’ and ‘Have you Filled A Bucket Today?’ by Carol McCloud.

SOME WAYS TO

glitter maker

Give compliments Smile

Let people play Give hugs

Make someone LAUGH Share

Be Aware of others feelings

Help someone Use manners

SHARE Give a cuddle

Let people PLAY Be Fair

Listen Do an Act of Kindness

Speak Kindly Say hello

Ask How are You? Have fun

Fill someone’s bucket today…… and tomorrow….. and the next day …… ?

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Acts of Kindness

Admin — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:00:46 +0000

Acts of Kindness – using our Strengths and Talents to make us better Citizens

A couple of weeks ago our Positive ED teacher gave us a task to do: ‘Random Acts of Kindness’ using the talents and strengths we have: some people have space and vision talents; some have maths and logic; others have word; were a naturalist; or have people or body strengths.

Some of the actions we did were:
writing a story to give to neighbours to read, cleaning up neighbours’ yards, helping to clean the pigeon’s cage,
selling lemonade and lollies to raise money for St Vinneys, washing cars, giving skills clinics, helping Mrs Kaye,
making up a play and entertaining neighbours, singing and dancing for kids at school, teaching maths to other students, doing surveys visiting a nursing home, making an environmental magazine, a bird feeder, walking dogs, making and giving
away handmade pictures and book marks, cleaning parks and school yards, anti-bullying presentations, designing new playground areas, helping teachers, personal questionnaires, maths lessons

Some comments:

Chloe-Our action was to give away art pieces to make people happy. I felt happy to see the smiles on peoples faces when the received the art and it was really fun making the art.

AMBER – My action was to write a story to then share with my neighbours to encourage reading so that everyone loves it. I got feedback both positive and constructive to help my writing. I created a presentation which I then shared with my class and the story is on my personal blog “Amber the Enchanter”.

Tessa and Jamie- Our action was to make lolly bags and lemonade to sell out on the street. We made little cards saying have a nice day or enjoy the rest of your day, and gave them out to people when they bought something.

Katherine and Corinne- Our action was to make corner bookmarks to give as a present to our classmates and expecting nothing in return, just to put a smile on their faces. This made us feel awesome!

Mia-my action was walking people’s dogs with a friend and I really enjoyed putting smiles on people’s faces

Nick- my action is to be nicer to people and make a poster about bullying, I believe that when people receive compliments it makes them happy and feel good about themselves.

Rylee and Raquel – our action was to care for our families dogs. We went to the park walked around the block and had a good time.

Jonathan and Ivan- Our action was to teach the students of St Luke’s maths. If the students needed help to catch up on their work, or if they just wanted to get ahead of their class, they would come to us.

Make someone happy today by doing a Random Act of Kindness

Compliments Fill our Bucket

ePoster Positive Thought of the Week

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Make a Difference

Admin — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:44:31 +0000

Every one of us can make a difference to those around us. When you treat people kindly, then your action will be like the ‘Butterfly Theory,’ it starts small, then it keeps spreading and spreading, and having an effect on many.

Here is a story which was shared with the Seniors, of a young man who made a difference. Each student was then given a Starfish with ‘I make a difference’ on it, to remind them of the difference they make in every encounter with others.

A DIFFERENCE
There was once a young man at the beach,
He appeared to be dancing before the waves breaking on the shore,
A curious Wise Man was watching him- he approached
and asked the young man,“What are you doing?”
“The tide brings the Star Fish onto the sand and the sun
comes up and they burn, I am throwing the Star Fish
back into the ocean,” the young man replied.
“But young man,” said the Wise Man, as he looked
up and down the beach, “There are thousands of Star Fish,
you won’t make any difference.”
The young man bent down, picked up a Star Fish
and threw it into the ocean, He said to the Wise Man,
“Yes, but I made a difference to that one!”
Anon

Big or small:

ePoster Positive Thought of the Week

Compliments Fill our Bucket

ePoster Don’t be a Bystander

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Ways to ‘Dis-empower’ a Bully

Admin — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:36:05 +0000

How can we Dis-empower Bullies??

Bullying is hurtful, if you let it go on, it can change your life. If you are Cyber Bullied or someone bullies you in person, there are ways to help and ways to stop it. You can help yourself and/or you can have others who see it happening help you.

Remember that bullies have often been bullied themselves, could be lonely with few friends, and often have a very low self-esteem– THEY need your help as well as the Victim!

Here are some of the ways the Gr 3-6 students thought of to

TALK– say Stop I don’t like it ;

WALK– walk away from the situation;

TELL– Tell an adult and ask for help

For CYBER BULLYING

SAVE– Print, screen shot, take a pic of the Cyber message for Evidence;

BLOCK– Block, delete and Report the contact;

TELL– tell an adult, show them your evidence, ask for help.

Stand up for the Victim

Step back

Ignore them

DON’T Cyber Bully or bully back

Show the evidence

Write the bully a kind letter, (telling them things that you like about them)

Change their mind

Don’t be a bystander

Get them to join in with you

Build victims confidence- talk to them, get them to play with you

Build the bullies self esteem – tell them about good things they can do, invite them to play with you, be kind to them- you might find they become kinder as well!

Use humour

Listen to both sides- ask Why they are bullying? How can we fix this?

Help to stop the fight

Be nice to them

Be friends with the person being bullied, stand up for them, play with them

Tell them something good about themselves

Don’t be a bystander, get others to help

Ignore and be friends again

Tell your teacher and mum and dad

Invite them to your place to play

Invite them to your birthday party

How will you Dis-empower and help both the Victims and Bullies????

ePoster Don’t be a Bystander

Bullying TALK WALK TELL

ePoster Cyber Bullying

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Filling each other’s ‘Invisible Buckets’

Admin — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 10:28:15 +0000

We all have an ‘invisible bucket.’ When it is full we are HAPPY, but when it is empty we are SAD. To fill someone’s ‘invisible bucket’ and make them happy, you need to be kind to them. Whenever you fill someone’s bucket, you also fill you OWN bucket.

We read ‘Fill a Bucket’ and Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud and Katherine Martin

Here are some of the ways the Preps came up with to fill each other’s buckets.

Can you think of any other ways to Fill a Bucket?

Other resources: go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5R6-2m_qHk to watch a ‘Bucket Filling’ story and there is a cute ‘bucket’ song at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaddbqEQ1NE

HAPPY BUCKET FILLING!!

ePoster Compliments Fill Our Bucket

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