Our children absorb their world. If a childhood in school is filled with acts of kindness witnessed and received, our children will learn to care for themselves and for others. If a childhood in school is built on relationships of affection and trust, our children will learn to trust themselves and to give to others. The way we go about our lives with them, in the classroom or the playground, fosters our children’s natural generosity of spirit, their ability to work with and for others, and strengthens each child's sense of the difference that they can make.
Kindness begins with understanding ourselves and how we feel about and respond to our world.
They make that difference explicitly when they contribute so willingly to the life of their community and to lives beyond our community, in the committees the children run, in the amazing work they do for charity. And in making a difference to others, they make a difference to themselves. If you want to make others happy, do good to others. If you want to be happy yourself, do good to others. So we teach kindness, a sense of community, an understanding of others' needs throughout the children's lives at school.
Kindness begins with understanding ourselves and how we feel about and respond to our world. The unique Emotions for Learning programme that we have developed over the last decade teaches