Children’s Mental Health Week

Kindness and Children’s Mental Health

Why Kindness?

Kindness is a simple way to help EVERYONE. When we are kind to each other, it helps us to feel connected, which means we forge new friendships or deepen existing ones. Using our voices to spread kindness is an incredibly powerful thing that can change lives and create a kinder world. What we say matters. 

Research has also shown that when we’re kind, when someone is kind to us or even if we just witness kindness, our bodies release feel-good hormones which lift our mood, giving us what’s known as a ‘Helper’s High’. It’s also been shown that people who are kind have much lower stress levels, age more slowly and have healthier hearts. Kindness isn’t just a nice thing to do, but can help us improve our own well-being, while helping others at the same time. And Children’s Mental Health Week is a perfect time to start!

Children’s Mental Health Week Virtual Assembly

We are hosting a live virtual assembly for Children’s Mental Health Week.

Date: Monday 5th February, 2024.
Time: 9.15am
Running time: 30 minutes
Suitable for: Key Stages 1 and 2.

Children’s Mental Health Week
Resources for Teachers

Lesson Plans
We have a range of free video lesson plans focussed on all aspects of kindness, which are a great resource for Children’s Mental Health Week. They cover topics such as the impact kindness has on our physical and mental health, the importance of self-kindness, and how kindness can help us connect with others. Our lesson plans are designed for Key Stage 1 & 2, and meet many of the aims and objectives of the PSHE curriculum.

Resources for children

Kids’ Kindness Club
Join our free Kids’ Kindness Club and you will receive a fortnightly email newsletter with Kindness Challenge, kind stories, competitions, quizzes, activities and the chance to earn your Kindness Badge and win prizes!

Activity Sheets
Illustrator and author, Stacie Swift (who is also our ambassador) has designed a Children’s Mental Health Week Activity Sheet especially for the School of Kindness.
Download the Children’s Mental Health Week activity sheet here

We also have a self-kindness activity sheet to help children think about the ways they can be kind to their minds.
Download the Self-Kindness activity sheet.

Kindness Calendar
Our Kindness Calendar can help you to get into kind habits – you’ll be spreading kindness for a whole month! Activities include being kind to yourself, being kind to others and being kind to the planet.

Kindness Books
Browse a selection of some of our favourite kind books.
Browse Kindness Books

Self-Kindness Tips for Children
Our Self-Kindness page is all about why it’s so importance to be kind to our minds. Read 10 things we can do to help look after our mental health.

Kindness Workshops 

Our Kindness Workshops teach children about the science of kindness and the amazing impact it has on our mind and bodies. In our free kindness workshops we show children that the little choices they make every day have the power to make a difference – both to others and to their own well-being.

Our workshops are run both face-to-face and virtually and are most suitable for Key Stage 1 & 2. The workshops are provided for free, thanks to the kind sponsorship of NBB Recycled Furniture.