KEY STAGE 2 – KINDNESS
(Suitable for ages 7-11)
These lessons support many of the aims and objectives of the PSHE curriculum for relationships and health education in primary schools.
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Lesson Plan – Receiving Kindness
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan, PowerPoint presentation (updated for 2025!), and 2 activity sheets – Positive Words and Fortune Teller.

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‘The Power of You’ Lesson Plan – with best-selling author and poet Donna Ashworth
This download pack contains:
‘The Power of You’ Lesson Plan and activity sheet, plus a PowerPoint presentation which features a video of Donna Ashworth reading her poem ‘You’.

Lesson Plan – Connecting With Others
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan, PowerPoint and 1 activity sheet – Emotions Match Up Cards.
Lesson Plan – Offering Kindness
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan, PowerPoint presentation, and activity sheet – Famous Quotes.
Lesson Plan – Kindness is good for the body
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan, PowerPoint presentation, and an activity sheet – Body Booklet.

Lesson Plan – Self-Compassion
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan 8, PowerPoint presentation, Teacher’s Notes, and activity sheet – Compassion Wheel.
Lesson Plan – Kindness helps us work as a team
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan 5, PowerPoint presentation, and an activity sheet – Scenarios.
Lesson Plan – Kindness spreads
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan 9, PowerPoint presentation, and 2 activity sheets – Kindness Cartoon and True or False exercise.

Lesson Plan – Being kind to myself
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan 7, PowerPoint presentation and Meditation audio file.
Lesson Plan – Looking for Kindness
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan 6, PowerPoint presentation, and activity sheet – Kindness Glasses.

Learning Together – Kindness Helps us Learn
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan, PowerPoint and 2 activity sheets – Team Games and Kindness Skills.

Understanding Emotions
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan, PowerPoint and 1 activity sheet – Feelings Forecast.

These lessons were produced in partnership with Fern Taylor. Fern worked as a primary school teacher for 7 years, co-ordinating both literacy and PSHE within her school. She is also the author of ‘Here and Now: an interactive mindfulness book’ published by HarperCollins. You can find her on Twitter @FernTaylor8 and Instagram @Taylor.Fern