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
Objective: To explore how it feels to receive kindness, and understand that kindness can help our wellbeing.
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan, PowerPoint presentation, Video, Positive Words Activity Sheet and Fortune Teller Activity Sheet.
‘The Power of You’ Lesson Plan – with best-selling author and poet Donna Ashworth
Objective: To help children recognise the positive impact they have on those around them.
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
Objective: To understand that kindness can help us to feel connected to other people.
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan, PowerPoint and Emotions Match-Up Activity Sheet.
Lesson Plan – Offering Kindness
Objective: To reflect upon how it feels to be kind. To know that being kind to others can help us to feel positive too.
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan, PowerPoint presentation, Video and Famous Quotes Activity Sheet.
Lesson Plan – Kindness is good for the body
Objective: To understand how kindness is good for our health.
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan, PowerPoint presentation, Video link and an activity sheet – Body Booklet.
Lesson Plan – Learning Together…Kindness Helps us Learn
Objective: To understand that kindness helps us learn together.
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan, PowerPoint and 2 activity sheets – Team Games and Kindness Skills.
Lesson Plan – Kindness helps us work as a team
Objective: To understand that kindness helps us work as a team. To consider how we can create a kind and supportive environment in our classroom.
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan, PowerPoint presentation, Video and an activity sheet – Scenarios.
Lesson Plan – Looking for Kindness
Objective: To notice all the small acts of kindness that happen every day. To understand that seeing kindness helps us to feel positive
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan, PowerPoint presentation, and activity sheet – Kindness Glasses.
Lesson Plan – Being kind to myself (20min lesson)
Objective: To know that it is important to be kind to myself as well as to others. To be able to generate a feeling of kindness and calm within myself.
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan, PowerPoint presentation and Meditation audio file.
Lesson Plan – Self-Compassion
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan 8, PowerPoint presentation, Teacher’s Notes, and activity sheet – Compassion Wheel.
Lesson Plan – Kindness spreads
This download pack contains: Lesson Plan 9, PowerPoint presentation, and 2 activity sheets – Kindness Cartoon and True or False exercise.
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


