How it works
The assembly is eleven slides and takes about ten minutes. It opens with a question about hot chocolate, then covers four research findings with the study named on each slide, why we hold back, and the week ahead.
Everyone writes one honest, anonymous compliment for a classmate on Monday, and reads the one written about them on Tuesday.
Each student writes a postcard to a teacher or another student who has helped them, and it gets delivered that day.
On Thursday students write slips for classmates who helped them. On Friday, World Kindness Day, you pin them all up and read two or three out loud.
For Compliment Chain, each note needs a different classmate’s name written on it before Monday. Read every compliment and every shout-out yourself before it is handed back or pinned up.
Here is the week, day by day. Each morning takes five minutes, and the printables come from three packs already on the site, which you can download below.
Write a compliment
Everyone writes an anonymous compliment for the classmate named on their note.
Read yours
You read them all first, then hand each one to the person it is about.
Send a postcard
Each student writes a postcard to a teacher or student who has helped them.
Write a shout-out
Students write slips for classmates who helped them and put them in a tray.
Shout-outs read out
On World Kindness Day, pin the slips up and read two or three out loud.
A look inside
Get the assembly and the week
The pack is two pages: what to do and when, then the week day by day with what to say each morning and the research behind each slide. The compliment notes, postcards and shout-out slips come from their own packs, and all five downloads are below.
The assembly slides
Eleven slides for the Monday. Every research slide names its source in small print, bottom right.
Download Printable PDFTeacher resource pack
Two pages: what to do and when, then the week day by day, with the research behind the assembly.
Download Printable PDFCompliment Chain
For Monday and Tuesday: the compliment notes, six to a sheet.
Download Printable PDFPraise Postcards
For Wednesday: postcards three to a page, cut once.
Download Printable PDFThe Shout-Out Board
For Thursday and Friday: the board header, the rules and the slips.
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