West Yorkshire primary school spreads community kindness to lucky locals
Fieldhead Primary Academy deliver kindness ‘hug’ cards across Birstall
Fieldhead Primary Academy pupils have recently spread kindness ‘hug’ cards to the local community in Birstall, including police officers, street cleaners and delivery workers as part of their RE lesson ‘How do we show we care?’.
As part of the year group’s RE curriculum, year 1 pupils have been studying stories from the Bible looking at how different religions show that they care for each other.
The inspiration for the kindness cards came after reading The Good Samaritan story and learning about a variety of religious texts, the class discussed who and what might need care such as loved ones, the environment and even strangers.
The class decided to put their learning into practice with kindness cards, each with a message of hope reading “Sapphire Class have been learning about simple ways to show we care and how to share kindness. Here is a little something to show we care!! With love from Sapphire Class at Fieldhead Primary Academy.”
Each pupil was given one envelope to gift strangers in the Birstall community. One resident who had received a kindness card through his letterbox phoned up school to let everyone know how grateful he was after recently retiring.
Liz Hutchinson, year 1 teacher at Fieldhead, said: “I am thrilled with the response from residents and workers who received our kindness cards, the class have worked very hard in their lessons learning all about acts of kindness and how to care for those around us.
“Everyone deserves an act of kindness, and I am so proud of the pupils for spreading some cheer throughout Birstall.
“Our school ethos is to be a great school at the heart of our community, and this was definitely proven by our year 1 class this year!”
Fieldhead Primary Academy forms part of the Focus-Trust – a charitable primary schools trust which is based in the North West of England and West Yorkshire with a vision of providing great schools at the heart of communities where children thrive, achieve and succeed.
