With World Kindness Day falling on 13 November, just before Anti-Bullying Week, primary schools have a chance to explore how small acts of kindness shape a school community.
World Kindness Day, on Friday 13 November, falls just before Anti-Bullying Week (16–20 November). For many primary schools, that timing makes it a useful starting point for a wider conversation about how pupils treat one another.
Kindness is often discussed in general terms, but teachers looking to make it concrete can draw on free resources from Premier League Primary Stars, which use football to explore what kindness looks like in practice, from the words pupils choose to how they respond when someone is being treated unfairly.
Kicking Around Kindness asks pupils to consider how their behaviour affects others, covering what bullying is, how to report it and the impact words can have. It combines a classroom presentation with a physical activity session, which can be taught together as a PSHE lesson or separately.
In the Spread Kindness Challenge, Dr Alex George explains in a short video that kindness benefits the person showing it as well as the people around them. Pupils then draw acts of kindness they could carry out, before putting them into practice.
Other resources look at kindness as something active. Power for Good, created with the Anti-Bullying Alliance, explores the role bystanders can play when they see bullying. No Room for Racism: Allyship, for Key Stages 1 and 2, introduces the idea of being an ally, with a film in which Premier League and Women’s Super League players discuss diversity and allyship.
A Diversity Lead at a school in London said of the programme’s resources: “…the fact that the resources are engaging, make the subject relatable and are easy to use enables us as teachers to facilitate discussions on important topics…”
The resources are free for teachers who register with Premier League Primary Stars.
About Premier League Primary Stars
Premier League Primary Stars uses the appeal of football to inspire children aged 5 to 11 to learn, be active and develop important life skills. It offers free, curriculum-linked teaching resources and is available to more than 19,000 primary schools across England and Wales, with over 83,000 teachers registered.
