Kind, Caring and Encouraging

This week has been extra special to the BIS family, as we have been celebrating the BIS Kindness Challenge for 2023. This wonderful initiative was introduced by our amazing school counsellor, Kayla Smith, and is targeted at the Year 4 to 12 students.

The goal is to spread kindness throughout our school this month, ensuring that it is a value our students and staff uphold at BIS.

Students are encouraged to show each other kindness by doing a variety of challenges and tasks. Some of these activities include:

• The Kindness Challenge: There are multiple random acts of kindness that students are challenged to complete. Such as: Write a list of 5 things that you love about yourself or Make sure your pets know how much they’re loved!
• A Kindness Tree: This tree will be popping up on a display board and it is going to blossom with the handprints of students containing kind messages and pictures.
• Mirror Motivation: Teachers will leave a motivational or kind message for students that will be added to the bathroom mirrors.
• Kindness Stone: Students decorate a stone with kind words that will be added to our garden.
• Chain of Kindness: Students had to reflect and write down a time that someone was kind to them. This will be added together to form a long kindness paper chain.
• “Caught you being kind” vouchers: These are given to students when they complete random acts of kindness. This will be kept for a surprise towards the end of the Kindness Challenge!

Class 5RdP has our very own No Drama Llama Award that is handed out at the end of every week to a student that has shown kind, caring and encouraging behaviour.

We look forward to seeing the entire school participate in the BIS Kindness Challenge and spread kindness like confetti!

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely!” – Roald Dahl

Ria du Plessis
Year 5 Teacher and Coordinator