The children have been celebrating Children’s Mental Health Week and also Valentine’s. The pre-schoolers have made their own “kindness jar.”

The children were encouraged to recognise acts of kindness by their peers during a group session; they wrote down these thoughtful deeds and placed them in the jar. Throughout the day the adults and children will point out any moments of kindness in the moment and add these to the jar too.

At the end of the week, the children will take out the notes to read and discuss additional ways to show kindness to one another. One child exclaims “my friend shared a dinosaur with me” and writes this down to place in the jar.

The children have also been practising positive affirmations towards each other and celebrating their strengths.