Our Kindness in School Programme™ (KISP), delivered to primary (ages 5-11) and secondary schools (ages 11-16), is used as an early intervention tool to promote kindness values which help to facilitate emotional intelligence skills in children and young people.
KISP is delivered through experiential workshops that involve students watching high impact short form visual content subsequently engaging in thought-provoking exercises, role plays, creative games, and cooperative learning activities. Workshops are delivered either face to face, in a classroom setting or virtually via Zoom.
Short Films as Learning Tools
KISP aims to put short films (see ITSY) at the heart of children and young people's learning experience that encourages introspection, reflection, cultural and personal development for the following reasons:
A short piece of content can offer a complete narrative in a short space of time, which captures and holds learners’ attention quickly;
Short films tell innovative and creative stories often provoking stronger responses from students;
Our curated short films range between 3-15 minutes that enables students to have detailed familiarity with the film to engage with the material on a meaningful level.
Many short films often make a single statement on subjects such as bullying, racism, human rights, drink driving and sexism which makes them excellent prompts for discussion group work, role play and critical thinking.
Experiential Workshops
Experiential workshops are inspired by phenomenon based learning (PBL) which enables children to connect the dots of the educational material to their everyday lives. Based on this holistic approach, children investigate and explore their answers in a way which builds connection and meaning with the material whilst enabling deeper communication and reflection on what kindness means to them on a daily basis and what they would do differently. Click here to read what children learnt from these workshops.
Kindness Workshops
We have a range of options that may be suitable for you such as 10 weeks of kindness, 5 weeks of kindness or 3 weeks of kindness.
Depending on your kindness journey, you may be aiming to create a kindness curriculum to embed a culture of kindness; bespoke workshops focused on issues such as bullying, racism, self-esteem that is more relevant to your students or perhaps it’s a refresher course at the beginning of term time. Please email info@bekindmovement.co.uk for more information of term times.
