The Great Kindness Challenge is dedicated to creating a culture of kindness on campuses nationwide. The students of Red Mill Elementary School are proudly participating in this proactive, positive bully prevention initiative, from Jan. 19 – Jan. 30. All students received a Great Kindness Challenge checklist of different “kind deeds” they could do to show the world that kindness matters.
By the campaign’s end, more examples were flooding in from schools across the division. Click on the gallery below to see just some of the ways the message of kindness was spread.
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- Woodstock Elementary students Triniti and Javiana Blisssett are “crazy for kindness” with their crazy hair during Kindness Week at the school. The school celebrated Kindness Week recently with spirit days centered around the theme of kindness.
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- Cooke Elementary participated in “The Great Kindness Challenge” by collecting more than 550 canned goods. The food was donated to The Judeo-Christian Outreach Center’s food pantry. Kindergarten students Aiden Aycud, Kailey Ott, Apollo Van, and April Hefner-Collier show the school’s work.
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- Thoroughgood Elementary School counselors Michelle Jenkins and Kate Miller designed the “Kindness Tree” for the month of January. The Kindness tree allowed students to write quick notes to say kind words to people in the building. Michelle Jenkins, Keiaira Smeltzer, Elizabeth Merrell, Hunter Thatch, Corentin Calias, Caitlyn Holbert, Will Murphy and Kate Miller show off the tree.
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- Bayside Elementary School recently observed The Great Kindness Challenge Week in conjunction with Spirit Week. On “Crazy for Kindness” Day, special education teacher Rebecca Miller wears crazy “Cindy-Lou Who” hair.
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- The Great Kindness Challenge is trying to get over 20,000 “Kind-Hearted Handprint” artworks from schools nationwide. Students at Corporate Landing Elementary School (CLES) created more than 500 hand prints with individual kindness messages and drawings to participate in this record breaking task. Before sending the handprints off, the CLES “Kind-Hearted Handprints” were organized in a mosaic.
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- Christopher Farms Elementary School participated in The Great Kindness Challenge.
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- Windsor Woods Elementary School joined schools across the nation in celebrating being kind to one another. Students wore ties to signify that we are all “tied” together in showing kindness. Students also brought in donations of ties, belts, and dress shirts that will be donated to the Goodwill Work Program that assists those in need with professional dress attire for job interviews and employment. Showing their ties are second-graders Anthony McVey, Shelby Wallace and Sydnee Ashley.
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- Windsor Woods Elementary School joined schools across the nation in celebrating being kind to one another. Students wore ties to signify that we are all “tied” together in showing kindness. Students also brought in donations of ties, belts, and dress shirts that will be donated to the Goodwill Work Program that assists those in need with professional dress attire for job interviews and employment. Showing their ties are first-graders Gianna Ford, Rocky Frost, Hayden Foster, Gavin Snider, Katherine Dewey, Eli Porter, Alasjah Capers, Aniyah Zoby, James Jackson, Tyson Broadwell and Landon Booher.
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- Windsor Woods Elementary School joined schools across the nation in celebrating being kind to one another. Students wore ties to signify that we are all “tied” together in showing kindness. Students also brought in donations of ties, belts, and dress shirts that will be donated to the Goodwill Work Program that assists those in need with professional dress attire for job interviews and employment. Showing their ties are fourth-graders Sebastian Rosario, Alyssa Johnson, Sierra Braddy, Michael Hatstat and Jini Ricks.
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- Rosemont Forest Elementary School participated in The Great Kindness Challenge. Each student cut out their handprint and wrote in the palm a way to show kindness. Clockwise from top left corner are Diamond Lopez, Nathan Ellis, Tyrie Bandera-Jackson, Sadie Mixer and Jessica Pham.
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- Providence Elementary School celebrated The Great Kindness Challenge by participating in the Largest Collage of Cut-Out Handprints. Students around the world were asked to submit decorated handprints for display at the Dignity Health Hospital located in London, England. Lexi Neels, a fifth-grader, shows several of the hands decorated by students at Providence. More than 450 decorated handprints were sent.
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- Students from the Bayside 6 campus took part in the Be Kind, Do Kind event at Landstown Middle School. Here are Alora Dozier, Nicole Giles, Ciarra Curry, Deziree Conklin, Julia Martin and guidance counselor Robert Lanz.
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- For “The Great Kindness Challenge,” each student at Glenwood Elementary decorated a hand relating to kindness. A bulletin board was created to display their “kindness hands” to go along with Maya Angelou’s quote “Be the rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”
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- For “The Great Kindness Challenge,” each student at Glenwood Elementary decorated a hand relating to kindness. A bulletin board was created to display their “kindness hands” to go along with Maya Angelou’s quote “Be the rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”