Chorlton High School in Manchester is hoping to raise awareness and positivity with a campaign to encourage staff and students to commit to 12 days of kindness.
Yesterday, we began our 12 days of kindness!
DAY 1: Smile at everyone you see today and brighten up their day#WeStandTogether #Kindnessmatters #community pic.twitter.com/Kt3kuxRltT— Chorlton High School (@chorltonhigh) December 5, 2017
Chorlton High School have been working hard to help secure a positive feeling throughout the school and outside of the school.
Rachel Quinn, Creative Curriculum Coordinator and Teacher of Drama said: “Last year we raised over £4000 for refugees and we wanted to continue our charity work into the new academic year.
“We have created a community pledge where each year group aims to achieve the goals by the end of the year”.
Headteacher Zoe Morris paired up with Rachel Quinn and came up with the Community Pledge and the ideas for this year.
Chorlton High School feel very strongly about the ‘#westandtogether’ campaign and also raised money for the Manchester fund after the attack on the arena on the 22nd of May.
“The students have been completing the acts of kindness since Friday and all form tutors and heads of year have even driving this in assembly, form time and in lessons.
“Staff have also been completing random acts of kindness and sharing good news and good practice”.
Rachel explained that the high school have always raised money for charity and their local community, but last year was when they decided to start something new and they have included this in every school day.
The students have responded to the act of kindness campaign very well, “The response has been outstanding. We have had emails from local businesses letting us know what out students have been up to.
“We have had good news stories from form tutors and in lessons. Students are also talking about it around the school”.
The inspiration for the ’12 Days of Kindness’ partly came from Rachel Quinn herself, “Last year i volunteered at a refugee camp and I was so shocked at what I saw over in France. I came back and I ran ‘choose love’ to raise money for Help Refugees.
“The students shared my horror and demonstrated such empathy and kindness it was overwhelming”.
Rachel said the students of Chorlton High School are very kind and empathetic.
“Students are not restricted to the daily acts, our aim is for each form to have completed all the 12 acts by the end of the 12 days.
“The idea is to talk about kindness, so that in the future it becomes second nature and we create a school that is kind, caring, empathetic and a school that stands together.
“Both staff and students are fully on board and excited to share the random acts of kindness they have completed.
“It has been amazing!”
The act of kindness for Tuesday is ‘offer to run an errand for someone who needs help. This could be a friend, teacher or a neighbour’.
Chorlton High School update their Twitter account daily to share what acts of kindness they will be doing that day.
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