National Children’s Day

On 15 May and the week running up to it, National Children’s Day celebrates the rights and freedoms of childhood, while promoting all the wonderful work organisations and individuals do to help children grow up happy and healthy.

This year the theme is 'Choose Kind'.

To encourage everyone involved to be aware of what kindness ​means, where unkindness comes from, and how it is only through kindness that we can build a more caring and peaceful world.

Schools are encouraged to hold assemblies or host activities on the subject of choosing to be kind, rather than unkind

• The science and biology of unkindness - what makes people unkind and how it affects them and others

• A day of random acts of kindness, those acts to be celebrated after the event

• Lessons on why it's important to be kind and how it makes both the person being kind and the recipient of kindness feel good

• How bullying, judgement and unkindness harm both the unkind person and the recipient

• A short drama around the subject, or encouraging creative writing around kindness and unkindness

• Poems, short stories, blogs, podcasts

• Drawings and paintings that show the impact of both kind and unkind thoughts and actions

Will you be getting involved this to give the children in your lives a wonderful time?

For more information visit: National Children’s Day UK