Kindness is more important now than ever, as we are adapting to a new way of living; teaching and learning is even more challenging than it usually is. Schools around the globe are having to adapt to online, hybrid learning or face-to-face learning while dealing with all the uncertainty, fear and devastation that comes with a pandemic. It is crucial that we do our best to nurture a culture of kindness in schools: keep reading to learn some ideas but how to do this in your online, hybrid or face-to-face classroom.
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Shower everyone with compliment notes of kindness:
A simple but effective way to encourage kindness in your classroom is by writing compliment notes! The benefit of having physical notes are that the compliments have a longer-lasting effect. While a verbal compliment is lovely to receive, and shouldn’t be overlooked if the opportunity presents itself, a physical note lives on forever and can be looked back on for years to come. Writing compliment notes is easy enough to do in face-to-face learning (although there are contamination concerns with passing physical objects!) but what about online and hybrid schooling? Sure, you can send messages via text or email, but doesn't quite have the same personal touch as these type of notes…
So what about specialised colouring compliment notes! They are a wonderful option for encouraging students to spread kindness, and come in both printable and digital versions!
So what about specialised colouring compliment notes! They are a wonderful option for encouraging students to spread kindness, and come in both printable and digital versions!
Why are these compliment notes more personalised than a regular note:
These printable and digital colouring kindness notes are easy ways to spread kindness in your classroom, whether online or face to face, and they encourage your students to look after one another and support each other during these challenging times. They’re personalised because someone has taken the time to colour in the note especially for someone else, which adds that extra heartwarming element and act of kindness.
It’s easy enough to physically colour in notes, but what about online classes? Fear not - this brand new style of digital colouring means the notes can be coloured in on-screen. This has a double benefit: students will get the same relaxing experience of colouring, without cross contaminating products, but with the added bonus of being able to personalise and decorate the notes especially for someone else. Knowing someone has spent time decorating the note and thinking carefully about that person wanting to show kindness to them, is what makes these so much more powerful than just an email. Once these have been coloured in on-screen, they can then be digitally sent to friend or member of staff to help spread kindness.
It’s easy enough to physically colour in notes, but what about online classes? Fear not - this brand new style of digital colouring means the notes can be coloured in on-screen. This has a double benefit: students will get the same relaxing experience of colouring, without cross contaminating products, but with the added bonus of being able to personalise and decorate the notes especially for someone else. Knowing someone has spent time decorating the note and thinking carefully about that person wanting to show kindness to them, is what makes these so much more powerful than just an email. Once these have been coloured in on-screen, they can then be digitally sent to friend or member of staff to help spread kindness.
Other ways you can use these colouring compliment notes:
Here are some creative ways that you can use these colouring kindness notes:
1) They can be used like reward coupons to offer students for good behaviour. They can then enjoy colouring the notes in and keeping them as confidence boosters.
2) They can be stored in a “compliment container” and students can take it in turns each day to pick some notes at random each morning. They can read it aloud to the class and select a student who they think would benefit from that note best at the end of the day.
3) They can be scattered and placed in students’ desks, on their lockers, inside library books and hidden in any other remote places that students might find them, thereby offering them some encouraging words of kindness which they can colour and keep.
4) You can keep a bowl of these in your staff workroom to encourage kindness among staff.
5) Cut and pin a range of these notes on a bulletin board for students to take for themselves or share with another student. The idea is that they can end up all over the school lifting spirits of students and staff.
6) Hand out notes to students to colour and write personal notes to others on the back of them. They can be handed out or pinned to a public bulletin board.
7) Set up a Kindness Club and send your members on a mission to colour in these notes then spread compliments and joy to others around school.
1) They can be used like reward coupons to offer students for good behaviour. They can then enjoy colouring the notes in and keeping them as confidence boosters.
2) They can be stored in a “compliment container” and students can take it in turns each day to pick some notes at random each morning. They can read it aloud to the class and select a student who they think would benefit from that note best at the end of the day.
3) They can be scattered and placed in students’ desks, on their lockers, inside library books and hidden in any other remote places that students might find them, thereby offering them some encouraging words of kindness which they can colour and keep.
4) You can keep a bowl of these in your staff workroom to encourage kindness among staff.
5) Cut and pin a range of these notes on a bulletin board for students to take for themselves or share with another student. The idea is that they can end up all over the school lifting spirits of students and staff.
6) Hand out notes to students to colour and write personal notes to others on the back of them. They can be handed out or pinned to a public bulletin board.
7) Set up a Kindness Club and send your members on a mission to colour in these notes then spread compliments and joy to others around school.
To conclude:
As the current climate of education is so challenging and many teachers are either online hybrid or face-to-face during a pandemic, kindness is more important than ever and needs to be taught and encouraged in order to help the mental health and well-being of everyone. A simple tool such as these colouring kindness notes will make being kind an enjoyable experience and will help lift the mood of everyone, creating a culture of kindness in your online, hybrid or face-to-face classroom.
A freebie for you:
If you would like to try out the printable colouring compliment notes for free you can download a sample below:
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