Bimbadeen Heights Primary tries lessons in kindness
BIMBADEEN Heights Primary School has become the first school in Victoria to incorporate World Kindness Australia into their yearly curriculum.
The decision was sparked by Mooroolbark woman Lisa Currie’s quest for world kindness through her Ripple Kindness Project.
Concerned about the destructive path children can take in their teenage years, Ms Currie launched the program to teach them the importance of sharing kindness.
Inspired by the 2000 film Pay It Forward, Ms Currie developed free cards for adults and children that encourage the recipient to do three acts of kindness for another person.
The Weekly first spoke with Lisa Currie in June as she was piloting her Ripple Kindness program across primary schools.
“Since June I have extended on program by creating programs tailored to each year level,” she said last week.
Preps and grade 1 pupils will take part in a bucket-filling concept, grades 2 to 4 will use the kindness cards and grade 5 to 6 will use a more sophisticated method of bucket filling.
“Bucket filling refers to filling up somebody’s imaginary bucket with an act of kindness,” Ms Currie said.
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