Irish School Replaced Homework With Acts Of Kindness All Through December

Dec 12, 2019 by apost team

If people tried to be more kind to each other, the world could be a better place. A school in Ireland is teaching this to its students during the Christmas season. In December, the students of this school will not have to do homework. Instead, they are assigned to perform deeds of kindness. Throughout the Christmas season, the kids will be upholding the tradition of spreading joy and Christmas cheer.

The kids who attend Gaelscoil Mhichil Ui Choileain are tasked with acts of kindness toward their family, community and other people. The children will record their deeds in a diary every day, and their parents will sign it. The school has upheld this tradition for three years.

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Each year the school chooses a different theme for the holidays. Last year, the children had to express gratitude and keep a diary of things they were grateful for. The most recent theme takes a more proactive stance.

The kids can visit the school website to find ideas for acts of kindness to perform, and the site has a schedule that they can follow to organize their activities. The school suggests that the kids send cards to or visit the elderly. They could visit a relative who is lonely, or help out their parents with chores. On some days, the children could think of some way to perform an act of kindness to make someone's day more cheerful.

The scheduled program also suggests that the kids could undertake an activity to reward themselves that will bolster their self-esteem. The school hopes that this will garner a greater sense of optimism in the children. The children will record each day's activities, and they can also make graphic representations of their actions if they are photographically or artistically inclined.

Another activity that the school is carrying out is a kindness bucket. The children are tasked with writing kind words about their peers and dropping the notes into a bucket. The notes are drawn from the bucket and read aloud on Friday gatherings. A kind word can do a lot to bolster self-esteem, and the school hopes that the children can learn how important it is to say kind things to one another.

The children will also be assigned to develop ideas to improve the community. This is what the school calls the "Class Kindness Act." The Vice Principal of the school explained on Facebook that he hopes the Children will learn to see the Christmas holiday as a time to make a positive impact on the community rather than just greedily looking forward to receiving presents. He points out that some people are in need during the holidays, and some people are lonely and can't celebrate Christmas with a family.

Everyone benefits from kindness, and spreading a little bit of cheer costs nothing. The parents of the students have been supportive of the school tradition, so they happily encourage their children to engage in the activities.

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