![]() “I think that it is important because when you are doing the activities you are exercising and reaching a goal but also you are a part of a really special initiative.” “Not only is it encouraging when you want to reach your goal but also it is something that we can all do together,” she said. Year 6 student Georgia Y said that she thought the Walk for a Kinder World was “amazing”. “We get to do things that are important – we give to others and help them.” “I feel really proud to be a Kindness Captain,” Anika said. Year 4 Kindness Captain Melanie X said she felt like she was “making a difference”, while Anika V, year 4, said being a Kindness Captain is “a wonderful and special opportunity.” Staff members as well as the 503 students in the junior school will be participating in the month-long walking event. “Whether that was them helping out at home, surprising parents by laying the table, doing their household chores without being asked, or whether we did messages in a bottle where they upcycled plastic bottles and just dropped them on doorsteps of people they will never know, or see, but they left messages of hope and kindness in these plastic bottles the children had decorated.” Our theme for term 3 was ‘kindness is my superpower’ so the girls were thinking of ways that we can spread a message of kindness and therefore spread a message of hope through our community. “Our Kindness Captains were more active than ever,” Ms Brown said. Last term they spent the whole term online, with students swept up in Sydney’s 15-week lockdown. Media_camera Fly High Billie’s Walk for a Kinder World honours the memory of Billie Kinder, pictured, by encouraging children to spread kindness with every step they take.Įach class in the junior school at PLC has a Kindness Captain, who is elected by her peers. Everyone can see the moon, so why not try to walk, swim and run kindness all across that distance? Imagine what a difference that would make to our world.” Space is something that captures children’s imagination and the concept of going to the moon is super exciting. I’m really hoping this year that other schools join in. ![]() Obviously flying into space is high in the news at the moment with some of our billionaires doing it and we thought we would rather launch kindness. “We study space as part of our curriculum in junior school and they’re fascinated by the whole otherworldliness, so we thought, ‘Let’s launch ourselves to the moon’. “Our mission is to help spread kindness throughout the world … why not throughout the entire universe?” she said. Ms Brown said that outstanding result made them wonder what else they could do and how much further they could go. The school’s Kindness Captains are helping other students co-ordinate their walking and fundraising efforts.Ĭhallenged to walk to England for the inaugural* charity event last year, PLC students ultimately* reached the equivalent of circumnavigating* the globe. PLC is “walking to the moon” in support of the Walk for a Kinder World. Media_camera Year 6 student Eliza is a Kindness Captain at Sydney’s Pymble Ladies’ College. “Simple acts of kindness have such a significant impact on others but also on your own sense of self, so it’s such a powerful tool, emotion and concept … that we can give to our world each and every day.” “Kindness is something that translates into any language, into every action and every person, whether they’re old, young – wherever you’ve come from, you can choose to be kind. “I just think now more than ever, with the way the world is, that we need to empower our young children with a sense of voice and hope,” Ms Brown said. Head of Junior School at Pymble Ladies’ College (PLC) Kate Brown said she chose to get involved with the Walk for a Kinder World because she was a big believer in the power of kindness. “What better way of sharing could there be than to release ‘lockdown’, from so many turning keys, opening every lock to make a giant open door for kindness?” ![]() “It provides a process that’s very accessible*, with each student able to select the level of their own contribution, to celebrate and to make their own difference from. “The event expresses such a beautiful and communal purpose,” he said. Head of Junior School at Arndell Anglican College Keith Peterson said that they were “very keen” to invite all students to participate in the event. Mr Petersen is pictured with a Fly High Billie card, with artwork by Billie Kinder. Media_camera Arndell Anglican College junior school principal Keith Petersen is encouraging all staff and students to participate in the Walk for a Kinder World.
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