World Kindness Day

World Kindness Day is a global celebration which promotes the importance of being kind to each other, to ourselves and to the world. 

Our amazing students at BIS Abu Dhabi spread kindness everyday as it is one of our core values, but on Sunday they were spreading kindness even more so than usual. 

Students and staff came into school wearing yellow, the colour of kindness, and were welcomed into school by music with a kindness theme.

Students began their morning with a brief history of Kindness Day, and Secondary students participated in interactive challenges to encourage discussion about what kindness looks like and how important being kind is to our overall wellbeing and happiness. 

Decorations around the School marked the Kindness Day occasion, and Primary held a Winning Window Competition for the best Kindness-themed classroom windows created. 

Students were encouraged to take part in random acts of kindness throughout the day via an interactive Kindness Wheel, which were situated in both the Primary and Secondary areas of school.

A Kindness Box allowed Primary students to share notes of gratitude to staff and fellow students, including ancillary staff such as the cleaners and security.

A Kindness Tree display in Secondary promoted ‘Kindness in Bloom’ for students to write messages on. It was not just the students who had all the fun of course - staff also had the opportunity to write Kindness notes to share their appreciation and gratitude to each other too! 

“Because that’s what kindness is. It’s not doing something for someone else because they can’t, but because you can.” – Andrew Iskander