Phew! What a start it has been…!

Wow… I can’t believe what a crazy but amazing first couple of weeks this has been. Only week 3 but we have been everywhere!

Lets take it back to the first week, what a week that was. Students returned and got straight back into crew and did what we do best: had a big old catch up!! This is where it was revealed that we would be doing a ‘microadventure’ for the first week. Our microadventure in year 8 was all based on the quality of kindness and how we can show this to ourselves. each other and the wider community. We shared ideas and started on making gifts and little acts of kindness to hand out to people in our local community at Lakeside! Below you can see some of the gifts we made as a crew…

Our trip out to Lakeside was very nerve racking for a lot of us as it was hard to imagine speaking to and showing kindness to people we didn’t know. A few of us from crew needed to show a lot of courage and put ourselves out of our comfort zone. In the end, everyone managed to speak to someone at Lakeside and I could not be prouder of the crew. The feedback from the community was so positive and a lot of people were amazed and overwhelmed by the kindness that they felt from the kids. It is great that we can spread positivity in these times!

Here are some quotes from crew about what they believe kindness is and how important it is for our community:

Holly – Kindness is something everyone should do all the time. I think i made their day because it is also/could be the little things like a small gift to make someone happy.  If everyone was kind, it would stop a lot of problems and hate that is happening around the world.

Liam – I can be kind by helping other people out be that if they are a student or staff. I also always try to stay polite in any situations possible.

Nik –

I felt proud when i was handing out my kindness gifts as i was very nervous and anxious at first.

Kindness for me is very important because without kindness the world would be a dull and scary place and without kindness the people would be selfish and mean so thats why kindness is very important.

Lukas – Kindness is a source of happiness formed from doing a kind task.

Lily H – Kindness is doing something for others and Caring for others and just smiling at people.

Max – When I gave my gifts to people I felt warm and good that I had done something kind to someone and maybe made their day. I feel like they would be more impressed by XP as we were being kind and helpful to people so they would be impressed. I think that kindness impacts the world because it makes people more kind and polite. I will be kind at school by following my HOWLs and treating everyone equally and listen and be polite to everyone.

Fantastic reflections from a fantastic crew, well done guys on your first week of year 8!