From the Primary School
B Kinder Day
What a better way to end Term 2 than celebrate B Kinder Day! The school was a buzz of colour and excitement as the girls arrived through the gate in their best rainbow coloured outfits ready for a day focusing on spreading kindness far and wide!
This is now the fourth year that SCEGGS has celebrated B Kinder Day and it is certainly becoming one of the favourite days in the Primary School calendar. The girls know that kindness is a value that is very important to us and one that should be focused on every day not just one day a year. However, this day allows us to think more deeply about how we can be kind to ourselves, the environment and other people from both within and outside our community.
This year the symbol for the day was a sunflower. The girls worked in their classes to make various versions of this bright flower and inside wrote a pledge that showed how they intend to spread kindness. The flowers displayed together certainly gave our playground a wonderful pop of colour and put a smile on my face each time I walked past. Some of the pledges included:
“I promise to be kind to everyone new or old and never say an unkind word.” – Olivia Liu (Year 6)
“I will be kind by smiling to others.” – Isabelle Lee (Year 3)
“I will help anyone who is hurt or sad.” – Aleisha Yeung (Year 4)
Another activity during the day saw the girls put together hampers of goods to donate to local organisations. Before putting the hampers together, the girls learnt a little bit about what these organisations do to help those in need and why their donations would be so helpful.
Kindy, Year 1 and Year 2 created boxes of gardening equipment to go to the Community Garden at Hope Street Baptist Care in Woolloomooloo. Years 3 and 4 put together hampers of toys, books and craft supplies for the children who go to the After School Program run at Hope Street Baptist Care, where some older SCEGGS girls volunteer. Years 5 and 6 created beautiful hampers of toiletries, female hygiene products and make-up for Lou’s Place, a refuge for women in Redfern.
The fun continued at lunchtime when the girls were joined by their teachers in the playground to dance and play games together. B Kinder Day concluded with the K-6 End of Term Assembly in the Great Hall. The focus of this was how we have spread kindness in the community this term. We heard from some Year 5 representatives about their experience at Kids Giving Back and some Year 6 girls shared about their local community service walk, where they made sandwiches and baked goods to deliver to homeless people in the local area. Ms Whitney, Miss Woodcock and Miss Jordan-Watt also shared how they give back to others in their own lives.
The money raised from the day will be given to the B Kinder Foundation who will put the funds towards providing resources for schools in need.
The generosity throughout the day was absolutely incredible! A big thank you to the girls and families for their thoughtful donations. We know these will be greatly appreciated.
Sarah Johnstone
Deputy Head of Primary: Student Wellbeing
