Prep School students recently took part in a Kindness and Human Rights Drop Down Day. Students got the chance to explore the topic through a broad range of exciting and interesting activities, planned by our expert Epsom educators. For the whole day, our students were off timetable to explore each topic with an aim to expand their knowledge about what it means to be kind and what rights we should all have, as humans.
We started the day by creating carefully curated kindness rings. On each ring, our students wrote a message of kindness to others, before we linked them together to represent our togetherness and community. These beautiful rings are now on display at the 2nd floor Prep entrance, to welcome visitors, staff and children into school, with a colourful reminder of the importance of kindness.
After creating this glorious display, children were organised into mixed year groups to enquire and investigate kindness and human rights further. Our wide range of bi-lingual learning opportunities involved drama presentations, poetry creation, Mandarin singing, science experiments, good deed identifying and many other unique and bespoke tasks in the pursuit of knowledge understanding.
It was wonderful to see the engagement and interest shown by our students in exploring a vitally important topic which helped them gain a deeper understanding of society and their place in it. Many were surprised that, even as children, they have rights, responsibilities and privileges. It was a wholesome experience for all our learning leaders in joining them on this valuable learning journey, and after conversations with the children, we know they also saw the merit in learning about these fundamental values we should all embrace.
Looking forward, we will continue to put the knowledge we have gained into practice and show kindness to all. In addition to this, we will be mindful about the struggles of others and learn to appreciate what we have in terms of support, friends and family. What a wonderfully enriching day! We will look forward to our next intriguing and thought-provoking Drop Down Day in Prep.
Mr Mark Eyton-Jones
Assistant Headteacher Prep, Wellbeing and Behaviour