World Kindness Day

Over the last two weeks, our lessons were driven by the understanding that children from disadvantaged backgrounds are substantially more vulnerable when they struggle to identify, articulate, and validate their emotions. In these lessons we taught the expression of ‘why?’ in relation to personal feelings and facilitated deeper emotional curiosity in the children through classroom…

In our very first session, our team of Volunteering Teachers warmed up to each other and the children while testing their existing abilities in interpersonal communication. Fun play-time was utilized as a means to introduce the basics of interpersonal communication in the English language.

Designing flipbooks and stepping into our inner architect’s shoes, this week we reflected on our homes. We also shared laughs on midnight snacking stories from the children, and how treehouses were no fit place for a human to live – unless you meant to be eaten by a wild animal!