Kindness Week 2024

 

Dear Families,

 

Valentine’s Day is about two weeks away! But at Westgate, this day looks different! PLEASE DO NOT BRING ANY CARDS OR TREATS ON VALENTINE’S DAY! The longstanding tradition at Westgate is for our students to go into the community on Valentine’s Day and distribute cards to our neighbors on something we call Kindness Day, which is part of Kindness Week described below.  Students will make the cards at school with their Advocacy to a partner organization.  We’re lining up delivery locations now. As we get closer to the date, we’ll send details and a permission slip.  Our high school students are chaperoning with the younger grades, so we do not need parent volunteers.  Once again, NO CARDS / CANDY / TREATS / FLOWERS ARE ALLOWED TO BE DISTRIBUTED.

 

At Westgate, we believe in promoting kindness every single day and we are grateful for your support in modeling kindness and compassion all the time! During the week of Valentine's Day, we invite you to take kindness further by collecting, celebrating and prioritizing acts of kindness to show our love, admiration and appreciation for one another and our community. Let the Kindness Challenge commence!

 

For the fourth year, we are challenging our community to perform at least 200 acts of kindness as a school. We invite you to document and share your acts of kindness with us! Each day has a kindness type/ style and a challenge that goes with it. You can follow the suggestions for each day and document the kind act. Please share by using the hashtag #ShareYourKindness to tag your act of kindness on social media (social media tips are below), or you can send a picture or video directly to [email protected]. On Wednesday, our entire school community will hand deliver cards and letters of appreciation to local first responders, essential workers, and seniors at local organizations in our area.

2/12 Monday - Words of Affirmation, Encouragement and Love

• Write a letter, send a text, or make a phone call to someone you appreciate 
• Example: Send messages (letter, texts, etc.) to five people with whom you’d like to send words of affirmation

• Enjoy intentional quality time with someone you love and appreciate  
• Example: Play a board game, make dinner together and eat around a table, read a book, take a walk, etc.!

• Do something kind (like a conscious act of kindness) for someone today 
• Example: Share a compliment, smile at somebody, help clean up, etc.!
• This is the day we will share kindness letters, notes and pictures with our community! Each class will be assigned a partner organization.

 

2/15 Thursday – A Day of Giving 

• Share a gift with someone (you don’t need money to give a gift!)
• Example: Cook a meal, bake a treat, make a craft or just give something from your heart to someone else!

While you are home on your day off…

• Encourage yourSELF with words of affirmation
• Do something kind for yourSELF
• Give yourSELF a gift.

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