Birch Lane Students Show Unity and Heart for Kindness Day

Kindness is a year-round expectation for students at Birch Lane Elementary School and one day a year it gets some extra emphasis. The school celebrated World Kindness Day on Nov. 13 with an assembly and recess activities.

Singer and songwriter Jared Campbell visited Birch Lane for a pair of programs that emphasized kindness, compassion and responsibility through sing-alongs. During recess, students from grades K-4 took a kindness pledge by signing one of the letters in “Unity,” while fifth graders added their names to a large heart. These will hang in the cafeteria along with the words from the past two years, “Kind” and “Include.”

The PTA hosted games that fostered collaboration and cooperation. Students also wrote kind messages and drew cheerful pictures on the blacktop with sidewalk chalk. There was also a Be the “I” in Kind photo station.

“While we celebrate World Kindness Day on Nov. 13, kindness is something that is celebrated every day at Birch Lane,” Principal Stephen Aspetti said. “Educating children about the importance of kindness and empathy is one of our greatest responsibilities. When we see our students going out of their way to help a classmate, it fills us with pride and reminds us that the efforts we are making are having positive results.”