Each year, our Peer Mentors are encouraged to come up with their own initiatives. This year, Olivia and Sasha created Kindness Rocks; an all-day event for Year 5 pupils to explore and celebrate acts of kindness through art, drama, poetry, rap, and dance.
Olivia and Sasha organised the event and ran it with the assistance of other Year 12 Peer Mentors.
Miss Rhiannon Johnson, Raven Housemistress, who helped to oversee the event, said: “Both the Year 5 pupils and their teachers enjoyed the day, with kindness and creativity in abundance. We can’t wait to start planning next year’s Kindness Rocks!”
Olivia said: “As this multi-primary school event was our Peer Mentoring Project, Sasha and I worked every week from the beginning of this academic year to ensure that everything had been planned as best it could. We came up with this event as a way to promote kindness and inspire the next generation to take this forward with them for the rest of their lives.
“It was focused on kindness, teamwork, and community, aspiring to educate the children about anti-bullying in a fun and inventive way. We began by registering interests of different local primary schools, and when we realised how eager they were to join us for this spectacular event, we sent out the formal invitations, along with the letters for the parents of the children. We liaised with lots of different departments with whom we’d never spoken, but this only strengthened our ability to communicate with new people! We could not have made the day possible without the help from our Peer Mentor teachers and the Peer Mentors who volunteered to help us throughout the whole day!”
‘This is the best school trip I’ve been on, it’s so fun!’
Oliver from Warren Mead
