Kindness Assembly Ideas for KS1 and KS2
Conducting an assembly on kindness can go a long way in teaching children fantastic core values. However, don’t stress if you’re unsure how to put this type of performance together. Our team at The School Musicals Company is here to help guide you through it.
Not only do we want to make your assembly on kindness as entertaining as possible, but we also want it to be stuffed with lessons to be learned. We can also suggest some engaging assembly songs to complement your performance and make it as memorable as possible. Let’s jump right in!
Running a Kindness Assembly for KS1 and KS2 Students
Kindness assembly ideas can be tricky to think up on the spot, so check out our guidance below and start preparing!
1. Consider learning objectives of assemblies on kindness
Before fully preparing your kindness assembly for KS1 or KS2 students, consider what you are trying to achieve. Here are a few common objectives of kindness assemblies:
- Developing children’s skills, such as conflict resolution and compassion
- Encourage students to practice kindness on a daily basis
- Highlight the importance of kindness for both individuals and whole communities and recognise its benefits
- Providing children with a chance to reflect on how they can be kind to others and themselves
Once you’ve selected your aims, you can start to plan your kindness assembly’s story around them.
2. Include interactive activities
When running a kindness assembly for KS1 or KS2 students, you’ll want to include several interactive activities to get the children thinking about kindness on a deeper level.
Ask questions: Start by asking the children what the word kindness means to them. This will spark a sense of reflection as each child shares their thoughts.
Kindness role play: For children who like drama, you could encourage them to act out a series of short stories about conflict resolution and kindness in action. This is a much-loved drama workshop idea for anyone with a class who loves performing. To boost the children’s learning further, you could even ask them to write out these stories themselves to boost their reading and writing skills.
Random acts of kindness bingo: In this game, your class can create bingo cards with kind actions, encouraging the whole school to complete them. This could include actions such as sharing sweets, talking to a classmate sitting on their own, and holding the door open for someone.
3. Display videos or pictures
Visual media is a fantastic way to inspire children to act and spread kindness. Project a video showing a story about acts of kindness to encourage children to apply what they have learned to the real world.
These videos, images, and slides should cover the key topics you have in mind for your assembly on kindness, such as empathy, inclusion, and conflict resolution.
4. Make a show of it
If you want to escalate your KS1 or KS2 kindness assembly to the next level, why not incorporate some songs to ramp up that much-needed engagement?
For example, our You, Me & PSHE assembly collection can help your children put on the performance they deserve, and the PSHE songs cover plenty of different topics.
To take things a step further, you could even create a primary school musical highlighting the theme of kindness.
5. Close with action
When rounding up your kindness assembly for KS1 and KS2 students, you’ll want to end on a key message that inspires action. It’s worth summarising the main messages you wanted to voice throughout the assembly to ensure they are fresh in your audience’s minds before encouraging attendees to commit to an act of kindness for the day, week, or month ahead.
Don’t forget to thank the audience for coming and give a well-deserved bow!
School Musicals with the Theme of Kindness
If you think a kindness school musical will help you emphasise your key messages, we have a broad collection you can pick from.
Written by Matthew Crossey and Tom Kirkham, Paws and Claws is a purr-fect KS2 musical for classes wanting to focus on the theme of kindness. The story revolves around an unlikely friendship between a dog and a cat and their journey of discovering that cooperation and empathy are far more powerful than rivalry. You can also purchase the secondary school Paws and Claws version.
This KS1 musical explores themes of kindness, friendship, and perseverance. The character Crabby’s journey from feeling discouraged to realising his dream strongly reflects the cruciality of supporting and helping others. Some characters showcase kindness by offering guidance and friendship, while the community welcomes Crabby back with open arms at the end of the play.
A-la-la-la-la-laddin is a story centring on kindness, honesty, and the importance of staying true to yourself. For example, Zahra’s kindness is evident when she is willing to give up her royal life and wealth to live with love and authenticity. Showing commitment to doing the right thing even when faced with adversity is key in this musical and can certainly teach your class a thing or two!
Project Planet is a musical which concentrates on the importance of rewilding and teamwork. The children in the play attempt to bring back wildflowers and creatures by rewilding, but their efforts face resistance from scarecrows. The children are able to restore the meadow through working together, demonstrating that kindness and collaboration can help preserve nature and solve problems.
Inspired by Our Kindness Assembly Ideas?
Hopefully, you have become inspired by our kindness assembly ideas and are ready to put your plans into action. It’s time to engage, educate, and entertain your schoolchildren and let them take to the stage in style. Whether you want to put on a KS2 kindness assembly for a leavers’ show or create a performance a little different from the classic nativity, we also have many everyday assembly songs to support your learning objectives.
Browse our range of KS1 and KS2 assembly songs, download our discounted back-to-school pack, or try out one of our most popular musicals for schools to end the school term on a real high.
If you have any queries about our kindness assembly songs or musicals, please don’t hesitate to contact us today!