Senator Gibson Public School

School name:
Senator Gibson Public School

City, Province:
Niagra, Ontario

Projects:
Together with the school youth counsellor, students brainstormed project ideas and decided to focus on kindness – specifically, how kindness affects well-being and one’s sense of belonging.

The students displayed great leadership skills in delivering a lesson on kindness to every class in the school. They also came up with the idea of creating a kindness wall made up of bricks designed by students to display what kindness means to them. All 502 students participated! The Grade 8s then created a mural in the school out of all the kindness bricks in an impressive display of unity and community values. Students and staff consistently stop at the kindness wall to observe, read and converse about the messages. It has connected students from Kindergarten to Grade 8 and shows that each individual is valued and that their voice is represented.