This week at Nursery, we have been exploring our big question, ‘How can I show kindness?’ as part of our Black History Month learning. We learnt that the post box was invented by an important figure named Philip B Downing. We spent time thinking about why this was such an important invention and shared what we know about post boxes. We knew that we use them to post letters, cards and parcels when we want to give something to someone. Some of us had used one to post a letter before.

We created our own kindness cards to post in our own Nursery post box. We thought about who we would like to make a card for and what we wanted our message to say. We got busy mark-making with crayons to design our card. Our adults helped us to scribe our message and some of us had a go at representing our own name.

Once we had finished, we put our kindness cards in the post box. We thought about how Philip B Downing’s invention has helped us to share kindness through cards, letters and parcels with the people who are special to us. We were all very excited for our kindness cards to be delivered to our special person we had chosen.

Damen created his kindness card for his friend Theo, with a kind message inside to thank him for being a good friend and playing with him. Damen couldn’t wait to hand deliver his card to his friend, and Theo was equally excited to receive this act of kindness!

For our group times, we learnt to sign and sing to the song, ‘Lean on Me’ by Bill Withers. We talked about what it meant to ‘lean on’ our friends and linked this to being kind to one another. We worked really hard to practise the lyrics and the signs to a part of the song. We also learnt that Bill Withers is a very important figure in music as part of our learning within Black History Month.