Lower School students recently celebrated Kindness Week with activities that encouraged them to practice and share kindness in meaningful ways.
Kindness Week kicked off with a school-wide assembly featuring “K-I-N-D,” an original song written by Lower School Associate Dean of Students Garret Crosby, and celebrating Kindness, one of the School’s Big 4 values. Students learned about the Kindness Chain, a growing display of kind acts across campus. As each class added links—illustrating or writing about kind deeds involving classmates, teachers, families, and mentors—students saw how their individual actions connected to form one unified chain. They were also introduced to Kindness Bingo, a game that encourages them to practice kindness at school and at home by completing simple, meaningful acts throughout the week.
Students also made a difference through a service-learning project with Project Pay It Forward, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit serving unhoused families transitioning into housing. From November 12 to 19, each grade collected food items tailored to meet family needs, including but not limited to dry pasta, rice, canned goods, and holiday staples. The project fostered real-world impact as students assembled food packages and wrote holiday cards, directly supporting families during the holidays. Sofia Villalpando, the nonprofit's Founder, visited assemblies to accept the donations and recognize the meaningful effect of the students’ community effort.
Kindness Week and the Project Pay It Forward initiative provided Lower School students with firsthand experience of how their thoughtful actions can create genuine change, both within their community and beyond. By embodying the Big 4 value of Kindness, students witnessed the far-reaching effects of empathy and generosity, impacting not only their peers but also families in need, and reinforcing that their choices can make a lasting difference.
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