RAK Ideas For Schools

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Ask your teacher if you can clean up around the school, ask another class to join your efforts.
Eat lunch with someone who is new or sitting alone, or invite him or her to your table.
Talk to a student you’ve never talked to before.
Start a conversation with a new student or with a classmate who seems lonely.
Friendship: Discuss in group time how you know people are friends
Organise your whole class to bring flowers or chocolates to school to surprise your teacher!

Brainstorm ideas with your students, discuss a few ideas that you think would be achievable and would interest your students.
Study kind people in history. Then have students illustrate the kind works of these people and discuss them in class.
Ask students to perform a Random Act of Kindness for a stranger and then write an essay describing the experience — how it made them feel and the reaction of.
Encourage the children to do one nice thing every day, like give a hug, lend a crayon, or play with someone new.
Contact community people who are actively promoting kindness, and request that they visit your school for classroom discussions or an assembly.
Take pictures and preserve some samples of your activities, share your project and photos with others.
Locate various quotes about kindness. Put them up around the room and discuss what they mean.

Start each day with a story, slogan, or quote about kindness.
Encourage your students to take RAK Day beyond the borders of our country - brainstorm fundraising ideas for September 1 (ie. have a mufti-day, or a lunch-time concert) and use the money to collectively RAK a family in Malawi by buying a goat, or a school in Malawi by buying sports equipment, through World Vision’s Gifts of Hope Catalogue .
Encourage your senior students to RAK the world by learning more about global issues and what they can do to make a difference, by joining World Vision’s RAMPANT programme.

Bake a cake or biscuits for another class/take home to parents/office staff. Make cards or notes for people you appreciate around your school i.e; caretaker/teachers/teacher aides/office staff/friends. Make up a song/poem/dance to perform to another class Give some flowers or make some oragami flowers to give to someone.
	Make soup or warm drinks and a stall and give them out before school/morning tea or lunch. Organise a random school clean up with some of your friends. Go to a retirement home and sing to the elderly. Surprise your local dairy/shop with a RAK day treat. Organise a shared lunch with another class or group of friends.

Free car wash before/after school for parents.
RAK another school in your area. Invite them to a RAK party/fun sports afternoon/sausage sizzle/play/performance.
Organise a mufti day and donate the money to a charity.
Collect any unwanted books/toys/clothes and donate them to children and families in need.
Make up food parcels to donate to the City Mission or Salvation Army.
Organise a working bee to tackle any maintanence jobs that need doing around your school or community.
Have a free sausage sizzle outside your school/local supermarket/community hall.