Valentine's Day
Celebrates love and affection in various forms.
Activities:
Card-making: Create inclusive Valentine's cards.
Compliment walls: Post positive messages for peers.
Kindness challenges: Encourage acts of kindness.
Gift Making: Allow students to create gifts for people to celebrate all types of relationships.
Send A Gift: Purchase sweets such as love hearts, or heart shaped lolly pops and send them to other students.
Photobooth: Students can create a background, create and buy props and during lunch students can attend to take photos with their friends to celebrate their relationships and connections. Make this event even more fun by printing photos like Polaroids or Photobooth so they can take them home as keepsakes. (Valentines Day 2025 / Valentines Day 2024)
Discussions: “Who makes you feel supported?”, “What do you value in a friend?”, “How do people show care/love/respect?”
Show Appreciation: Students could reflect on a relationship they appreciate and write a short paragraph or picture or make a gift for someone.
Crafts: Make friendship bracelets with beads or loom bands, bath salts or make card or pictures for people.
School-wide Awareness:
Decorate common areas with inclusive symbols.
Organise events celebrating all types of relationships.
Give out heart shaped sweets to students during the day or as positive behaviour points.
Projects: