School Programmes

Kind Minds for Schools

Kind Minds for Schools is a whole-school programme designed to bring mindfulness and social-emotional learning (SEL) into the everyday culture of classrooms. Created for children aged 2-11, our preventative curriculum educates children, staff and parents/carers using 4 simple steps - Concentrate, Calm, Connect and Create.

Our Curriculum Structure

The Kind Minds Curriculum includes 4 key pillars of learning content. The content within these 4 pillars of learning increases in complexity as the children progress through their primary years.

Concentrate

Children develop the ability to train and direct their attention using creative and sensory mindfulness activities.

Calm

Children learn mindful breathing techniques while exploring the interconnection between their brains, minds and emotions.

Connect

Children learn how to be a kind friend to themselves and others using mindfulness and interactive social-emotional learning lessons.

Create

Children express themselves through creative activities while generalising the mindfulness tools they have learnt into their everyday lives.

How is the curriculum delivered?

Each staff member receives a personalised login to our comprehensive online portal, providing you with unlimited access to our curriculum for a full year.

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For Children:

A universal curriculum of downloadable lessons plans/slides, resources and videos for early years (ages 2-5) and primary (ages 5-11).

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For Staff:

Professional development videos and audio recordings to support educators to develop their own mindfulness practice, alongside ensuring all staff feel confident to deliver our curriculum.

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For Parents/Carers:

Termly resource packs and workshop slides to enable a consistent partnership between home and school.

Is Kind Minds right for my school?

We’ve spent years researching and designing a high-quality whole-school programme that fills the gap in children's mental health provision, and one that puts wellbeing at the heart of the classroom culture.

To ensure that we see the best outcomes for children's mental health, we work with schools that are ready to timetable 20 minutes per week to deliver our curriculum (in both early years and primary). Our feedback from the Kind Minds Beta Test complements the wealth of existing research which demonstrates that mindfulness programmes are best implemented when incorporated within the ethos of the whole school (Hawkins 2017).

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Pastoral Lead, The Olive Primary School

Kind Minds is the best wellbeing curriculum I have come across. I have a simple structure to follow and we finally have emotional literacy resources, lessons and guidance that goes above and beyond the provisions within the national curriculum. Highly recommend to all school senior management teams.

Holly McIntosh
Nursery SENCo,
Padnell Pre-School

All of the curriculum activities are easy to understand and implement and can be used effectively at any time of day. Thank you Laura for turning our curriculum into something beautiful.

Lizzie Stroud
Primary Teacher and Kids Yoga Teacher

It's amazing to see how the children have learnt to listen to their bodies to help them name their emotions. One of the boys said "Emotions are like bits of energy dancing around your body". This child has even shown his parents how to do mindful breathing as a tool to support him to unwind before bed.