Students Spread Positivity for P.S. I Love You Day
Students Spread Positivity for P.S. I Love You Day
Seaford students made a firm commitment to the value of mental health, as they marked P.S. I Love You Day. The mission of the nationwide initiative is to eradicate the stigma around mental health and foster an environment where everyone feels welcomed, loved and supported.
At Seaford Middle School, the last 20 minutes on Feb. 12 were dedicated to a P.S. I Love You Day activity. During the ASK advisory session, students learned about the significance of the day and wrote kind and inclusive messages on purple hearts. The hearts would then be hung throughout the building for P.S. I Love You Day on Feb. 14.
Additionally, students spread kindness in their community by writing positive messages on coffee cup sleeves that were then given to customers at a local Starbucks on P.S. I Love You Day.
The activities were spearheaded by the school’s pupil personnel services team. Their goal was to emphasize the importance of always choosing kindness, striving to do what’s right and embracing each other’s differences. Ultimately, they want students to understand the impact their words and actions have on others, and make decisions to ensure their impact is positive.
Seaford Harbor Elementary School had a week of events for P.S. I Love You Day, that culminated on Feb. 14. Each grade did different activities that focused on acceptance and kindness. Students were reminded that they shouldn't just be kind to others, but also to themselves.
In first grade, students did crafts that responded to the prompt, “What makes you shine?” Fifth graders used yarn to create kindness webs, as students formed a circle and passed it back and forth while saying positive affirmations. One by one, students had to drop the yarn to demonstrate how the web falls apart when one person doesn’t show kindness.
Every class made a purple kindness chain with interlocking links on which students wrote ways to show love to themselves and others. The student council hung purple sticky notes with positive messages around the school.
