The theme for World Values Day on Thursday, 16th October this year is Values for the Future, and we’d love to see more and more schools celebrating their values on or around that day!
Children and young people deserve to feel safe. They deserve to know that their presence is celebrated and that their ideas will help us shape the future. World Values Day brings them together with each other, with their communities and with the wider world in a safe environment.
As always, the World Values Day Schools Pack 2025 helps you to do that, by providing a fun (and free) range of activities and resources for children and young people of all ages. There are suggested activities for all ages and to suit all contexts.
The Showcase of Learning and Coffee and Discussion activities are both great ways of reaching out to the local community. Community Values Sanctuaries provides a resource which can be enjoyed by the school and local community, and will prompt creativity and love of nature for years to come.
Reading Across the Generations is about sharing stories with members of the community including parents, grandparents and other elders. The Vintage Playground Olympics reaches out across the generations too, with its revival of old playground games which children can continue to enjoy throughout the year.
Here is something else that can engage parents too! Our long-term supporters at Living Values Education, the global educator created from a UNICEF initiative in 1996, are offering a unique opportunity to parents and teachers around the world to take part in an online series of free interactive Values-Based Parenting & Caring sessions. Participants will learn some simple but powerful tools and strategies to raise happy and balanced children, and how to stay patient, loving and mentally healthy themselves, even at the most stressful times.
You are invited to join three 90-minute workshops: one in July, one in August and one in September, each revolving around a powerful core value, followed by a fourth and final “graduation” workshop in October which will bring together all the learning and insights from the previous months.
The BIG 5 Value for the Future is this year’s contribution from The Human Values Foundation, and comprises two free lesson kits around the value of Aspiration ages 5-7 and Ages 7-11. Explore this powerful value, asking the BIG question: Which Global Goal would you like to work towards? Pupils then reflect on their aspirations for themselves, each other and the planet through a mini meditation, a poem and journaling.
We are grateful too to game-maker Dipak Fakey OBE and his Good Values Club. His Let’s Talk Memory Game is a board and card game for any age which stimulates meaningful conversations across the generations, and is particularly helpful for connecting children and adults to elders with memory loss. Since its debut in this Pack last year it has been used in a variety of school and community settings with huge success.
Other activities in the Pack include the Values Bring Us Together Project that Dipak also developed for us. It provides a number of engaging challenges to overcome before pupils finally become true “Values Champions”.
SuperKids is designed to spread awareness and understanding among all age-groups about the brain and brain tumours.
The Global Poetry Showcase gives anyone who feels he has a poem of any kind inside them to showcase it to others.
Finally, our old favourite the ValuesJam is a brilliant way of sparking interesting and unexpected conversations with others. You can use this set of playful values cards either one-on-one or in groups, inside the school or at home with your family.
Use the link below to download the Pack and get more information and links. All the activities and ideas have been created with busy schools in mind. They are ready to go and have been successfully used in a wide range of schools. With each activity there is a suggested age group for whom we deem the activity most suitable. However, you know the young people you work with best, and we welcome a dialogue with you on how you plan to adapt these to meet your needs.
PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE FULL WORLD VALUES DAY SCHOOLS PACK HERE
If you would like to explore further ideas for what to do on World Values Day you may also like to have a look through our Values Guide for Schools here: WVD 2025 Values Guide for Schools .docx
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