The theme for World Values Day on Thursday, 15th October this year is Values and Volunteering, which for us means any act of thoughtfulness or kindness to others done without expecting any reward or recognition.
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 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.
Highlights from this year’s Schools Pack include four inspiring examples showing the different creative and powerful ways that schools celebrated their values for last year’s World Values Day:
- a school in Thailand engaged students of all ages, their parents and their local community in arts and crafts, presentations, interviews and debates;
- schools in Nigeria conducted street interviews and community engagement, discussed values videos, went on values walks, and blew values balloons!
- schools across India held a World Values Week expressing gratitude to “unsung heroes” of their schools’ support staff;
- A school in Australia that invited grandparents to engage with pupils in their classrooms to celebrate the values that unite them as a community.
There are lots of other ideas in the Pack for all kinds of activities to suit all age groups.
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.
SuperKids is designed to spread awareness, empathy, kindness and understanding among all age-groups, with lesson plans for all ages in English and French.
The Global Poetry Showcase gives anyone who feels he has a poem of any kind inside them to showcase it to other poets around the world.
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 Schools 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 2026 Values Guide for Schools.
#WorldValuesDay