‘Seeds for Peace’ is an innovative educational program designed to teach compassion, hope, and a love of gardening to elementary school children around the world, and Kircaldy Heights School decided to take part last week.
“This seeds for peace program really promotes feelings of peace and kindness amongst the students, and it really helps open their eyes to how lucky they are,” said grade 3-4 teacherKaren Tilley.
The students at Kircaldy spent time on May 7 decorating seed pouches to be sent away to a foreign embassy, in this case Iraq, and the embassy will distribute these seed packages to school-aged children in their country, with hopes of spreading a message of kindness and hope.
“We decided on Iraq because of the current turmoil in the country, the students have a general idea already, and this has helped open their eyes wider to what is going on.”
“I think this program is a great idea, it really gets the kids actively involved and helps them learn about what’s going on in the world,” said Mayor Dave Burgess, who made an appearance to show his support for the program, “I hope some of the other schools adopt this program and give it a shot, it really helps broaden the student’s perspective.”
‘Seeds for Peace’ was designed by Jeff Arsenault from Winchester Public School near Ottawa, and according to Tilley, is doing exactly what he intended for it to do.
“The kids are starting to think about what peace means to them, and how they can maintain it for the future.”
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