Fourtowns Primary School, Ahoghill

Helping Hands Week 2026

23rd Jan 2026

From 19th–23rd January, our whole school celebrated Helping Hands Week - a brilliant week focused on kindness, teamwork and positive choices.

Each day, P7 helpers led our Daily Challenge, selecting a kindness task from the Challenge Bucket. Classes coloured a star each time they completed a challenge, aiming for all 5 stars by Friday!

Classes also took part in our Kindness Bucket Challenge on the IWB: Every kind act = 10 points. Magic Stars from mystery visitors = 50 points! (Winning class to be announced soon!)

Our P7 pupils also delivered fantastic lessons exploring:

Invisible buckets & how feelings are affected
Being a bucket filler vs. a bucket dipper
How our words and actions impact others
The ripple effect of kindness across our school 

Key Messages to Reinforce at Home

  • You can talk about anything with someone you trust.
  • Everyone has the right to feel safe.
  • Others have the right to feel safe with us.
  • If someone says/does something unkind, we start with: “Stop it, I don’t like it.”

A huge well done to all our amazing pupils - our school is full of bucket fillers! ??