Top of the class: How one Cork primary school replaced homework with little acts of kindness

The pupils of this gaelscoil are doing neither sums nor spelling at home this month, working instead on random acts of kindness. Jess Casey talked to them and their vice principal about the profound benefits of guiding the children to focus on being kind to everyone — including themselves.

ONE good deed deserves another, and that’s the case at one West Cork gaelscoil that swapped the books for acts of kindness throughout the month of December.