Live Kindly, Band together: Kindness builds Community

Story and photos by West Ferris Secondary School Reporter Jess Stead/Special to BayToday.ca.

During a trip to Parry Sound with the Trojan Take the Lead team, Julie Price, a Vice-Principal at West Ferris Secondary School, discovered a new method of bringing students, teachers and others in the community together to show kindness.

On March 19th Price issued West Ferris’ first DAK Band.

DAK Bands or Deliberate Acts of Kindness Bands are silicone bracelets that have the DAK website, www.deliberateactsofkindess.com, and a registration number (6 numbers long) on each band.

These bands symbolize acts of kindness seen in and around the school.

When an Act of kindness has been seen, or received the person who has done the kind deed is rewarded by those who have witnessed it.

The person who has been kind receives a West Ferris specialty green and white silicone DAK band.

For example a student who is seen assisting another student with their books and backpack while walking to class may be rewarded by that student or by a bystander who has seen the kind act.

After the band has been given, the student can then go online and register the band they received, explaining their story as to how the DAK band was obtained.

Each recipient is then given two more bracelets to promote kindness throughout the school; those two bracelets are to be given to fellow students to show proof of their acts of kindness thus paying it forward.

In order to reach the school’s goal, of every student and teacher in West Ferris having a DAK band, we must band together to show and provide more acts of kindness throughout our schools and community and thus far the school has gotten off to a great start with many students sporting numerous bands.

“The motto for DAK Bands is to live kindly and band together, and at West Ferris we embody this motto,” says Price.