Primary school children in Glasgow and Northern Ireland will this term join an innovative international programme designed to improve classroom behaviour and reduce violence and bullying.
The Roots of Empathy programme works by teaching children, aged four to 12, to empathise with others through a series of regular classroom visits during the school year by a parent and young baby. A younger version, called Seeds of Empathy, aimed at children under the age of four, is being launched.
Roots of Empathy was founded in Canada in 1996 by Mary Gordon, an educator and parenting expert. Since then it has spread across North America, Australia and New Zealand, and it first came to the UK three years ago when it was introduced in the Isle of Man. From this term it will run in all but two of the island's primary schools.
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