SOCIAL media stars the Four Little Farm Boys have inspired their primary school to embark on a Summer of Kindness campaign with their own efforts.

Thomas, 8, Sebastian, 7, Jacob, 6, and Henry, 2, have been undertaking random acts of kindness for almost a year through lockdowns and home schooling.

To stay connected with friends, spread positivity and kindness, their mum, Amy, set up the Four Little Farm Boys Facebook page, regularly sharing their adventures.

However, the family’s efforts have now led the boys’ school, Hunter Hall in Penrith, to create a lower school-wide ‘Summer of Kindness’.

Head of Early Years Foundation Stage, Georgina Griffiths commented: “We have been so inspired by the Four Little Farm Boys’ acts of kindness over the past 12 months, that we have decided to take part in our own Summer of Kindness. Over coming weeks, the children will be undertaking acts of kindness in school and the community.”

The campaign kicked off this week with a sunflower planting session at the Four Little Farm Boys’ family farm near Carlisle.

Children helped to plant 20kg of sunflower seeds in a 300m long strip ready to harvest and ‘pass on’ as final acts of kindness in September to mark the end of all their hard work and endeavours.

Other activities planned so far are varied from singing to the residents of nursing homes and planting flowers to share with church parishioners to reading stories via online platforms to hospital patients; from helping Mr Ellerton, the school caretaker, with the weeding and sending kindness cards to organising litter picks and baking tasty treats to share – the list goes on!

The random acts don’t stop at the school gate. Each of the younger children are being encouraged to complete a Kindness Passport – recording kind deeds at home and in their own local community.