R.I.S.E. Newsletter - February

Hello dear readers, and happy February (affectionately known as the month of love!). With awareness days and events like Valentine’s Day, Random Acts of Kindness Day, Love Your Pet Day and Emotional Health Day, there are a lot of opportunities to focus on love, kindness and appreciation.

With that in mind, we wanted to share a little message of appreciation with you. Thank you so much for reading, sharing and engaging with our monthly newsletters. We really appreciate you finding the time for our R.I.S.E. updates. ??

Sweet articles

Here are some recent articles that focus on kindness, appreciation and support.

3 strategies for being a good mentor by Matt Roberts

“Mentoring, when done right, can be the difference between a novice teacher finding their feet or being swept away as another statistic in the growing numbers of teachers leaving the profession.”

In this article, Matt shares the importance of the mentoring role and best practices for supporting your mentee.

Embed good mentoring practices

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Celebrating kindness and appreciation in school by Liz Bury

?“Learning about appreciation and kindness is never wasted time.”

In this article, Liz shares what school cultures can take from national days dedicated to thinking of others – Valentine’s Day and Random Acts of Kindness Day. She talks about how Valentine’s Day is celebrated in different cultures and the far-reaching effects of random acts of kindness.

?Boost your school's kindness culture

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?A helping hand for mental health

The 3rd-9th February was Children’s Mental Health week, and as one of our key R.I.S.E. Magazine categories is ‘wellbeing’, we took some of the advice from our contributors on how to support children’s wellbeing to empower educators with some key strategies. Featuring content from: Miss Kiran S. Cat Allott Nicola Harvey Pete Read and Dr Leila Khouja Walker

Learn 5 ways to support children's mental health

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Sharing the love

Did you know that today (20th Feb 2025) is Love Your Pet Day? We at R.I.S.E. community have a real soft spot for animals and so we just had to get involved. In this article, we share our pet pics and why we love our animal companions. Thank you to Hari Neocleous , Renee Dawson, Ed.S. , Andrew Cowley , Sue Atkins , ????? Lynn How FCCT , et al. for sharing their pets with us.

Share in the joy of pets

That’s a wrap from us for February but we look forward to sharing some more updates soon!

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Best wishes,

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