I was weary this morning heading to the office. My working day is packed full of appointments and things to do and I had to head off to a 9.00 am appointment. Before doing so I checked my emails and how pleased I am that I did so. This is the email I received:
Hi Robin,
Thought i would just let you know that i didn't receive this email in time so i headed up to school today as per usual...which turned out to be a great thing!! I ran into [School Coordinator] on my way into the office and he looked shocked to see me, understandably! But he said he had asked the mentees yesterday if they would be interested in being there as usual or skipping school basically??? [My mentee] had said yes, and hadn't received the message that it had been cancelled anyway... So the great part of this is that he was at school today because of the GR8 Mates Program!!! How cool is that :-) he had the option to skip but came to school because as far as he knew the program was going on and he was happy to be a part of it!!! I think that is fantastic and a great testimony to the results this program achieves with these kids... Just Tops!!!
Hope you have a great week .............
Teachers in New South Wales were involved in Industrial Action yesterday which meant we had to cancel the mentoring session. I had informed the mentors the previous day, but this particular mentor had not read the email and it turned out to be a wonderful blessing in disguise. Why this story is so great is because her mentee has been one of the challenging ones, but she has followed one of the golden rules of our program, once echoed by a student:"Don't quit on us!"
Another Wow moment which makes all our work worthwhile!!
Hi Robin,
Thought i would just let you know that i didn't receive this email in time so i headed up to school today as per usual...which turned out to be a great thing!! I ran into [School Coordinator] on my way into the office and he looked shocked to see me, understandably! But he said he had asked the mentees yesterday if they would be interested in being there as usual or skipping school basically??? [My mentee] had said yes, and hadn't received the message that it had been cancelled anyway... So the great part of this is that he was at school today because of the GR8 Mates Program!!! How cool is that :-) he had the option to skip but came to school because as far as he knew the program was going on and he was happy to be a part of it!!! I think that is fantastic and a great testimony to the results this program achieves with these kids... Just Tops!!!
Hope you have a great week .............
Teachers in New South Wales were involved in Industrial Action yesterday which meant we had to cancel the mentoring session. I had informed the mentors the previous day, but this particular mentor had not read the email and it turned out to be a wonderful blessing in disguise. Why this story is so great is because her mentee has been one of the challenging ones, but she has followed one of the golden rules of our program, once echoed by a student:"Don't quit on us!"
Another Wow moment which makes all our work worthwhile!!
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