ARRIVE — Classroom Edition
Students may arrive carrying more than just their bags.
Students arrive at a lesson from different places around the school — perhaps carrying more than just their bags.
They may have rushed from another lesson, had a difficult conversation, been laughing with friends or simply have their attention somewhere else.
ARRIVE creates a short space between where students have just been and the learning that is about to begin.
Guided by a simple script or recording, students are given a few moments to settle, come together, focus and begin.
Single Teacher Licence
ARRIVE gives you a simple way to:
- Create a little space between arrival and learning
- Help students settle and come together as a class
- Bring attention towards the learning ahead
- Begin without adding another task or programme to complete
You can't control how someone else will react to you. But you can influence what happens next through who you choose to BE in response.
Five questions. One practical framework.
R⁵ Mental Rehearsal gives leaders a simple structure for examining the thinking they may already be rehearsing and choosing more deliberately what they want to take into the interaction ahead.
Mental rehearsal isn't about predicting or controlling what someone else will do. It's about preparing yourself to think, listen and respond with greater intention. That distinction is important because it stops the concept sounding like positive visualisation or “imagine everything going perfectly"
WHEN WOULD I USE IT?
For the moments that matter
R⁵ Mental Rehearsal can be used before:
An important or potentially difficult meeting
when you recognise that previous experience may already be shaping your expectations.
A challenging conversation
when emotions, assumptions or other people's opinions could influence how you respond.
Responding to a difficult email
when your first reaction may not be the response you ultimately want to give.
A difficult phone call
when you want to be clear about how you intend to listen and respond.
Disagreement or challenge
when staying connected to the result you're trying to achieve matters more than simply winning the exchange.
Any professional interaction where your thinking beforehand could affect what happens next.
Everything you need to put R⁵ into practice
Your Single School Leadership Team Licence includes:
🟩Professional Reflection Guide
Explore what you may already carry into important interactions and work through each of the Five Rs.
🟩Guided Mental Rehearsal — approximately 9 minutes
A guided practice for when you have time to prepare more deliberately.
🟩Quick Mental Rehearsal — approximately 4 minutes
For use closer to the moment — before a meeting, conversation or call, or before responding to something difficult.
🟩R⁵ Leadership Card
A physical reminder of the Five Rs to keep close at hand.
🟩Print-ready R⁵ Leadership Cards
Four per A4 sheet, ready to reproduce for members of your leadership team.
🟩20–30 minute leadership-team CPD guidance
A ready-to-use structure for introducing R⁵ to your leadership team.
INDIVIDUAL USE → TEAM CPD
Use it yourself. Or bring it to your leadership team.
R⁵ Mental Rehearsal is designed to work at different levels.
A leader might begin with the Professional Reflection Guide and longer Guided Mental Rehearsal to understand the Five Rs.
Closer to an important interaction, the Quick Mental Rehearsal provides a shorter opportunity to prepare.
And as R⁵ becomes familiar, the Leadership Card alone may be enough to prompt the questions that matter.
For schools wanting to introduce the framework more widely, the Resource Guide includes a suggested 20-minute introduction and 30-minute guided CPD session, together with discussion questions and print-ready cards for the leadership team.
R⁵ Mental Rehearsal
Single School Leadership Team Licence
£99 — one-time payment
For use by the leadership team within one school or educational setting.
Your licence allows your school to use the resources for individual leadership development and internal CPD, reproduce R⁵ Leadership Cards for members of your leadership team, and securely store the digital resources for authorised leadership-team access.
Need to use R⁵ Mental Rehearsal across multiple schools, a trust or another organisation? Please contact [email protected] for licensing options.
The aim isn't to add another task to a busy leadership to-do list.
It's to give you a framework you can return to when it matters.
What am I carrying? • What can I call on? • What else could be true? • What future am I rehearsing? • What am I trying to achieve?