The Riviera Ridge School Celebrates Kindness Week 

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Santa Barbara, CA. (February 2025) – With Kindness leading the way as one of their school’s core values, The Riviera Ridge School celebrated The Great Kindness Challenge with a week of heartfelt and hands-on activities. From Monday, January 27th, to Friday, January 31st, Lower and Middle School students spread positivity with a new mission each day to help foster compassion. The Riviera Ridge School, which is certified and registered as a Great Kindness Challenge School, invited students to dress in the corresponding color that went with each day and rewarded students with stickers of the same hue upon completion. 

This spirit of caring was not just confined to their campus. The Middle School STEAM² Elective Service Brigade also orchestrated a gift card drive to support families affected by the Eaton Fire in Altadena. After researching the challenges faced by families in communities hardest hit by the fires, the students identified gift cards as a crucial way to assist. Students collected donations from families, and the whole Middle School wrote cards offering genuine words of encouragement to accompany the collected gift cards for families in need. The school community was able to donate more than $1,600 dollars in gift card donations.