Mentoring

Learning Mentor Staff:

Mrs C McEvoy Lead Mentor
Mrs S Herrington Learning Mentor
Mr N Dixon Learning Mentor

Dedicated to helping students achieve

What is mentoring?

Mentoring is a process of ongoing support and development dealing with topics that have been identified as barriers to learning.

Our mentors help with the personal, social and academic development of an individual student.  Mentors work with students during regular, one-to-one sessions, or in small groups and work in a flexible manner adapting sessions to the needs of the individual students.  They allocate dedicated time to each student where strategies are discussed and established, enabling students to improve skills and raise achievement.

 

Areas of Impact

Learning mentors help individual students develop by helping them to:

  1. Focus and provide structure to enhance and expand knowledge
  2. Improve communication with teachers and peers
  3. Instil a positive feeling of self worth
  4. Establish a sense of direction and a clearer vision of goals
  5. Improve attitudes and behaviour
  6. Become motivated and self disciplined
  7. Release untapped potential and raise expectations
  8. Improve attendance, punctuality and reduce exclusions
  9. Cope with the transition from Primary School
  10. Organise their work and use their time effectively
  11. Take ownership of problems and solutions.

Peer Mentors

Peer Mentors are students in Year 10, Year 11 and Sixth From who are trained help to provide support for younger students.

Year 7

Our school works to support Year 7 students with their transition into Secondary School.  Transition from primary into a large Secondary School can be an anxious time for many students and out aim is to help reduce any anxieties they might be experiencing during this time and help them view the change as a developmental stage in their life. 

During Year 7 Form/Tutor Classes two of our Peer Mentors are in each Form Class one morning per week and provide support, guidance and can be positive role models.  Peer Mentors are there to listen and befriend the students in their class helping to create a caring atmosphere and one in which Year 7 students feel comfortable to ask for help if needed.

The Learning Mentors run a lunch time Club/Game Zone in Room 52 for Year 7 students where they can come and play board games and make friends.