Mentoring

The Mentoring programme is one way of raising young people’s aspirations.  It is designed for students who are nearing their GCSE exams, but could be adapted for other age groups.

The adult mentor supports the young person by working with them on a variety of topics aimed at helping them understand and achieve their potential.

Downloads

GE Mentoring Recruitment (.ppt)
This is a Powerpoint presentation that you should adapt for your site.  You will need to ask your partner school to input some information and add in your own contact details.  Better still, get a member of the school staff to talk about their sections or use their own material.
If you have any experienced mentors in your business, this is a great chance to get them to speak about the programme.

GE Mentoring Training (.ppt)
This training is best run by someone who has a some experience of mentoring.  You may want a representative from the school to run it, or train a member of staff.
There are three slides where you will need input from your school/college partner.
A full set of notes accompanies the slides. 

GE Mentoring Train the Trainers (.pdf)
If you are planning to train voluntees internally this document will help train your trainer or trainers.  It takes each of the slides from the training material and outlines how to present it.

Mentee Endorsement (.wmv) – Sam was a pupil at Patchway Community College in Bristol, his mentee was the IT leader from Capital Solutions.  In his own words, he talks about how valuable mentoring was to him.  The sound is not great on this clip so ,if you do show it, you will need to make sure that you have speakers.  His final comment is that mentoring “Is the best thing!”