Rosebery School Peer Mentoring Scheme

On Wednesday 6^th March we held the first workshop for six Year 12 students from Rosebery School, Epsom to train as peer mentors for Year 8 students at the school. The event was hosted by Atkins Global, the world-wide engineering consultancy company.

The girls participated in an inter-active training event where they learned about the different skills required to be a mentor plus put into practice the 3-stage ‘Skilled Helper’ model where they help a mentee to identify issues or concerns that they want to work on, brainstorm different solutions and then decide which one suits them best. The final stage is to devise an action plan to achieve their goals.

This is an exciting new venture for the school which will bring many benefits by developing many new skills for the Mentors which will help as they make their university applications and beyond; the Year 8 mentees will receive support from people who speak the same language as them and can relate to many of the issues and concerns they have; plus the school will benefit from having engaged and motivated students plus offer this new scheme to develop leadership opportunities.