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PEER MENTORING
Each school will receive 1 day of training in school facilitated by highly experienced education leads and a youth and community practitioner. Training will cover role of a peer mentor, teamwork, listening skills, confidentiality, safeguarding, language, conflict, managing your own wellbeing and action planning for their campaign in school. 1 SLT member, 1 TA and 1 other staff member will have twilight training to support the peer mentors in delivering their project/campaign. Campaigns will be themed around: supporting transition and anti-bullying and others that fit with their own schools. After training, young people and staff meet (independently) to formulate an action plan that is specific to the school and the needs, they will add any campaigns around well-being in line with national drivers eg: world mental health day. In terms of quality assurance, we will work with you during the onboarding process to support schools identify/recruit students. We will support the school to ensure the action palm is embedded into the whole school and regularly reviewed by school lead and young people.
Contact sajda.b@bep.education for more information.
The children really enjoyed the peer mentor training. The sessions were really engaging and gave the children the opportunity to really think about how they can help and support others. The children developed confidence in sharing ideas and became really motivated about having a whole school impact on belonging, kindness and happiness. The sessions were really well managed, and we would love to be a part of this again and give other children in our school the opportunity to train as a peer mentor.
At Hodge Hill Girls School, through the SAYPMHP, student voice has become a crucial focus for the setting. With a whole school approach and the offer of peer mentor training, students have been trained as wellbeing ambassadors to promote and raise the profile of mental health and wellbeing across the school community. Through the delivery of the training, students have been trained in a variety of wellbeing approaches and strategies. The Y6 to Y7 transition project has been hugely successful whereby Y7's feel welcomed through weekly one to one mentoring session developing a sense of belonging and connection with school through peer led initiatives. The wellbeing ambassadors are promoting early intervention and support peer to peer wellbeing. Students are normalising conversations about mental health and wellbeing and openly talking about worries and concerns in and outside of school.
The children said,
"This has been the best two afternoons, and I want to keep doing it." "The only improvement is that we could do more. The time went too quickly." "I think it is really good and now I can help others to feel good."
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