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At Grove Academy, we recognise the immense impact a learning mentor can make on a young person and implement a comprehensive programme of mentoring throughout secondary phase.

The purpose of mentoring is to provide guidance, motivation, emotional support and role modelling to children and support with exploring careers, setting goals, building positive relationships and being prepared.

Mentors may be assigned to a child for many reasons such as to provide guidance, motivation, emotional support, and role modelling. Children benefit from this type of input in many ways such as feeling reassured, building confidence, enhancing self-esteem, developing behaviour management, adjusting attitudes, learning self-regulation and making better choices. Positively effecting and encouraging student achievement and engagement, ultimately leads to higher educational and social aspirations.

Children and young people can often help each other by supporting in building and developing friendships. Often new students are assigned a peer mentor or ‘buddy’ who will help them in settling into the school, making friends and working together in the classroom.

Mentoring can have powerfully positive effects on young people and providing meaningful connections and support, encouragement and guidance to achieve in a variety of personal, academic, and professional situations. By role modelling and facilitating personal growth and development, young people gain the confidence to access social and economic opportunities.