Peer Mentoring helping First Years settle in

The peer mentoring programme is offered by the school to help our new first years with the transition from primary to secondary school. As in previous years, the mentors are Transition Year students who express an interest in working with the first years. They apply to become mentors and if successful undertake training in how to be an effective mentor to the new students.

In our school the TY mentors are divided up between the three first year tutorials. Each tutorial has three mentoring sessions with the older students, who run large and small group activities. This provides the first years to have fun and to gives them the chance to speak about how they are settling in and to ask for clarification from the older students if they are unsure about any aspect of school life.

Nine of the TY mentors met the new students on their very first day in MCS, helping them find their way around the school and to make them feel welcome.