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These suggestions will be taken forward and consideration given as to how they can be incorporated into the rest of the project. In the questionnaire the children were also asked to give a score out of 10 to three questions which are set out below, along with their responses.

1. Overall how has the mentoring programme been for you so far?

2. How useful are the mentoring assemblies with Mr Stewart?

3. How interesting/useful was the first motivation day?

It should be noted of course that the Year 6 staff, through their day-to-day work, have made a tremendous contribution to these outcomes and in that sense the mentoring programme has significantly augmented the work that would have taken place in any case.

Staff from across school have been impressed by the increasing level of maturity shown by the children who have developed an intrinsic focus and determination to achieve their very best. Equally visitors who took part in the Motivation Day have spoken very highly of their time with the children, in particular the quality of their questioning skills and the level of interest and understanding which the children demonstrated.

Class teachers have reported some noticeable changes in the children over the course of the project including:

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Working in partnership with Herman Stewart from Every Child Needs A Mentor, we launched our mentoring project with 89 Year 6 children in December 2014. Within one term, we delivered a series of assemblies along with the first Motivation Day and two staff training events. Mentors also meet weekly with their mentees in small groups. During the Motivation Day the children were able to meet with adults who have a variety of different jobs, with the aim of finding out that the keys to their success were.

In order to assess the impact on the children so far, each child has completed a questionnaire and some children have contributed to a short film, mentors and class teachers have also shared their views.

Key impacts on the pupils to date

These are the key messages which have come through from the questionnaires and pupil interviews. Many of these themes have been repeated on numerous occasions.

MENTORING HAS

HELPED CHILDREN DISCOVER MORE ABOUT THEMSELVES

IT HAS GIVEN THE CHILDREN MORE CONFIDENCE TO SPEAK IN CLASS, IN GROUPS AND IN THE MENTORING ASSEMBLIES

FOR SOME IT HAS REMOVED THE FEAR OF SATS AND CHANGING SCHOOLS

MENTORING GROUP DISCUSSIONS ARE HIGHLY

VALUED

MORE CHILDREN NOW REALISE THAT THEY CAN ACHIEVE

IN LIFE

THEIR CONFIDENCE IN THEMSELVES HAS

GROWN (ESPECIALLY GIRLS)

MORE CHILDREN HAVE AN IDEA ABOUT WHAT

C A R E E R THEY MIGHT LIKE TO PURSUE

THEY HAVE VALUED & LEARNED FROM HAVING THE CHANCE TO SPEAK WITH ADULTS AND FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THEIR TEACHERS

FINDING OUT ABOUT THE

JOBS PEOPLE DO AND HOW THEY GOT THEM

HELPING THEM TO BE

OPEN WITH OTHER PEOPLE

REALISING THAT SUCCESS IS BOTH EASY & DIFFICULT AT THE SAME

TIME

THAT THEY SHOULD STOP SAYING “I CAN’T” AND START SAYING

“I CAN”

SOME CHILDREN

HAVE OVERCOME SHYNESS

THEY HAVE FELT INSPIRED

THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN

GOOD ADVICETHEY FEEL MORE ABLE TO STAND UP FOR THEMSELVES

ALLOW M E N TO R I N G GROUPS THE

CHANCE TO TALK TO EACH OTHER AND SHARE IDEAS & VIEWS

HAVE MORE FOCUS ON THEIR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS (INCLUDING 1-2-1 MENTORING)

HAVE MORE MOTIVATION

DAYS

HAVE MORE PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL ON THE MOTIVATION DAYS

EXTEND MENTORING TO OTHER

YEAR GROUPS

The children have also made some suggestions about how to improve the project including:

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GIRLS - 8.8/10

BOYS - 8.5/10

GIRLS - 8.6/10

BOYS - 8.5/10

GIRLS - 8.8/10

BOYS - 8.7/10

MORE OF AN “I CAN” ATTITUDE TOWARDS THEIR WORK (INCLUDING IN SOME VERY CHALLENGING PUPILS WHO HAVE NEVER SHOWN THIS BEFORE)

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A QUIET CONFIDENCE IN MANY GIRLS

A MATURE ATTITUDE TOWARDS TESTS

BEING ABLE TO RELATE WHAT THEY ARE DOING IN SCHOOL TO THEIR FUTURE NEEDS

A GREATER AWARENESS OF THE OUTSIDE

WORLD

A DEVELOPING MATURITY SOME HARD TO REACH PARENTS HAVE ENGAGED WITH THE PROJECT, PROVIDING COMMENTS IN THE MENTORING BOOKLETS FOR EXAMPLE

FOCUS FROM CHILDREN IN TAKING PART IN THEIR GROUP MENTORING SESSIONS