Peer Mentors are trusted listeners who, knowing more through experience, voluntarily commit to helping peers with a range of issues. 

Our Year 12 students apply and are selected through an interview process to become Peer Mentors. They have a full day of training with school councillors and members of the SEND team, where they learn all the skills that they need to carry out their role. Our Peer Mentors are reliable, approachable, non-judgemental and accepting of differences.

Every year, our Peer Mentors provide a service that supports our students to have a school within which they feel secure and happy. We want our students to know that there is always someone in our school community that they can turn to, should they need to.

Our Year 12 Peer Mentors meet with targeted students and offer 1:1 support on a weekly basis. They also visit Year 7 and some Year 8 forms, and guide them through their exciting but sometimes daunting transition into secondary school. They listen and offer encouragement, and are another avenue of support for their peers. Peer Mentors also play a valuable role in supporting incoming Year 7 students on their induction day, and are a friendly face all year round.

Member perspective

It's a great kind of responsibility. I feel I am in a privileged position to learn about and support other young people with the issues they are facing.

Current Y12 Peer Mentor