Mentoring
NYBEP supports mentoring schemes in Primary and Secondary schools.
The aims of the programme are:
- To re-engage students who have lost interest in learning and need encouragement;
- To give students contact with positive role models;
- To help students broaden their horizons and raise their aspirations;
- To help students improve low self esteem and self-confidence;
- To support students who have ambitions in ‘non-traditional’ areas or if they are gifted and talented.
Mentors are recruited from local businesses, the community, further education colleges and universities. NYBEP assists schools in recruiting mentors and carrying out the necessary clearance checks. Schools provide new mentors with a school-based induction and mentors are also supported with a resource pack NYBEP have recently developed.
