At Reading Blue Coat School (RBCS), we are engaged in developing our peer mentoring programme to meet our pastoral care responsibilities. To put this into a national context, news items have recently drawn attention to young people’s well-being (NHS, 2017; Sellgren, 2018), and the government has prioritised encouraging peer-to-peer support as a method to develop resilience in young people (Department of Health and Department for Education, 2017).
Developing our peer mentoring programme
Aligning our existing peer mentoring programme more closely with our pastoral targets was the main aim of this project. Our targets include: Developing an understanding and awareness of wellbeing
Ensuring a smooth transition into the school and between sections for students
Promoting emotional intelligence, resilience and self-awareness. Following a literature review, a number of valuable conclusions were drawn regarding peer mentoring programmes: Peer mentoring is commonplace in a
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