Manchester- St John's RC Primary School Project

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Monday and Wednesday afternoons 1-30 p.m. to 3-15 p.m.

This larger than average school, is located in the middle of one of Europe's biggest housing association-owned estates in South Manchester. The number of pupils from minority ethnic families, predominantly Indian, has increased significantly in the past three years, accounting for a third of all pupils. Most of these pupils speak English as an additional language. The proportion of pupils entitled to free school meals is well above average and the number with learning difficulties and/or disabilities is broadly average. The school has recently gained a number of nationally recognised awards, such as Inclusion Gold and Investors in People.

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The children that the school refer for mentoring are usually aged 9-11 and despite the challenges they face are thrilled to have a mentor. The school has had great success in the musical field winning many local and national awards for the choir.

You will be working closely with teachers who have identified the children who would most benefit from support from a mentor. They will provide you with work each week so you can work through this with your mentee but you should have time to deal with other issues such as poor self-esteem or self-confidence, behaviour or concentration issues.

Start date: As soon as possible after October half term (school). Induction meeting Tuesday 20th October at the school 10 am (this is a change of date!) Pick up 9-30 am Whitworth Art Gallery. Email Andrea McDermott or contact her to reserve your place.

Age of Mentees: 9-11

Duration: 2 hours plus 30 minutes transport each way.

Transport: All mentors are provided with free transport leaving from the Whitworth Art Gallery. map

Criteria for joining this project:

8 places are initially available, 4 on each day.

You will have to register as a mentor (to register click on the "Register" button on the sidebar to the left of this page).

You will need to satisfy the following training criteria:

Attending one of the two training options organised by ReachOut!

You will need to satisfy Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) Disclosure criteria. When you log in (use the Log In button on the sidebar to the left) after registering as a mentor you can follow the progress of your CRB application in your "home area." You can follow the navigational links to check how many places are still available for this project and if there are places still available, sign up for this or other projects.

You will need to have read our Mission statement which sets out our overall objectives and sets out the values which are fundamental to the project and the relevant ReachOut! policies and procedures. You will declare that you have read all these documents.

You will have to have (digitally) signed up to our Mentoring Agreement.