This is our Mentors' Resources for High Schools link page

Here you can find links to resources to help you provide support for your mentee in High schools. Click on one of the links below to move quickly to the age group and activity you think might be of interest.

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Year 7-9 (11-13 years old)

Year 10-11 (14-16 years old)

Year 7-9

• Consequences Grace Payne / Chorlton High School
• Descriptions Game Grace Payne / Chorlton High School
• Map Making Grace Payne / Chorlton High School
• Badges Grace Payne / Chorlton High School
• Magic Tricks Grace Payne / Chorlton High School

Year 10-11

• Human Bingo Andrea McDermott
• Graffiti Andrea McDermott

Consequences

• Suitable for 2 but the more players the better

• Each person is given a piece of paper on which they write a person's name (known or celebrity is usually funnier) the paper is folded over to hide it and passed to the next person.

• Another name is written and the process repeated.

• Keep passing the paper round to create a disjointed story

• A loose frame for the story would be

1. characters name (a)
2. meets... new character (b)
3. where do they meet?
4. (a) says to (b)...
5. (b) replies...
6. the consequence of the above story

• Be prepared for the consequence to revolve around getting married/having lots of babies!
  * This can also work for drawing/collage, where the head is drawn/stuck on, folded over, passed around, then body etc to create mismatched monsters

Descriptions Game

• 4 or more players

• Get into pairs (if odd number, nominate someone as the judge/time keeper)

• Each person writes down 5-10 names (depending how long you want the game to go on for) of sports people, celebrities, cartoon characters etc on little pieces of paper which are folded up and put into a bowl

• Each pair has a minute to pick out names and describe the person for their partner to guess (without mentioning any part of the name of course e.g. for Bart Simpson you cant say "he's in The Simpsons" you have to say something like "son of Homer")

• Each pair must guess as many names as possible in their minute. If someone is in the middle of the description when the whistle blows, they must stop immediately, refold and put back the name. If someone is really stuck they can fold it up and put it back and pick another.

• Continue around the pairs until there are no names left in the bowl

• The winner of the first round is the one with the most bits of paper.

• Refold the paper and put them back into the bowl for the 2nd round.

• Second round is the same as the first but you can only use 3 words to describe the people. As you are using the same names as before you should have a good idea of which names are going to come up so shouldn’t be too difficult.

• Winner has most bits of paper when bowl is empty, put back for 3rd and final round.

• Third round players are only allowed to perform an action to describe the names, no mouthing words!

• Total the scores from each round to find the overall winning pair

Map Making

• This is good in the early stages for getting to know your mentee better.

• Blow up a photocopy of an A-Z of your local area, or get an atlas from the library to copy out towns/countries.

• Draw/stick on/label important areas for you both, or draw on routes e.g. basketball court where I go on a Saturday for training, house with the scary dog that barks when I cycle past, route to school, Carphone Warehouse where my brother works, France where I go camping with my family every summer etc.

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Badges

Resources needed:  cardboard, safety pins, bit of scrap material, glue, thread, needles, buttons, sequins etc to create your own fashionable badges.  Don't be surprised if boys want to get involved too!

Magic Tricks

• - It was a good exercise in confidence and showmanship when performing to the other mentors/mentees at the end of the session.

• Children’s libraries usually have books on magic tricks, or you can find some instructions on the internet.

• The ones using playing cards are usually easiest to do and involve less props.

Human Bingo (2 or more people)

• Email Andrea to ask for the activity sheet.
• Great icebreaker where you have to find people who have certain features or like certain things.

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Graffiti

• Spray paint and wallpaper or thick paper.
• Make sure there’s enough ventilation or that you do this outside
• Talk or discuss the pros and cons of graffiti and why people do it.
• Write your own frustrations and names with the spray paint, practising the ‘typical’ techinique and look of graffiti.
• Stencils can also be used and there are loads of websites on which you can print out free ones.

See http://www.wikihow.com/Draw-Graffiti to find out more on drawing certain styles of writing.

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