Student views of mentoring

Mentoring Project Home Other links Ruth's Resources Dyslexia Learning Support General Education National Initiatives Mentoring Raising Achievement Post 16 Revision Software sources Neat Ideas Stress-busting	What do students think about mentoring? These are some of the comments about mentoring from Y11 students. They were gathered as part of our evaluation of Rhyddings mentoring project.

	David	David believed the mentoring programme had been "quite useful" and "very enjoyable" and something into which he had put a lot of effort. His mentor (Phil Pickering) gave him "help and assistance" with his English. David felt that the three most important benefits he got out of mentoring were "Public relations", "Interview techniques" and a "good break from school." Most enjoyable was "talking to someone about [his] career". Overall, David felt mentoring to have been very worthwhile.
	Amy thought mentoring helps you because when you get angry with teachers you can come here (the mentoring base) and chill out.	Amy
	Parveen	Parveen felt she had found out more about "schoolwork, future careers, learnt all about study skills and how to manage time and how to work under pressure". She also thought she had "learned more", that "things were explained better" to her and that the SRB mentoring Project had "made lessons in school much easier".
	Andrew thought the mentoring programme was "very useful. You could get help with things if you needed it and they're also there to guide you in the right direction."	Andrew
	Laura	Laura believed her mentor helped her to organise coursework and with study skills. Most enjoyable for Laura was, "having somebody there to ask for advice and them actually listening to what you say."
	Sonia found her mentoring relationship to be "enjoyable" and "quite useful". In particular she felt it helped her to be able "to talk to people with confidence". In the sessions Sonia and Mark talked about "Careers" and "free time".	Sonia
	Nicola	Of the mentoring programme, Nicola thought "the most useful thing" was that "you get help with your work if you get stuck on anything".
	Waheed thought the three most important benefits of the mentoring program were "advice about possible jobs", "guiding me about right and wrong" and "telling about other opportunities like college courses." The most enjoyable part of the mentoring programme was "getting another person's point of view". And overall the mentoring programme was "very worthwhile because I understand now about more opportunities".	Waheed
	Ryan	Ryan thought, "It gives me time to catch up with things such as Coursework" and that he "received study skills and coursework guidance".