School mentoring schemes

Mentoring is a relationship between an adult and a young person that provides the young person with consistent support, guidance, assistance and non-judgemental adult advice.

Mentoring also gives adults the opportunity to be a positive role model for young people by sharing their knowledge, skills and life experiences

Becoming a business mentor

For information on becoming a voluntary business mentor in Tower Hamlets schools, please contact:

Education Business Partnership
Sunley House
Toynbee Hall
28 Commercial Street
London
E1 6LF

Tel: 020 7377 9497

Learning mentors – removing barriers to learning and supporting achievement

Learning mentors work mainly with children and young people who are significantly underachieving. They are:

• salaried staff who work with pupils to help them to identify and address barriers to learning
• a bridge across academic and pastoral support roles with the aim of ensuring that individual pupils engage more effectively with learning and achieve appropriately
• a key ingredient in many approaches to improve the achievement level of pupils

Learning mentors spend most of their time working one-to-one with pupils, but will also work with small groups and sometimes with the families of mentees.

Learning mentors are part of the Children’s Workforce. The Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) endorses their training, qualifications and minimum standards of practice. For information on CWDC Induction Training Programmes and national accredited qualifications please visit CWDC - learning mentors.

Becoming a learning mentor

Tower Hamlets schools manage their own learning mentor schemes with guidance and support from the central Excellence in Cities Team and learning mentors are employed directly by the schools in Tower Hamlets.

If you would like to become a learning mentor, you will need to approach individual schools directly. Please refer to the list of Tower Hamlets schools.  

Once in post, learning mentors are provided with ongoing training from the borough’s Excellence in Cities Team to ensure they reach the CWDC Induction Standards and develop their mentoring skills.

Requesting a learning mentor

If you would like to make a request for a learning mentor for a child, you will need to approach your local school directly.

Please refer to the list of Tower Hamlets schools.