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Barons Court Primary School and Nursery

Mentors

Mentors

At Barons Court, our year six pupils apply for prefect roles that they are specifically interested in and the roles that they feel they can make a difference to across the whole school, once appointed. A mentor is one of the prefect roles and as a mentor the children work both internally; supporting our school community, and externally; supporting people in our local area. 

The 2024-2025 Nursery Mentors are: Betsy, Faith, Pippa, Hope and Tommy.

The 2024-2025 Community Mentors are: Evelyn, Robin, Kyrell, Luchia and Esha.

The 2024-2025 Academic Mentors are: Sai, Imogen, Lucas, Amelia and Ginevra.

The mentors are very passionate about making a difference to many people in our community both inside and outside of the school gates. They engage with the nursery children and support maths in Phase 3. The Nursery Mentors go into the Nursery twice a week to play with the children and to support them with learning new skills. They also  spend time exploring books with the children in  Phase 3 and supporting them with their use of phonics to read new words. 

The Community Mentors also recognise that we have so many great care homes in our local area who work very hard. They like to support the care homes across Westcliff and will be doing this by sending them video messages, stories, songs and activities this year. We are sure that the residents will really appreciate the thought and consideration and will enjoy  seeing the children regularly. 

Academic Mentors

Our Academic Mentors have been very busy over the Autumn Term and have been supporting our younger children with their learning.

Lucas has been teaching the younger children times tables the 2s, 5s and 10s. "I have enjoyed spending time with the younger children."  Imogen has shared with is that she has been teaching the children their times tables including their 2s, 5s, 10s, 3s and 4s with a game that she came up with called Times Table flash.  She has told us how much she enjoys spending time with the younger children and getting to know them. Amelia is really enjoying teaching the younger children as she wants to be a teacher when she grows up - great skills to practice!  Ginevra says, "I have enjoyed teaching the younger ones times tables including teaching them methods to learn them. When we finish the game for example I would try to teach them to recognise some patterns within the time tables."

Community Mentors

The Community Mentors have met several times this year and have developed an exciting programme of work for the year ahead.  They have planned to work with the Eco Council to lead a community litter pick later in the year and are establishing a link with Milton Community Partnership to offer to help tend some of the planted areas in the local community.  This year they have already led a Christmas Carol sing a long at the Milton House Care Home next to the school and helped Southend United deliver their Senior Shrimpers Christmas Party.  The Mentors are really excited about the year ahead and would love to hear from our community if there are any more projects you think that they could help with.

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