Volunteer Mentor Review

I worked with 10-12 students in a secondary school, supporting them one-on-one, small group and in class with there curriculum, social-emotional development, attendance, and enrichment, this was full-time in a school four days a week Mon-Thu with Fridays official training days. An overview of my day consisted of breakfast club first thing in the morning, gate duty once a week during PDM, and for every lesson I was either in class with students, doing one-to-one mentoring sessions, doing admin such as attendance calls, or logging my activities on VM connect and pastoral duties.

Lots of responsibility with me and my team arranging social action projects to support the community, while I created various mentoring sessions, resources for classes, had a talk in an assembly, taught and ran a couple Go-IT classes.

Some of the key skills which I developed were communication skills as I had to chat to teacher's, students, members of SLT, and members of my team on a regular basis, I also developed time management, management of projects and created my own resources which were all developed initally at university and perfected at this job. New skills I developed were attendance and punctuality as I had 100% attendance, I also developed management and leadership skills with the nature of my role meaning I took on various projects.

Lots of support from my amazing team, impact officer, the project manager at city year, other members of staff and the program at City Year who throughout were supporting, engaging and is an expirience I will never forget.

Kind, engaging, understanding, creative, patient, enjoyable and Friendly.

10/10 it has developed my confidence, self esteem, and purpose in life and has lead to me getting a new role in a job which is similar to this, I am extremly thankful and will never forget what this amazing organisation has done for me, and which it will continue to do for other's

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