Program Coordinator - Student Services
Brad Woodruff
Program Coordinator - Student Services
Brad Woodruff
Peer mentoring
Peer mentoring is a new Student Services initiative at the College. The aim of this program is to enable rewarding learning experiences, engage students and staff more actively in the College environment, helping students to transition to life at the College as smoothly as possible. Students will build constructive and rewarding peer relationships, across year groups, which will be helpful in their academic and future careers. This will be overseen by the College chaplain, Chris. He ran a similar program at his previous school with great success. We are very fortunate to have Chris leading this program.
Peer Mentors at the college aim to help students find support from each other through one-on-one and small-group mentoring. The program, therefore, links established students (Peer Mentors) with all new students entering the College in 2023.
Peer Mentors will provide;
Each Peer Mentor will be a member of a team of mentors. They will play a key role in assisting and connecting new students throughout the orientation and transition stages. Peer Mentors will provide practical guidance, encouragement, referrals and ongoing peer support. Peer Mentors are present and approachable. They are good observers and listeners. They have a positive attitude and an ability to generate good ideas.
Chris defines mentoring as:
A mentor is:
A mentor is not:
We have had a healthy number of Year 10 students volunteer as Peer Mentors. One student commented “I wish I had a mentor at the start of the year”. Their training will begin during Study Tour. Year 11 students will be invited to be part of the program soon.