Peer Mentoring

Our group of Peer Mentors has been working with the Form class 7D. We began this year, with the Year 7s on the first day of school, where we, the Peer Mentors, got to greet the Year 7s and run some ice breaker games and activities. We learnt the names of the students in this Form class and began to know more about them. We also ran them through some of our tips and tricks of SCEGGS, such as a tour of the school, how to set out their diaries and the way that their timetables work. A week later, we ran a newspaper fashion show with Year 7 where each Form class competed to see who could make the most creative fashion items. Most recently, we spent some time with the Year 7 students, in rotations discussing and answering any questions about general SCEGGS skills, e.g., items necessary for class, using OneNote and printing.

During our time with Year 7 we have been able to participate in so many fun activities with them, for example the newspaper fashion show that we held with them! We got to know the girls in our Form and share so many fun and silly ideas to create an amazing newspaper outfit. Our models then walked down the Great Hall runway with amazing speakers introducing them, this activity was so good to let us build both teamwork and friendships in the form group.

Our third and most recent session with Year 7 was conducted on Friday. Our aim was to grow 7Ds knowledge on a few basic skills such as organising their diaries, learning how to properly format an email, and how to use OneNote. We had 7D split up into groups of three, and each Peer Mentor would rotate around the groups, teaching the Year 7s a specific skill we think is important to learn as a SCEGGS girl. This was a fantastic opportunity to help them improve on these skills, get to know everyone better, and gave us time to reflect on how the first four weeks of the term was going. We formed deeper connections and had great conversations with our wonderful Form.

Georgia Cate Baker Wood, Olivia Davis, Ingrid Fairbairn, Sarah James, Frances O’Donnell, Mia Sparks, Zara Torrance
Peer Mentors for Year 7D