Mentivity is an Alternative Educational Provision based in South London, we have identified the need for a service that can support those deemed "at risk" and on the "margins" of society. Our holistic service provides ongoing support within Pupil Referral Units and Mainstream Schools using a variety of tailor made methods and interventions, deemed necessary and appropriate for each individual young person. We provide a needs based service, to effect positive and sustained change in our young people.• Mentivity aims to increase personal, cultural and structural understanding of the world that surrounds our young people, through positive and engaging activities, sports participation, mentoring, formal/informal education and nurturing conversations to effect positive change within their own lives.• Mentivity strives to successfully mentor young people in a positive, understanding and encouraging manner that will inspire them to engage and successfully reintegrate into the school and wider society, whilst improving their learning outcomes.• Alongside this process we at Mentivity shall use sport and positive and enriching activities as a rehabilitative and engaging tool to cultivate young people, acquiring positive transferable qualities that sport and positive activities can offer, allowing and assisting them to develop personally, socially and educationally as young people.• This will in turn stimulate critical thinking amongst young people, through engaging conversation, inspirational workshops, motivating presentations to assist the process. Allowing the young people to develop increased self-discipline, to become more accountable and responsible for their own actions, whilst realizing that they can make positive contributions to their own lives and consequently society as a whole.

Liaise regularly with the Senior Pastoral Manager and Welfare Co-ordinator regarding student welfare, attendance and matters of discipline ensuring that detailed evidence of actions and interventions for students are kept.Act as the first come first contact for parents regarding the Year group for all matters. Pass on the content of the communication to the appropriate people and respond accordingly ensuring prompt feedback to parents.Apply the School’s attendance policy ensuring regular attendance at school and reduce unauthorised attendance and improve punctuality.Utilise all data to monitor individuals with the year group and to intervene as necessary, recommending rewards, sanctions and pastoral interventions as necessary and working with Heads of departments and outside agencies as appropriate.To oversee the pastoral care and behaviour management of students in the year group and support departments in carrying out and promoting the Behaviour Management policy.Initiate, organise and assist (as appropriate) with all school events/matters relating to the Year group, e.g. Parent consultation evenings, parents in partnership events, student voice, assembly programmes, student mentoring, etc.Ensure that Form Tutors, Senior Pastoral Manager and other staff as appropriate are kept fully informed about all matters pertaining to the students in their care. Attend meetings relevant to the job purpose. To assist in escorting students on educational visits and to participate in extra-curricular activities as requiredForward reports to inclusion panel on students and monitor the effect of interventionsWork cooperatively with other members of the Pastoral Team covering and actively supporting each other as and when necessary.Seek to involve parents in the educational life of their child/children.Meet obligations with respect to the school’s system of performance management.Be committed to one’s own professional improvement

Walworth Academy: as a Learning Mentor, the role incorporates pastoral,academic and behaviour support responsibilities; I am also a Year 10 form tutor. On a day-to-day basis I am responsible for managing the KS4 internal referral unit in accordance with the Academy Behaviour Policy, running KS4 boys’ mentoring groups, and I work as part of the KS4 Pastoral team on the on-call rota as well as in the Learning Support and Inclusion Team, which offers one-to-one mentoring of targeted students and in-class support for students returning from exclusion. The first aspect of my current role involves dealing with students who are referred to the unit for a period of reflection following an incident in class, as part of the behavior on call system, or for a fixed term exclusion of up to five days. In the first instance, I encourage students to reflect on their behaviour and to set personal targets using a pastoral support plan (PSP). I am passionate about young people achieving their full potential and I have consistently high expectations of students, encouraging them to focus on the long term goal of a minimum 7 A*-C at GCSE, but setting them interim SMARRT targets as a framework within which to work. I add the extra ‘R’ because I record all objectives set, so that there is a working agreement between the students and the Academy. Where students are referred to the Unit for a fixed period, I organise the setting of work for students and oversee the completion of their work in all subjects, as well as supporting the reintegration process following an exclusion by supporting students in class for their first few lessons.