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Learning Mentors are school-based employees who, together with teaching and pastoral staff, assess, identify and work with those pupils who need extra help to overcome barriers to learning inside and outside school. In this way, they take some of the burden off teachers, who often feel as though they should be helping pupils to overcome problems inside and outside school. Having a Learning Mentor to help pupils tackle these problems frees teachers to teach.
Learning Mentors are also working closely with parents to help them provide an environment at home which is conducive to learning. They have good relationships with parents and offered support and guidance to them to ensure they do not feel isolated from what their children are learning and doing in school. Learning Mentors are an additional resource to help students tackle problems which teachers do not have the time to do. Learning Mentors can free teachers up to concentrate and focus on delivering the national curriculum. Learning Mentors and teachers have been working together very successfully with students to improve their attitudes and re-engage them in to learning. In September 2000 Hull appointed 65 Learning Mentors to operate across its 15 secondary schools. A further 15 LMs joined the team in September 2002 due to further resources from the DfES. Two of the fifteen are part funded by SENSS and Barnados, a unique partnership aimed at supporting children in two schools that have high numbers of pupils in public care. All 80 LMs are managed by a link co-ordinator, Jan Morrow, who is based at the North Hull CLC.
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