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Krunch School Transition Mentoring

Service aim:
To support a positive transition to secondary, by increasing emotional health and well-being and supporting school engagement

Intended Outcomes:
• Mentees will be better able to recognise potentially harmful relationships and situations.
• Mentees will be able to name and describe healthy relationship qualities.
• Mentees will show improved self-esteem and confidence.
• Mentees will more positively engage with their new secondary school.


Target Group Criteria:
Year 6 children who are at risk of disengaging from education and experiencing 1 or more of the following issues:
• Struggling to form and maintain friendships.
• Vulnerable to exploitation and/or lacking in awareness of how to keep themselves safe and ask for help.
• Exhibiting unsafe behaviours or associating with negative peer groups in the local community
• Family/siblings history of offending.
• Disengagement from learning in Year 6
• Compromised emotional health and wellbeing.
• Low self-esteem or confidence


Session Content:
• A pre and post Emotional Health and Wellbeing questionnaire which screens for areas of concern and risk around mental health
• Therapeutic talking space (advice, guidance, and education) about relevant issues which are currently affecting the young person
emotionally and socially.
• Activities, games and tasks to support solution finding, developing strategies for emotional regulation, increasing confidence, positive
decision making, psychoeducation, resilience building and improving emotional literacy.
• Facilitating the hearing of the young person’s voice with all involved professionals and working towards improved understanding between
the mentee and adults within the educational setting
• Education (where necessary) around RSE, weapons and the law, the reality of gang involvement and prevention of CCE
• Signposting young people to positive activities and opportunities outside of school
• Regular communication with the referring agency and attendance at multi agency meetings, when necessary, in the best interests of the
young person
• Weekly feedback for all mentoring sessions provided to all relevant professionals


Krunch requires:
• An electronically completed referral form for all new referrals to enable us to assess if we can meet the needs of the pupil before mentoring
commences.
• Parent/carer consent
• A confidential space in school to work in
• A main school contact person in both the referring school and the Head of Year 7 in the intended secondary school to send feedback to and
liaise with

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