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5 September, 2025
Student Mentoring at Inglewood P-10
If anyone ever asks what is the advantage of having a school with students ranging from Prep year (starting with 4-year-olds) to Year 10 (15 or 16 years old); the answer is mentoring.
Statistics show the benefits of student mentoring are incredibly effective, with mentored youth being much less likely to skip school and much more likely to hold leadership positions and volunteer in the school community as they grow older.
Mentorship fosters a strong sense of belonging and has proven positive impacts on relationships, and talking to an older student is found to be refreshing and relatable for students’ experiencing anxiety.
This term our awesome Year 9 and 10 students have been working with the students in the Prep class and the 1/2 class across a variety of subject areas.
Mrs Mandy Lydement’s high school Home Economics classes designed menus and cooked for the younger students, including catering for students with some unusual food phobias (how do you explain pumpkin risotto?).
Mr Ross Lydement’s high school Fitness class analysed skills of young students and wrote programs designed to improve or extend their bike riding capabilities. Mr Lydement’s bike program is enormously popular on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday lunchtimes, encouraging students of all ages and abilities to get out and about riding bikes all over the school grounds.
High school students also read to the primary students in the Resource Centre and last week the Year 10 students mentored the Prep students, teaching them how to log on and off the computers independently. The littlies were so proud of themselves for conquering this new skill, and it was wonderful to see the high school students making the lesson so special for them. Just another example of how we care, we learn and together we succeed at Inglewood State School.
Article courtesy of Kim Osborne
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