Mentoring Approach
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English Mentors supply what is missing from so many young lives, someone with the knowledge and empathy to stand outside the child-parent bond and provide objective advice; someone who can improve performance in formal education and supplement it with real-life skills; someone who can bring out ability and inspire the right career choice. We select the Mentor to work with your son or daughter, and together we develop a programme tailored to your schedule and your child’s needs.
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Live-In Mentoring
The attachment can be 24/7, the aim purely educational or long-term personal development and direction. By living in, our Mentor can build rapport, overcome academic blocks with one-on-one tuition, or provide necessary structure and stimulus over weekends or holidays.
Academic Needs
Though more specific, our academic Mentoring is just as flexible and comprehensive, embracing most subjects and all exams from Common Entrance to Undergraduate level. Our Mentors can help with a particular academic challenge, but also look beyond exam or curriculum to stimulate wider reading and develop the skills for sustained success.
Building a Career
We identify your child’s skills and interests before drawing on our pool of professional practitioners to provide an insider’s guide to entering, and succeeding in, their chosen field. The guidance is ongoing but begins with practical advice: interview technique, work placement, CV construction. Once on the career ladder, we help with the skills needed for promotion: leadership, presentation and organisation.
Life Skills
Life makes aggressive demands on young people today. Our Mentors look at what your child does well, and builds confidence and ability where it is lacking and necessary for success. Some, like IT skills, are a matter of technique and practice, but others – time management, motivation and goal setting – need patient explanation and embedding in your child’s life.
Adolescent to Adult
As children struggle with the transition to adult life they find it easier to identify with a role-model younger than their parents – a Mentor like ours who can introduce them to extra-curricular activities that develop character through challenge, and confidence with success outside their comfort-zones.
For the full range of interests and activities organised by our Mentors
Health & Wellbeing
We use specialist practitioners to talk about health issues for young people in day-long or residential seminars. Subjects include.
Drug Addiction
No children these days can be removed from the threat of drugs but they can be protected by education in the dangers of addiction. Our experts don’t preach, but they know how to convince.
Positive Thinking
Young people gain enormously from approaching challenges with a positive attitude, and we have the motivational experts to help them develop it.
Sexual Health
We equip young people with the knowledge they urgently need to make the right choices and avoid sexually transmitted diseases.
Exercise and Nutrition
Eating well and exercising regularly are the cornerstones of a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Our experts explain how good habits of diet and fitness, acquired early, prevent health problems later on.