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Year 7 Mentoring

Term 3:

The theme of the activities you will complete in mentoring

during the third term are resilience.

We will be considering how we can be resilient in school and in

our local communities.

Name:………………………………………………………… Mentor Group:

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Year 7 Mentoring Plan

Day Activity

Monday Mentoring—Accelerated Read-

er (15mins), Numeracy (15mins)

Tuesday Enrichment— chosen activities

Wednesday Assembly

Thursday Mentoring—tasks relating to

the theme of the term.

Friday Mentoring—tasks relating to

the theme of the term.

Mentoring Termly Themes

Term 1 - Organisation

Term 2 - Communication

Terms 3 - Resilience

Term 4 - Initiative

Term 5 - Leadership

Term 6 - Reflection

All of the themes you

cover this year will involve you

completing different tasks

and challenges.

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Claude the Conduct Puppy

I will be given to the mentor group

with the most improved conduct

points each week.

Your challenge is record what Claude has been

up to throughout the week by using:

Photographs

Videos

Twitter (@Y7Ridgeway)

Or other innovative ways approved by your

mentor

Send to Miss Dalley at the end of the week to

be shared in assembly.

Profile

Name: Claude

Breed: Labrador

Interests: Team building,

numeracy challenges and

encouraging positive conduct

points :)

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Mentoring Challenges

In your booklet you will find different ways to complete

activities, these are called ‘Mentoring Challenges’.

Look out for these different challenge symbols in

your booklet:

Symbol Challenge Type

Personal Challenge

Complete the challenge on your own. You will

need to use your independent learning skills for

this challenge.

Small team challenge

Complete the challenge in small groups . You will

need to assign roles and responsibilities to

complete the challenge successfully.

Mentor group challenge

Complete the challenge as a whole mentor

group . You will need to assign roles and respon-

sibilities to complete the challenge successfully.

Twitter challenge

Upload your challenge evidence to Twitter

(@Y7Ridgeway) via your mentor.

Try to be creative when uploading your

challenge evidence.

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What is Resilience?

Mind map below any words that you would associate

with being resilient...

What is

resilience?

Write a definition of what you think resilience is:

Write down the real definition of resilience (ask your mentor):

Extension:

As a mentor group create a tweet that explains why you

think resilience is an important quality.

Use #resilienceatridgeway

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How can we be resilient in school?

Below is an example of how someone can be resilient in school…

Jordan had the results back from his math assessment ‘You have achieved: 52/100’.

He really wanted to get over 70 marks to reach his target level and was very disappointed

in himself, so much that he felt like giving up! The teacher gave Jordan some feedback on

his test and encouraged him to keep trying. Jordan was determined not to give up, he did

lots of revision and challenged himself in lessons in preparation for his next assessment.

It was a huge achievement for Jordan when he found out he achieved 78/100.

Come up with two of your own ideas of how you can be

resilient in school. Use the key words box to help you.

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In small groups, choose one idea a turn it into a role

play. Ask you mentor to take photographs. Tweet them

using #resilienceatridgeway

Courage Determination Patience Loyalty Kindness Skilful

Sympathy Passionate Skilful Creative Quick thinking

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What’s been in the news?

How has this person been resilient?

Timothy Nigel Peake is a former regular British Army Air Corps officer (now a Reservist)

and a current European Space Agency astronaut.

He is the first British ESA astronaut, the sixth British-born person to visit the Interna-

tional Space Station and the seventh British-born person in space. He began the ESA's in-

tensive astronaut basic training course in September 2009 and graduated on 22 November

2010

Upon graduation from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1992, Peake served as a platoon

Commander with the Royal Green Jackets. Peake became a qualified helicopter pilot in 1994

and a qualified flight instructor in 1998. In 2005, he graduated from the Empire Test Pilots

School in Wiltshire and was awarded the Westland's Trophy for best rotary wing student.

Peake completed a BSc (Hons) in Flight Dynamics & Evaluation at the University of Ports-

mouth. Peake left the army in 2009 after 17 years of service and over 3,000 flying hours to

his credit, becoming a test pilot with AgustaWestland.

Peake beat over 8,000 other applicants for one of the six places on the ESA's new astro-

naut training programme. The selection process included taking academic tests, fitness as-

sessments and several interviews. Peake moved to Cologne (Germany) with his family for the

training.

Peake was launched to the International Space Station (ISS), on 15 December 2015, for

Expeditions 46 and 47. He launched successfully at 11:03 GMT from Baikonur Cosmo-

dromeon board Soyuz TMA-19M.

Read through the article below as a class.

Highlight the parts that show resilience.

How has Tim Peake been resilient and

what has this helped him to achieve?

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Why is resilience important in sport?

Match up the people below with what they have

achieved.

All of these people have won awards in sport. Why is resilience important

for these people?

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Resilience in stories...

What is your favourite book?

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Why is this your favourite book?

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What happens in the book? (write a very short summary)

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Think about you’re a character in the book that you think shows resilience….

Draw what you think the

character looks like.

Explain why you think this character shows resilience…

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My Story

Create your own story about a character who shows resilience.

It can be any type of story and might even use the characters

from your favourite book.

You can either write your story below or create a storyboard on the

next page.

Your mentor will choose the most creative stories to publish on Twitter

#resilienceatridgeway

11 Team challenge: Work in small groups to role play your story boards!

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#resilienceatridgeway Reflection...

Reflecting on term 3, think about the examples of

people who have been resilient and what they have

achieved.

Looking back at your mentor group’s first #resilienceatridgeway tweet in

term 3, howhas your view on resilience has changed?

Create your final tweet, showing what you have learnt about resilience. This

tweet must be completed as a whole mentor group.

You might want to consider:

The examples of people who have been resilient and what they have

achieved.

How you have shown resilience this term and what you have achieved

by doing this.

How you present your final tweet e.g. photographs, role plays,

posters etc. You can be as creative you like.

Use the space below to plan some ideas...

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