Mentoring

This section highlights the work done by Cassius Francis around mentoring and offers links to other local programmes.

The term ‘mentor’ has its origins in Greek literature. When Odysseus sailed to join the war against the Trojans, he chose a friend, Mentor, to act as a guide and advisor to his son Telemachus whilst he was away. In this sense, then, mentors will sometimes act like supervisors.

There are now ‘learning mentors’ employed in most of our primary and secondary school under the Excellence in Cities service, but there are also volunteer mentors working with Islington’s students. Cassius works across in both primary and secondary schools usually on a termly basis.

School based Mentoring schemes working in Islington