Firhouse Community College

Mentors

Mentors

taps.jpgTrinity Access, with whom we are a school of distinction has Mentoring as one of their core practices. We aim to exemplify this in our school. The mentoring core practice is as follows:

The Mentoring core practice involves various types of mentoring programmes, designed to foster academic and personal growth among all students. It includes, for example, college-focused mentoring, peer-to-peer mentoring, and career-focused mentoring. Mentoring provides all students with a supportive relationship with a more experienced individual who can serve as a role model-such as teachers, community leaders, peers, adults and/or college students. Mentoring is not a once-off activity; it involves a mentor engaging with a mentee/small group of mentees over a length of time.

In Firhouse community college we are embedding mentoring in the school as a whole, with the intentional aim that over the next few years that each and every year group will be involved in mentoring, either as a mentor to others, or as mentees.

Currently we have

5th Year Mentors

The 5th year Mentor Team for the year 2024/2025 are:

  1. James Balfe
  2. Mya Clare
  3. Grace Murphy
  4. Zoe Brewer
  5. Jodie Fishbourne
  6. Ava Kelly
  7. Eoghan Dunne
  8. Jason Wall
  9. Andrew Morrell
  10. Ellie May Carruth
  11. Killian Clare
  12. Vilte Vaitkute

Events: Set up a homework club for 2nd Yr students once a week, start in Jan/Feb.

Goals: Receiving training to be a 5th year Mentor.

  • Lead a study skills session to 1st and 2nd year students.
  • Receive training and participate in the program Big Brother, Big Sister from Foroige
  • Work with the SSE committee.
  • Each 5th Yr tutor group completes lift program during tutor class.

TY Digital Ambassadors

The TY Digital Ambassador Team for the year 2024 /2025are:

1.Sarah Meehan

2.Sean Kelly

3.Ryan Delappe

4.Khallad Abarttemid

5.Finn Dunphy

6.Mary Anderson

7.Emily Lyons Grant

8.Leah Gleeson

9.Paula Afumbom

10.Matas Kavaliukas

11.Sanya Singh

12.Monica Singh

13.Shona Cross

Abby Kavanagh

Events: Safer internet day Feb 2025

Microsoft Dreamspace Ambassador training, as follows :

  • Micro:bit 101 - Oct 16th (Wednesday)
  • Micro:bit Next Level - Nov 18th (Monday)
  • Hour of Code with Minecraft Education - Dec 11th (Wednesday)
  • Older Wiser Learner (OWL) - Jan 20th (Monday)
  • Safer Internet Day - Feb 5th (Wednesday)
  • MakeCode Arcade 101 - March 3rd (Monday)
  • MakeCode Arcade Next Level - March 24th (Monday)
  • Python 101 - April 2nd (Wednesday)

Goals: Ipad management

  • Computer Rooms
  • Coding Club
  • Training of students
  • CBA assisting
  • Internet awareness week

STEM Committee

Out STEM committee team for the year 2024/2025 are:

  1. Ava Cathart (Lead)
  2. Kayleigh Reilly
  3. Shona Cross
  4. Mary Anderson
  5. Jessica Lundberg
  6. Abby Kavanagh
  7. Adam Noone
  8. Leona Rogers
  9. Aoibheann Tierney
  10. Ava Walsh
  11. Sarah Meeh

Events:

  • 14th October STEM week
  • October Competition for designing STEM wall
  • 8thNovember STEM QUIZ
  • 13th January STEAM Wall presentations delivered to all first-year students
  • 22nd January STEAM Wall quiz
  • 3rd of March Primary School visit to carry out Experiments
  • 9th of April Scifest for all 2nd Year Students
  • 9th of May Science Fair for all 1st Year students

Goals:

  • Students participate in BT young scientists
  • Raise awareness of STEM subjects
  • STEM committee will mentor 1st year students for science fair

The current staff team are as follows:

Ms Crossan TAP mentoring lead
Ms Scally 6th year
Ms Martyn 5th year
Ms Delagic and Ms Wisely Community Rep
Ms Margaret Kavanagh Kindness Ambassador
Ms Doyle Kindness Ambassador
Ms Crossan Archbishops Nominee

These groups have all received training to date and will be instrumental in setting up and facilitating our mentor programs and initiatives going forward.

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