We’re proud to be involved in this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week 2023, created by one of our charity partner organisations, Place2Be. This year’s theme is ‘Let’s Connect’, highlighting the importance of relationship building and supporting young people to unlock their potential and thrive.

One of the things we do best at Tutor Trust is enabling the young people we work with to reach their potential thanks to the strong, trusting relationships they build with their tutor over the course of a block of tuition. We achieve this through small group tuition (a maximum of three pupils per tutor) and a focus on relationship building through our tutor training, our amazing Snap Survey, and a series of tutorials and CPD sessions to support our tutors throughout their time with us.

You can read about how tutoring helps our tutors and tutees to connect as part of our mental health blog series here:

• Hear from tutors Cailum and Marco about the difference tutoring can make to a young person’s mental health: “The most important job in the world to me” | The Tutor Trust
• Hear from tutors Zaynab and Danielle about the importance of talking about mental health: “There is no ‘cookie-cutter’ definition of what mental health looks like” | The Tutor Trust
• Tutors Rebecca, Maymunah and Daisie talk about making connections through tutoring: "Just that small conversation would mean so much" | The Tutor Trust

This year, during this Children’s Mental Health Week, follow us on social media (@TheTutorTrust) where we’ll be sharing some of our favourite tutoring resources from Place2Be to enhance your tutoring sessions.

And if you’re a tutor with us, we’ve got two upcoming events to mark the occasion:

Relationships: Your most valuable resource for classroom success

Free tutor CPD: Wednesday 8^th February 2023, 4pm – 5pm, Zoom.

We are all aware that building good relationships is the key to success in any environment. However, this is even more crucial when working with children and young people, especially those who are vulnerable and may have experienced trauma.

Come join Jo Meredith, former Secondary Headteacher and our Director of Tutoring Plus, to take a look into some tried and tested strategies for developing trusting relationships. Jo recently hosted this workshop with amazing reviews from the University of Manchester's Inclusion Conference 2023, and it's sure to be an engaging session for all. These relationships are key to ensuring engagement and achievement, so make sure you come to pick up some new ideas.

If you’d like to find out more about relationship-building with pupils, then you can read Jo’s blog here.

Sign up for the CPD event on our Thinqi platform, here.

#Let'sConnect – Tutor meet-up and resource-swap event

Thursday 16^th February, 5:30 – 6:30pm, Tutor Trust Manchester office

Are you a current tutor looking to get the Spring Term off to the best start? Perhaps you’re new to the city and looking to make some tutor friends…

Join us for an informal get together where you can chat about tuition, make friends with like-minded people, pick up some creative new ideas, and grab some freebies. Did we mention free pizza?

Plus, we'll have our brilliant Coordinators on hand to answer any of your questions about upcoming assignments and introduce you to the fabulous Tutor Trust support team.

Sign up via Thinqi, here.

 

If you’d like to know more about how you can be a part of our success story, visit our application page.

We look forward to connecting more with our tutors and tutees over the next term – and continuing to transform lives through tutoring!