A City Year UK team of inspirational young people represents a considerable and unique extra resource to schools. As ‘near peer’ role models and tutors, our City Year Mentors complement the work of teachers and become an integral and flexible part of everyday school life.
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Our young people have time to build trust with individual pupils - to coach them and to show them what they are capable of. However, they also embody our culture, which aims to bring joy to learning and inspire high aspirations and standards across the whole school.
“Even though Miss is my mentor, she is like a friend too, because of how much she is there for me and supports me. In high school I haven’t really made people proud, but since meeting Miss, she’s one of the people I want to make proud, because when people didn’t believe in me, she did."
Pupil Year 11
A recruitment pipeline
About a third of our City Year Mentors go on to work in education – either as trainee teachers, teaching assistants or pastoral support workers. 10% of our alumni are employed by a City Year UK partner school, and for some partners we provide a vital pipeline to fill staff vacancies.
“It's a privilege to work alongside such motivated, selfless, dedicated and inspiring young people! They support our pupils in a variety of ways through the day, such as breakfast clubs, lessons, playtimes, lunchtimes, at after-school clubs, on educational trips and add immense value to our school."
Head of School Primary School, London
A tailored model
Although we have a distinct model, informed by our research and experience in both the US and the UK, we work closely with our partner schools to ensure it's tailored to meet each school's individual needs, every day, for a whole year.
Find out more by visiting a school to see our City Year Mentors in action or speak to a headteacher to learn why they partner with us. Talk to us about the associated costs and how other schools fund their contribution to a City Year UK team.
Teams deliver integrated, evidence-based interventions
Focus on attendance, behaviour and curriculum attainment
Development of social and emotional skills
Support for the whole school
Reinforce the work of teachers - an extra classroom resource
Additional capacity during lunch and breaktimes
Organise and lead extra-curricular activities
“I would recommend City Year UK to other schools without reservation - having them as part of our staffing body is an absolute no-brainer. Where else could I get seven aspirational young people, whose moral purpose is getting children to succeed?”
Executive Principal, Academies Trust The West Midlands
