Mentoring for students
Our mentors support students with 1:1 tuition and mentorship at home and online, helping them find success with today’s problems and tomorrow’s challenges.
We mentor young people to academic success.
We believe every young person should have a mentor: an inspiring person invested in their future. Oppidan students become more confident, academically successful and engaged in school life. Through carefully designed educational programmes at every age phase, we ensure improved, long-term student outcomes.
Academic mentoring
Through one-to-one mentoring and tuition, Oppidan students achieve sustainable success. They are prepared for tests and exams, but equally skilled for the wider challenges of moving school and applying for university.
We support with:
11+ assessments Common Entrance Interviews GCSEs A levels & IB University applications
Character mentoring
Our character education programmes help young people to develop the confidence and communications skills to prepare for their next steps, whether at school and university or into careers and their adult life.
Our character mentoring programmes:
What parents say
How it works
1.
Tell us about your child
Get in touch with the team. Our client managers will discuss your child over the phone to align expectations.
2.
Make a plan and agree focus
We’ll create a structure together and decide how best to support you and your child.
3.
We’ll find a mentor for your child
We’ll create a structure together and decide how best to support you and your child.
4.
Start sessions and track progress
Once you are underway, we’ll track the impact of sessions in line with the overall focus.
Mentors
Our mentors are extraordinary people
They're hands down the best thing about Oppidan. We train them carefully for work with families and schools and also run ongoing professional development workshops to ensure they stay on top of their game.
Trained in safeguarding with DBS certificates
Professionally trained and onboarded
Diverse academic and professional backgrounds
School advice
We support parents with school choices
Meet Cat Sutherland Hawes. After nearly 20 years as Director of Admissions at both Latymer Upper School and Wycombe Abbey, we are hugely fortunate to call upon her experience and professionalism in supporting Oppidan families with their school choices.
