YEAR 10 students at St Antony's Catholic College are undertaking some special training as they prepare to welcome next year's intake of 11-year-olds.
The Urmston church school's student leadership co-ordinator Anna McDonald said: “This September around 120 young boys and girls will step inside a whole new world as all the challenges of big school beckon. Some will do so with confidence looking forward to every challenge but many will be nervous.
“That is why we appoint a team of peer mentors from Year 10 to help with the transition and give them training so they can make our newcomers welcome, comfortable and happy to be here.”
This year St. Antony's has gone even further in empowering its students by appointing last year's senior peer mentor Lauren Caulfield-Lock, who is only 15 to lead that training.
St. Antony's Catholic College associate headteacher Fiona Wright said: “If you give young people responsibility they will grasp, use it and learn from it and we have some wonderful young people who are all eager to help.”
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