Peer Support Training Day

By TBHS | Posted: Wednesday December 7, 2016

Timaru Boys’ High School runs a strong Peer Support programme which sees Year 13 boys being trained to work alongside the new intake of Year 9s and to take responsible leadership within the school.

Peer Support Key Principles

• Students beginning high school need a safe environment in which to develop skills to look after themselves and each other
• Students beginning secondary school will develop self confidence and resiliency through relating to each other and senior students and through establishing friendships with their peers
• Contact with senior students will help students starting high school to develop self confidence
• Senior students acting in leadership roles to support students starting secondary schools will provide positive role models to junior students

This past week saw 40 potential Peer Support Leaders spend a day training together as part of the selection process. It is always difficult to say there is only an opportunity for five leaders to be assigned to each Year 9 camp when generally speaking, most boys who put themselves forward are more than capable of being trained as leaders.

With there being only 25 available spaces for 2017, we encourage students who miss out on this opportunity to embrace other opportunities for Year 13 leadership within the school, such as house competitions, vertical forms, coaching sports teams, organising the ball - the list is endless for our senior students to have fun with their peers in leading activities they enjoy.