The Superstar Challenge

The Mentivity Superstar Challenge is a sports mentoring programme that supports young people aged 10-11 who are transitioning from primary school to secondary school. The programme prepares these students through group work, sports & physical activity and one-to-one mentoring, for life in year 7. The programme also provides targeted one-to-one mentoring to those who are identified as needing additional support in the academic year ahead.

This project is funded by London's Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), supported by the Mayor of London, and delivered by Mentivity as the delivery organisation.

Mentivity mentors use the Skills Builder Universal Framework in 1:1 sessions with transition mentees, helping to simplify the information and end goal for mentees. Mentees are supported to identify focus skill steps to work on and rate their confidence to demonstrate these. They are supported to reflect on these through the programme, and track their progression using essential skill checklists.  Mentors also track the progression they are seeing and share this with mentees, using the language of the Universal Framework.

Once both mentors and mentees feel a target has been achieved, they move onto the next essential skill, which is mutually agreed upon.

This has helped with the commitment from mentees to improve and develop the essential skills they are targeting. The success of this is evident in the feedback that has been received from the mentees as well as their schools. All schools are provided with weekly session notes so the progress is easily tracked.