{"id":250,"date":"2019-10-05T09:19:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T09:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/bellahoustonacademy2019\/?page_id=250"},"modified":"2024-11-26T14:33:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T14:33:16","slug":"mcr-pathways","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/bellahoustonacademy2019\/mcr-pathways\/","title":{"rendered":"MCR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MCR Pathways is a school-based mentoring programme.\u00a0It supports those in or on the edges of the care system to realise their full potential through education. MCR recruits, trains and matches volunteer mentors with a young person.<\/p>\n<p>The MCR Mentoring Programme is now in all Glasgow secondary schools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How Do We Help?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MCR Pathways supports young people in the school environment.\u00a0Bellahouston Academy\u00a0has a full-time Pathways Coordinator who works directly with identified young people. We help these pupils re-engage and then transition from school to Higher Education, Further Education, or employment. The programme includes three main elements:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mentoring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each young person is matched with their own mentor from S3 stage onwards. Pupils meet with their mentor once a week for 50 minutes and receive guidance and support. Mentors build a relationship, helping their young person to develop confidence and self-esteem. We ask our mentors for a commitment of at least one year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MCR Pathways is a school-based mentoring programme.\u00a0It supports those in or on the edges of the care system to realise their full potential through education. MCR recruits, trains and matches volunteer mentors with a young person. The MCR Mentoring Programme is now in all Glasgow secondary schools. How Do We Help? MCR Pathways supports young &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/bellahoustonacademy2019\/mcr-pathways\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MCR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7967,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-250","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/bellahoustonacademy2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/bellahoustonacademy2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/bellahoustonacademy2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/bellahoustonacademy2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/bellahoustonacademy2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/bellahoustonacademy2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4404,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/bellahoustonacademy2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions\/4404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/bellahoustonacademy2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}