Chances Mentoring

🎨 Unlocking creativity & confidence through our new Arts Award Curriculum for 2026–27

We believe creative expression is a powerful tool for personal growth and excited to be bringing this new offer to our curriculum for the coming year - tailored to support young people from Year 7 through Year 11!

The structured pathway allows young people to gain recognised qualifications while building vital life skills:

🌟 Discover & explore (Years 7–8): Active participation, creative exploration, and sharing achievements.

🥉 Bronze (Year 9): Developing artistic skills, exploring arts inspirations, and sharing expertise.

🥈 Silver (Year 10): Planning arts challenges and taking on leadership roles.

🥇 Gold (Year 11): Advanced creative practice, career development research and managing public projects.

Beyond the artwork, this curriculum builds resilience, communication, independence and career readiness. No matter a young person's starting point, we adapt activities to ensure everyone experiences success.

🔗 You can learn more about our curriculum on our website: https://www.chancesmentoring.com/our-curriculums/

🎓 Huge congratulations to Marcia on passing her Level 4 Diploma for School Business Managers!

Empowering our team with continuous professional development is at the heart of our culture. Investing in our people directly translates to providing our young people with the outstanding educational experiences they deserve.

Give Marcia a round of applause in the replies. 👏✨

👏 A huge congratulations to Hammad 👏

We are so proud to announce that Hammad has officially completed his Level 3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship! 🎉

🌟 Hammad is a valuable member of the Chances Mentoring team and seeing his hard work, dedication and growth pay off is fantastic. Thank you for everything you bring to our team and the young people we support!

Drop a comment below to help us celebrate Hammad’s achievement! 👇

☀️ Enjoying the warm weather? We want all our young people to stay safe.

Before lighting a BBQ or starting a fire - especially in the countryside - stop and think. Fires can spread fast and have devastating effects on our green spaces. 🌳🔥

Check out helpful summer safety tips from : https://manchesterfire.gov.uk/

⚽️ Sport is more than a game, it’s a pathway to positive change 🏏

For many pupils, mainstream education reaches a point where it no longer fits. That’s where a calm, structured and predictable environment makes all the difference.

At Chances Mentoring, we combine structured mentoring with Secondary Alternative Provision to help young people:
🔹 Rebuild self-confidence and resilience
🔹 Take responsibility for their choices
🔹 Improve attendance and classroom behaviour
🔹 Develop habits that get them back on track for learning

When pupils feel supported, real progress happens. 💪✨

🔗 Learn how we support young people to reset and succeed: https://www.chancesmentoring.com/secondary-ap/

⚠️ Do you know what your young person is up to during the school holidays when they’re out with their friends?

😔 In 2025, 202 people accidentally drowned.

Please speak with them about the dangers of open water – it could save their life ❤

Find out more about water safety on the GMFRS website 👉 https://www.manchesterfire.gov.uk/your-safety/campaigns/water-safety/

5️⃣ highlights from our Ofsted report

Back in March, Ofsted inspected our school and awarded us with a ‘Strong Standard’ for inclusion in our first ever inspection!

🙌 Inspectors rated our school at the ‘Expected Standard’ for achievement, behaviour and leadership, while confirming safeguarding requirements were met.

Here are 5 highlights from the report:

1️⃣ Leaders address gaps in pupils’ learning and ensure that teaching enables them to progress well through the intended curriculum. This is consistent across year groups and key stages.
2️⃣Pupils behave well across the school. Leaders have created an orderly environment that encourages pupils to be calm and respectful of others.
3️⃣Each pupil's individual character is nurtured well. Through activities such as charity work, visits to places of interest and engagement with visitors to the school, pupils gain a positive understanding of what it means to contribute to society.
4️⃣Pupils are well prepared socially, academically and in their personal development for their next steps in education, employment or training. For example, in the vocational subjects of construction and hair and beauty, pupils learn about the workplace.
5️⃣Pupils behave well across the school. Leaders have created an orderly environment that encourages pupils to be calm and respectful of others.

🔗Read the full Ofsted report on our website: https://www.chancesmentoring.com/news/chances-mentoring-earns-strong-standard-for-inclusion-in-first-ofsted-inspection/