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I have tried my best to engage with 1st years in the Print room as they began their rotations and was interested in their work and let them know where I am and my email if ever they wish to chat or for any help - so far haven't had any personal emails though.

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I have attended two arranged sessions where they (first years) can stay behind for an hour and ask us questions and felt like the students appreciated our help, we have another one coming up In a couple of weeks.

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I'm a student mentor on the Fine Art course. I have actually only taken part in one student mentor activity which was helping students with their portfolios and practical pages by showing examples and offering our own advice. The activity really helped.

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I feel as a group of mentors we could improve on helping more as a team than 1-1 so I have suggested we put to action a Facebook group and share it with the first years in the next mentor session as well as emailing it out to Fo and Angharad for them to send over to all the first years so they are more aware we are here to help.

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Although I feel I have had an impact upon the students who have been brave enough to approach me, the idea of a 'mentor' seems lost within the course and this could be aided by perhaps having a poster on the photography notice board naming the students who are mentors, regularly reminding them that we are there.

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As I am a student course rep as well as a mentor I have taken the time post meetings and feedback to go through positive and negative feedback the first years gave to see if there is anything I could do to help them - for example I found out in our most recent meeting the 1st years are struggling with their DCC work so I am going to take my DCC folder from 1st year and my current folder of work to the next mentor drop in.

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We are currently preparing for the second year choice showcase where myself and other 2nd year mentors will present our work to first years to help them make decisions about specialising.

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We have had quite a few drop in sessions for the first years where we have gone through their work with them and shown them our own work progression from last year and also projects we are currently working on to help boost their confidence and enthusiasm.

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Most of the mentor work that I have managed to do has been informal and has consisted of helping students with questions and work based problems. However, since the beginning week when we got introduced to the first year photography students, there has been no formal meetings or engagements set up by the tutors which I feel is a missed opportunity.

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We've been offering support sessions and advice for each of the writing tasks the first year students have been tasked with. We've had varied response/attendance, but the overall feedback has been that the sessions are of use and are helpful to see our examples of writing, so we plan to continue doing these.

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The role itself is relatively unknown; students ask me for advice because I am frequently present in the building. The role has involved assisting on open days, the odd bit of tech assistance for people at various levels in the building, etc.

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We set up a Facebook page for all the 1st year FM students to join, so they are able to ask any questions.

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Help with Software: photography
Help with NOW navigation
Fied in with curriculum ? Fine art
Building tours - Most courses in Welcome week

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Generally we are only involved in tutorials with the first years from time to time. The tutors don't tell us when to come in so we just do it when we can.