A little bit of Grit
Welcome one and all!
We’re thrilled to welcome two brand new Programme Managers to the Grit team! Cathy brings vast experience from 20 or so years teaching in schools while Hayley has expertise from her years of working with vulnerable young people, most recently in London with children in care.
Next time Grit is in your neck of the woods, come and say hello to them!
“This is rare. I’ll take away a sense of being, a sense of belonging.”
Patrick did one of our Black Leadership Programmes at Loughborough University. This is what he had to say.
Grit in Press
Over the years Grit has delivered programmes for staff and for students at the University of Portsmouth. On the University’s ‘Education Matters’ blog series, Sherria Hoskins, Executive Dean of Science & Health (and member of the Grit Advisory Board), co-authors an article about the difference Grit has been making. Read what she had to say here.
“Grit has reframed the way I go into conversations and interactions.”
Sonia is an Achievement Analyst at Solent University where she works on supporting students to achieve and the University’s Access and Participation Plan. She is also Chair of the staff BME network. Sonia did a Grit programme for staff in July 2022.
"It was unexpected. Grit was much more about self-reflection than I had thought it would be. It gave me new perspective on my job, one I hadn’t considered before. I realised how I was always focused on own internal dialogue, how I wasn’t fully listening to people. Grit has reframed the way I go into conversations and interactions.
As an analyst I was spending my days looking at data and stats about attainment and continuation. But now I’m able to appreciate the bigger picture, take a rounded view about students and the issues they are struggling with. It makes the numbers and percentages mean so much more, gives me context so I can have a real understanding of what the data means at the human level.”
Volunteer Life Coaches wanted!
We are so excited to be back in London working in partnership with the Harrow Club (a charity running five fantastic youth clubs for young people locally) and two of their key partner secondary schools. And we're looking for volunteers to join the programme!
You should be based in west London and/or able to travel to North Kensington for training and to deliver the coaching. You’ll be passionate about making a difference with young people, about supporting young people to turn their lives around and really make the most of their education.
Does this sound like you?
Find out more at on the Harrow Club website and to register, contact grit@harrowclub.org. Closing date is the 20th February.
“It’s an experience that will stay with me for a very long time” Grit volunteer