Student Mediators

Mediators are students who have been chosen from each House by their Housemaster or Housemistress. Their role is to offer a sounding board to all students whatever their age in the School who would like to talk.

Mediators have received formal training in listening skills and they will hopefully be able to help, and if necessary, find the right adult with whom problems can be shared and appropriate support received. They have a genuine care for others. The staff responsible for their training are the School Therapist and 2nd Deputy Head. During training, students are asked to reflect on the following questions:

What are your rights as students at King’s?

What is a mediator’s responsibility?

How can we enable students at King’s to fulfil their rights?

What qualities/skills are needed to be a mediator?

How can mediators gain the trust of students in their House?

What should students do with the information they are told?

Each student brings personal experiences to the role: some have overcome leaving home to board and some have travelled across the world away from their families to fulfil their academic education in a foreign language. Others have suffered bullying at previous schools and overcome such issues. Many have just loved their life at King's and want others to experience similar joys during their time at the school.

They will be easily recognised as their names are displayed in each boarding house and they introduce themselves in assembly at the start of the academic year.