Individual support
Mentoring is an internal provision for individual students at Haarlem College who require more support than their mentor can provide. This can include additional support with academic skills, their home situation, medical grounds, or social-emotional issues.
Pupils will be guided by a trajectory counsellor. This can be a short-term guidance trajectory (6 to 8 weeks with possible extension) or a long-term guidance trajectory (as indicated). These pupils have not yet been referred to another school.
Reference
Referrals are always made through the care coordinator. The mentor informs their team leader that a pupil requires additional support. The mentor, in consultation with parents and the pupil, draws up an Educational Perspective Plan (OPP) which describes the additional support needs and the support goals. The team leader then discusses the support goals with the care coordinator in the Internal Care Meeting (IZO). Together, they decide whether the support facilitator can offer the right assistance. The support facilitator will then invite the mentor, pupil and parents to discuss the support process and make arrangements.
Route group
In 2017, we started a support group to prevent pupils from being sent home. The support group is a provision where pupils receive their education in a group setting outside of their own classroom. It concerns pupils who are temporarily unable or unwilling to be in their own class. Some pupils are awaiting a place at another school or have a modified educational programme, for example, for medical reasons. The support group can be offered in combination with individual guidance.