Training for pupil champions

You will need to provide ongoing training and support to your pupil wellbeing champions, but at the start of the programme there will need to be a concentrated effort on ensuring the pupils have the necessary skills, knowledge and confidence. Training the student champions is important so that they feel confident in their role and so that they can act appropriately. Compass BUZZ have developed a training workshop for the coordinator to deliver in school to their own champions which aims to give them a basic understanding of their role, communication and listening skills, wellbeing and a healthy lifestyle. An outline of this training will have been demonstrated to a representative from your school via a ‘Train the Trainer’ model, for your school to independently deliver to your champions. Extra training may be necessary for your champions which may also depend on local context and issues that are particular to your school community, but the Compass BUZZ training workshop should give you a good starting point.

Compass BUZZ recommend that the school member of staff who delivers the training to the pupils has done Compass BUZZ training themselves (levels 1, 2 and 3). This is to ensure that they have a good understanding of relevant issues and skills and can best advise and support the champions in their duties.

We recommend the number of attendees at your pupil training workshop is limited to between 12-15. This is to ensure that you can encourage group discussion, have time to develop the skills of each attendee, answer questions, and so that you can provide support if needed.

Training the pupil champions is important so that they feel confident in their role

Please refer to the Compass BUZZ pupil wellbeing champion training package for more information.

Key questions:

• Who will deliver your training? • When and where? • Is there any additional training you would like to look into?