Residential mentoring

Our mentors travel the world with families, providing academic and pastoral support to students in their own homes.

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Why residential mentoring

Our mentors have inspired students to success in every corner of the world, no matter where they live.

Targeted tuition

Specific tuition for relevant subjects ensures each student prepares well over the holidays.

Varied support

Our mentors can do anything from exam prep to being a homework buddy or running fun educational activities.

Pastoral and academic

Having a mentor reduces pressure on parents to oversee their child’ studies enabling a stress-free holiday.

How it works

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Step 1

Find the perfect mentor

We’ll suggest a mentor pairing based on relevant experiences, backgrounds and matching interests. Our mentors span a huge range of backgrounds including former and current teachers, educational psychologists and freelance creatives.

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Step 2

Start residential

Mentors provide up to five hours of concentrated support per day, from subject-specific tuition to revision technique and educational activities.

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Step 3

Parent check in

Regular check-ins between office team and parent to ensure the residential is progressing well and remains adaptable to expectations.

What does residential mentoring look like?

Read about a day-in-the-life below

Case study

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Elizabeth and Isla

Mentoring on the high seas

A family was embarking on a journey around the world and wanted a mentor to join them to support their 10-year-old daughter. Enough structure to the day to keep up with the schoolwork given, but enough flexibility to melt into the eco-system of a day on a boat. Somebody the family would get on with, who’d muck in and balance the role between family and support. We wanted to tailor-make a curriculum that would tie into the places the family were set to visit. 

Step forward Elizabeth: a recent classics graduate at Cambridge, learning assistant teacher at Thomas’s Clapham and Masters’ student in Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature. A value-add to the dream holiday, and an assurance that when she went back to school, she was in a better position than when she’d left.

All part of the Oppidan x Original Travel partnership. 

What parents say

Frequently asked questions

  • Residentials are most suitable for children aged 7+.

  • Mentors can provide up to five hours of mentoring and tuition a day.

    Childcare responsibilities are additional to this and treated separately.

  • Our residential approach has been developed in collaboration with our partners - the world’s leading senior schools. 

  • Mentors follow all exam guides or Oppidan handbook with sessions covering each area of that student’s educational needs.

  • Wherever your family are spending the holiday out mentors can support your children. Mentor accommodation and travel is organised and covered by the family. 

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Speak to the team about residential mentoring

Fill out the short form and one of our client managers will be in touch to discuss how best to support your child.