ABSTRACT
The term "peer partnership" gives equal weighting to the peer and the partner. Both give and both receive, with valuable lessons learnt. Peer partnership is for all students, and each should be given the opportunity to develop the potential he or she possesses. Schools must encourage student cooperation and peer partnership so that the healthy development of children and ultimately society may be fostered. The effectiveness and beauty of the peer partnership programme at Hampstead School is that both the tutor and the tutee benefit from the experience. In a world full of ever-increasing demands, pressures, insecurities and fears, students have to cope with many issues such as drugs, violence, abuse, divorce, single parent families, lack of money, unemployment. Peer partnership evolved out of a crisis which Hampstead School was faced with in 1989. The turmoil and strife in the world had led children to flee from their countries, many of them unaccompanied minors.
