Homework Club Volunteer

A group of volunteers called Friends of Fallowfield have come together to save Fallowfield Library from closing. City South Housing has offered Friends of Fallowfield support in order to transform the library into a community asset and a sustainable enterprise going forward. For volunteers this is an exciting time to get involved and be part of something new, which will become a vital community asset within Fallowfield. Main purpose – To help children and young people with their homework and support them in their learning Supporting and helping children and young people with their homework by:

• Offering one to one help in finding and using information
• both online and book resources
• Supporting young people to improve their literacy and numeracy skills
• Helping to make their learning exciting, relevant and fun
• Supporting young people in the use of ICT and educational web resources
•  Listening to children read and playing educational games

Some of the benefits are:

• Gain experience of teaching & educating
• Gain experience of working with young people on a one to one and group basis
• Valuable training and experience that can be included in CVs and job applications
• Improve self-esteem
• Enhance your communication and personal skills
• Be part of something worthwhile
• Out of pocket expenses paid
• Receive a reference
• Hopefully have fun Training
• A full volunteer induction will be given On-going support
• Further ad hoc training will be available that you could take advantage – to be discussed with the volunteer Coordinator.

Commitment Volunteers would be asked to support drop in sessions either during the late afternoon / early evening sessions and/or on Saturdays (depending on the sessions on offer) At this stage we are looking to run sessions mid week 3:30pm - 6pm (Tuesday and another day) and Saturdays 1pm - 4pm. Volunteers would only be expected to make one session per week.