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West Boldon Environmental Education Centre is the only facility of its kind in South Tyneside. The Centre is located within 13 hectares of land that is home to a number of species and habitats. A volunteer is required to assist centre staff in education work, preparing education resources for visiting groups and undertaking practical site management activities and species survey work. Volunteers can expect to gain experience of working with primary age children in an environmental education centre as well as undertaking practical site conservation tasks.
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Governance is the most important volunteering role in education and a full, diverse governing body can be a source of enormous strength to a school. As well as the satisfaction of knowing they are making a real difference, our volunteers use and improve a range of highly transferable skills, work with new people and have the opportunity to apply their knowledge and experience in a new environment.
A school’s governing body is responsible for raising school standards through the following key roles:
* Setting strategic direction
* Promoting high standards of education and achievement
* Monitoring and evaluating school performance
* Budgetary allocation and control
The governing body supports school staff, enabling them to provide the best possible standards of education and helps children throughout the school realise their aspirations and expectations.
An effective governing body is a source of enormous strength to a school and is increasingly important in helping to deal with new major issues such as the Every Child Matters agenda and the extended schools programme (e.g. establishing before- and after- school clubs to help support parents and families), the pace and type of change, the implications of faith, race and language and the influence of new technology.
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This project is based within a school that has pupils aged from 11 - 16 years old. They are currently part of an Aimhigher pilot scheme, which helps to support young people so that they can achieve their full potential.
Volunteers will be required to act as mentors to 14 and 15 year old pupils, helping them and supporting their progression into Higher Education. Volunteering in a group with 3 or 4 pupils, the role will involve assisting with a portfolio of work that pupils are required to complete including the advantages and disadvantages of living at home or in University accommodation, general student life, the costs and other associated information.
Volunteers must have good organisation skills, be able to help pupils with presentations, have good listening skills, be able to provide feedback to young people and have the confidence to work in a group or alone.
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Based
in Sunderland, the aim of this project is to improve achievement
in young people aged 5-18 years old. Volunteers can choose
to become involved in a wide range of activities including
Drama, Reading, Maths, English, Sports Activities, Art, Music
and many more. The activities take place out of school hours
at Breakfast, Lunch, After School, Weekends and Holidays.
Volunteers are matched with a specific school determined by
the age of pupils, time of day and activity they want to volunteer
with.
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The childcare centre provides care and education to children aged from birth to twelve years old to meet the childcare needs of parents who may be University students or staff and members of the local community. Volunteers are required for a number of voluntary opportunities which include volunteering at the parent and toddler group, volunteering at the Groovy Kids Club Holiday Playschemes and helping with various activities including drama, dance and computing. Volunteers can expect to gain experience and knowledge related to working in a childcare environment
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Playing for Success Volunteers
Would you like to work in a Football Club?
Would you like to go to all the places in a football stadium members of the public do not see, such as the players changing rooms, media lounge and tunnel leading out onto the pitch?
If you would, then come and volunteer as a mentor here at the Study Support Centre at Sunderland Football Club. Our mentors work with groups of children to help improve their literacy and numeracy skills and we use the environment of the Stadium of Light to help achieve this. We also have state of the art ICT equipment in our Study Support Centre where we undertake our classroom activities. Previous mentors inform us they really enjoyed their placements at Sunderland Football Club and we look forward to working with you when you are here.
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Business Adviser/Facilitator
Young Enterprise aim to inspire and equip young people to learn and succeed through enterprise, and in doing so increase the positive attitude of young people. Through working with the business community our achievers have the opportunity to gain personal experience of how business works, understand the role it plays in employment and creating prosperity and be inspired to improve their own prospects and the competitiveness of the UK.
Young Enterprise offers a series of different programmes for young people aged 4 – 25.
As a volunteer your role would be to facilitate our programmes in partnership with the class teacher. To act as a role model and to bring the programmes to life with your knowledge and experience.
Volunteers can also gain personal development and improved presentation, management and interpersonal skills.
Full training is given to all volunteers before taking a class. This training lasts as long as needed until volunteers are full comfortable and clear about what is expected.
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