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Teachers/Teaching Assistants wanted to work on Puzzle Club

We are looking for teachers (qualified or in training) or teaching assistants to run a daily remote puzzle club operating by email exchange between July and August 2024

Puzzle Club is for disadvantaged learners to encourage thinking skills and to improve basic English and Maths in order to help them to catch up on learning during the summer holidays. 

The puzzles and answers are provided.  At the end of the club, you will need to tot up the scores for attendance and success and when ‘nudges’ were required and feedback a couple of sentences about each child for their teacher. 

Each tutor has 10 children to respond to over 14 consecutive days, to issue daily puzzles and to give nudges to help them solve them when they get stuck. You will also identify children for rewards.

The club has now run twice successfully. It was very popular with children and parents. We recruit disadvantaged children who are trailing behind at school, but this year we are keen to introduce one small group for more able children, one for trailing primary pupils and one for secondary pupils.

To do this you need:

  • To be available for 14 consecutive days in July and August.
  • It will take around 2.5 hours a day of your time, preferably in the morning.
  • Pay – £25 per hour, so around £875 per club. Further hours are paid to attend 2 hours briefing/training and for managing any challenges in setting up communications (many children work on the phone).

Click here for a quick PowerPoint video introduction to the Puzzle Club scheme.

To find out more please call Kevin Delf on 01483 487892.

Can you help? Use Your Skills to be a Trustee with SLLP

Everyone has skills, and we need yours to help us oversee an inspiring local charity which works with disadvantaged people to enrich their lives and to make them more employable.

The Surrey Lifelong Learning Partnership offers work experience, training and careers advice. Each year, we help up to 800 people from 14 to 50+ to reach their goals.  And we do this in the communities where these people live.

One of our best-known projects is refurbishing bikes as a not-for-profit business using abandoned cycles, and another is creating teams to refresh gardens.  We have had fantastic success helping people onto a career path, and our work has been visited and praised by HRH Prince Edward Duke of Edinburgh.

Now we need more trustees to watch over and steer the work, alongside the Board and the Chief Executive.  We are a friendly team with a range of existing skills but we’d love to have more. In particular, we’re keen to meet people with financial or legal experience, or who understand marketing, or who are able to work across a range of partners, or perhaps have had contact with older learners or school-age learners.

Being a trustee is a volunteer role, though we can provide expenses, and it’s a great way of giving something back to the community.  We ask for 4 meetings a year as a minimum commitment, but most of us are inspired to do more once we get involved.

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN JOINING OUR TRUSTEES?

We’d love to talk to you.

Please call Kevin Delf on 01483 487892 for a chat.

 

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