SOCIETY: CHARITY JOHN S.
moved to year 4, where we had fun helping out with numeracy and science – leading a stretch and challenge group on fractions, helping the class to make their own analogue clock faces from a paper plate, strips of card and a paper fastener, and working with the children to interpret their results from a science experiment on evaporation rates. This term, we will be splitting our time between year 2 and year 6, giving us the chance to help out with children across a wide range of ages. Our thanks go to all the staff at Redlands for accommodating us, to Mrs Hickman for providing us with the opportunity to volunteer and for coordinating the Future Stories program, and to all the children at Redlands for being such eager learners!
Since September, myself and five other year twelves have been volunteering weekly at Redlands Primary School, as part of Reading School’s Future Stories program. We started off in the Year 2 classroom, where the theme for the half-term was ‘pirates’ – we enjoyed helping out with the literacy sessions by leading guided reading, working one-to-one with students who needed more help with their writing tasks, and supervising group work to introduce the children to new grammar points such as contractions and using the apostrophe. After half term, we 22
