Opportunities

Trained Reading Helper

Volunteers will go into local partner primary schools and help children grow a love of reading. You need to be able to commit to going into school one afternoon a week, every week during the school term time. You will share stories and books with the same few children each week to help them become readers.  It needs to be the same afternoon each week during term time, which afternoon is flexible.  Role would be in one of our partner primary schools
 
As a charity will process the volunteers' DBS at no cost to the volunteer and Travel expenses up to 5 miles.
 

For more information email volunteering@onewalsall.org

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Coram Beanstalk

Coram Beanstalk believes life changes when you choose reading.

Coram Beanstalk is a national children's reading charity with over 50 years' experience in creating readers through our one-to-one, in-person reading support. We know, and evidence shows that when children not only can read but choose to read, it has a more profound impact on a child’s academic success than their socio-economic background. In addition, readers also benefit from improved well-being and better life chances.

To become a reader, children need to explore what reading means to them by sharing and talking about a wide variety of brilliant books. Through consistent time and attention, they can discover their reading identity.

Coram Beanstalk has the knowledge and experience to mobilise and equip communities to deliver help to children in schools who need extra support to become readers.

So, we enthuse and enable people to put best practice, based on half a century of experience and the latest evidence, into action:

  • Our volunteers – who provide consistent support to children who have fallen behind and need more intensive or longer-term help to change their attitude to reading and build their reading skills, ability and confidence.
  • School schemes and peer mentoring programmes – which bring the motivation of the wider school community, and of older students, to help ensure that children at risk of falling behind or becoming reluctant to read stay on track.
  • Professionals and wider community groups – who want to understand how a reading for pleasure approach can enhance their own practice.
  • Parents, grandparents and others who help children with their reading at home – who want to get even better at doing it.

And we do this from early years, through primary education and into early secondary, by helping children develop their key pre-reading skills, as they are learning to read and as they go on to become effective readers who, rather than disengaging because other uses of their time seem more attractive, continue to choose to read independently because they know it brings value to their lives.