Employers
Small, medium and large sized organisations are all welcome to
take part in Number Partners, whether from the private or public
sectors. Everyone can contribute and make a difference!
Depending on the structure of your organisation and the scale of
the commitment you can offer, several different parties might be
involved. Senior management might
need to approve and champion participation in the programme,
identifying likely benefits and objectives for employees. A volunteer coordinator
may need to take responsibility for the organisation and smooth
running of the programme. Individual employees will need to sign up
as volunteers, and, of course,
volunteers need to be equipped, trained and police or criminal record
checked before beginning.
Number Partners in 10 easy steps!
- Register
for the programme on this site.
- Find a local school to partner. You may want to
ask employees if they have links with a school.There may be a
school close to your location or you may have been contacted by a
school. Alternatively, you may wish to consult a broker. Further advise can be
found on the Employers' Guide to employer engagement in
education or the businessinschools site.
- Identify a volunteer coordinator
who will recruit volunteers to register individually on this
site.
- Volunteers
complete the online training and assessment on this
site, as well as police
checks.
- Volunteer coordinators ensure that volunteers have their Number
Partners certificates and police or criminal record check
documentation in preparation for school visits.
- School and Volunteer coordinator agree arrangements for the
programme such as time, duration, number of volunteers, dates for
review and games required.
- School coordinator
selects appropriate students.
- Volunteers have an induction with school staff (eg, the
numeracy coordinator, a particular class teacher or the
headteacher) and students as an introduction to the school and its
aims.
- Volunteers go into schools at an agreed time once a week to
work with an assigned group of two or three students each.
- Coordinators check the scheme is running smoothly, arrange a
review, collect and, if requested by the Number Partners
Consortium, help in the evaluation of the programme. Volunteer
and school coordinators may also wish to include employer or school
level evaluations in their own approaches.
Further advise can be found on the Employers'
Guide to employer engagement in education. This guide has been
designed to help employers of all sizes get more involved with
schools and colleges.
You can also contact us by emailing the administrator at
info@numberpartners.org if you have any questions regarding the
programme.