Employers
Small, medium and large sized organisations are all welcome to
take part in Number Partners, whether from the private or public
sectors.
Depending on the structure of your organisation and the scale of
the commitment you can offer, several different parties might be
involved:
- Senior management - to approve and champion
participation in the programme
- A Volunteer Coordinator - to take
responsibility for the smooth running of the programme
- Individual employees - to sign up as
volunteers
Number Partners in 10 easy steps!
- The company registers for the programme on this
site.
- The company finds 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.
- The comapny identifies 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.