Saturday Morning Butterfly Literacy School
We run reading and writing improvement classes for children aged 5 to 11 at Saturday morning schools during term time. These are usually held in community centres, schools and other suitable venues across London.
We use the excellent structured phonics based Butterfly Book by Irina Tyk. We place the children in classes according to their reading ages. For reading ages eight plus, we use the Butterfly grammar and comprehension books. Our volunteers use 'direct teaching' and carefully researched, proven effective whole-class teaching methods. Tailored training and ongoing support for volunteer classroom assistants is provided.
All of our volunteers aged 16 years and over, working regularly directly with children, are enhanced DBS checked.
General Volunteering Opportunities
We are continually researching and developing: tailored tuition, classes, workshops, mentoring, training, and other services supporting disadvantaged children and their families.
We are expanding our work in and around deprived parts of West and North-West London. We're always on the look out for volunteers, consultants, tutors and experts to help us.
We need dedicated, passionate volunteers to help with fundraising, surveys, research, I.T. support, administration etc. If any of these opportunities interest you, please click the blue Volunteering Form button below to get in touch with us.
