Life Skills Workshop Assistant - Family life year 2 (age 6-7)

As a volunteer, you will be assisting a Primary Enterprise World Manager with the delivery of fun interactive workshops developing the children's life skills. The workshops will last for 1 day so timings you would expect to be at the school are 8.30 am - 3.00pm.

We look at the importance of family life and identify different families and look at their needs and wants and how to achieve them.

Pupils are introduced to budgeting and savings and where to keep money safe

“Great interactive activities that were well paced and pitched at the appropriate level. Money activities got children thinking about keeping money safe and paying for items which children find difficult to understand. Activities were useful to develop thinking skills” –Jackie Needham. Dame Allan’s Junior School Newcastle

The children all get a workbook to complete on the day.

As a volunteer you will work with a group of 5 or 6 children, so we start off by looking at what a family is, introduce your family and then the children get to draw their family. (Understanding their stick men drawings requires certain skills!!!)

Then I introduce the children to 6 families, and we look at jobs of the family members. We then play a guess who game which is a bit like catchphrase where they must answer a question to remove a square on the board and try and guess who is behind it.

The children take turns to pretend they are the person behind the squares, and they answer the questions.

We then look at Needs and wants and help them understand the difference, so we play a stand-up sit - down quiz looking at 10 pictures.

Then one of the families is going to Scotland camping in the middle of nowhere. Have you been camping? If so, please share with them. They must circle 5 things that the family need to survive their camping trips.

Understanding that there is no electricity, and no mobile signal is interesting.

We then see what the class have decided are the top 5.

The next session looks at one of the children from the families is having a birthday, so he gets £5.00 we look at what to do with his money apart from spending it!!!!

Saving—what are you saving for if anything? giving money to charity– Have you donated to any charities?

Then we look at options for a new bike as the child wants a bike but can’t afford it so how can he get money? Doing Chores!!!!! That’s an interesting one. Then we look at saving and we play the “where to keep money safe” which is a card game where you have 2 headers, and you must put the correct pictures under the correct header.

They are then designing money boxes. Did you have a money box? What was it like?

We then introduce them to map-reading, and they must allocate buildings on a map on an interactive board at the front and then some family members require certain items so where would they get say a meal out?

That’s the morning over!

In the afternoon we are going to raise some money for the elderly by having a teddy bears picnic. So first a story is told of how the children from the families are helping the elderly in the community by having a teddy bears picnic at their school.

The children in the class are going to help raise spending money for the elderly couple by colouring in teddy bears, cutting them out (bearing in mind they are 6) and then sticking them on a poster.

We want good quality teddy bears so if they are not, we send them back to try a bit harder.

For every good quality one they do they put a coin in the jar on the screen.

Aim of the game is to educate them about business but also to work as a team and resilience to keep trying

SCHOOLS AND DATES ARE PRESET AND YOU WILL BE INFORMED AS YOU SIGN UP

Skills

  • You do not need any specific skills or experience but it may help if you have worked with children before but not essential
  • Some schools insist on a criminal records check so this will be needed which Primary Enterprise World will do if you don't currently have one in place

Details

  • Accessibility
  • Age restrictions
    over 18's
  • DBS check required
  • Equal Opportunities Policy
  • Expenses reimbursed
    Not at present
  • Health and Safety Policy
  • Ongoing support
  • Training provided
  • Volunteer induction
  • Volunteer Policy

When can I volunteer?

Start Date: 18/09/2023

End Date: 06/12/2023

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