Volunteering at Kingsley.

Kingsley Primary wants to support both our community and other college/ university students  in their lifelong learning, and commitment to becoming part of the Teaching and Learning profession. Our ‘Kingsley Aspire’ project sits alongside this.

Having volunteers can bring a lot to the workplace, but it is also a significant workload and commitment for the staff who are supporting/ coaching and managing this. Therefore, we have to plan our placements carefully. They will usually be booked several months in advance so that all paperwork/ risk assessments/ safeguarding information can be completed prior to starting and so that workload can be managed

This means we offer planned opportunities for the following on a volunteer basis:

Aspiring Undergraduate Teachers

We work in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University  (Via Matthew Arnold Teach First), and Liverpool Hope University to coach and mentor undergraduate students attached to these institutions. Placements are allocated via our staff student mentors who liaise with university staff.

Aspiring 6^th Form or y 11 Students

Pupils in 6^th form , or y11 may approach us:

• Via Kingsley Aspire programme
• Via an application letter
• For short term voluntary work experience placements.

If you are interested please email the school office  and express your interest via a standard application letter. We get a lot of requests, so you will need to take this application seriously and convince us that you are really interested in a placement!

Aspiring Teaching Assistants/ NVQ students.

This is the group from whom we have most requests for places . We can have several requests a week, although  clearly we can not accommodate everyone. Whilst we want to support those entering the profession, we have to set limits and certain criteria before we accept anyone. Unfortunately, we often have to disappoint volunteers who don't meet the criteria below:

To volunteer in a teaching or learning capacity, ie in the classroom you must:

1. Have GCSE English and Maths to at least grade 5  or an equivalent gained in the UK  (for example level 3 English access qualification or level 2 functional skills in English / maths, N.B. level 2  standard, not entry level.) 
2. Have excellent spoken and written English (90%+ of our pupils speak English as an additional language and all adults who work with them must be able to model high standards of spoken and written English at all times)
3. Be attached to a college so that a tutor is overseeing your assessment and placement.
4. Provide 2 written references which meet our criteria . You should provide the email addresses of these referees for us to contact.

We take safeguarding extremely seriously and all volunteers must have an acceptable up to date dbs and comply with all school policies and  requirements of section 1 of keeping Children Safe In Education. No adult volunteer will be allowed to work in our school unless these requirements are met.

If you are interested email Kingsley-ao@kingsley.liverpool.sch with your full letter of application for our consideration in the first instance. If we have spaces, we will contact you for documents/ references etc. Meeting the criteria outlined above does not necessarily guarantee a place will be offered. 

Please note we will NOT accept placement confirmation letters from a third party.