St. John's R.C. Primary School, Benchill (Wythenshawe)

    Address: Ss. John Fisher and Thomas More R.C. Primary School, Woodhouse Lane Benchill M22 9NW. (Click here for more about St John's and a Google Map)

    We also run a separate language mentor project at St John's (the St John's Language Mentor project) for volunteers who have a second language, viz. Swaheli (1) , Portuguese (2), French (1), Polish (3) and Lithuanian (3). Click here if you would like more details.

    For more details about the more general mentoring with less of an academic or language focus (the St John's ReachOut! Club) click here.

    St John's ReachOut! SHINE Club

    Maths support

    English support

    Project Summary: The aim of the St John's SHINE Club is to provide young people in year 6 with specialised and focused support mainly in their academic Maths and English work but also in their general personal development.

    As a SHINE Mentor you will support your mentee in EITHER Maths OR English each week. Maths mentors will work for 1 hour each week with one mentee helping them with their Maths. You will have the same mentees each week. English mentors will do the same but helping their mentee with their English. You will work for 20 sessions during the Academic year.

    For more details about our ReachOut! SHINE Club projects please visit our Manchester projects page; for specific details about the ReachOut! SHINE Club at St John's please read on.

  • Time: Fridays from 10.30 am to 12-30 pm (including transport time)
  • Duration: mid-October to mid-May
  • Location: Ss. John Fisher and Thomas More R.C. Primary School, Woodhouse Lane Benchill M22 9NW.
  • Age of mentees: 10/11 (Yr 6)
  • Volunteers required: 4 mentors to help with English and 5 to help with Maths
  • Transport is provided from the ReachOut! office.

    • Criteria for joining this project: You will need to:

  • Be able to commit to attending 95% of sessions or more
  • Be qualified to GCSE "A Level" (or your local equivalent if you are from outside the UK) in either Maths or English depending on which subject you want to mentor in.
  • Register as a mentor
  • Complete our bespoke training course. The training for the SHINE Club at St John's took place on MONDAY 10th OCTOBER 2011 from 5-30 pm until about 9.00 pm and was provided by English and Maths teachers from St John's and our own trainers. (for more details on training use the link on the sidebar menu to the left)
  • Satisfy Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) Disclosure criteria (for more details on the CRB process use the link on the sidebar menu to the left)
  • Sign up to the ReachOut! Mentoring Agreement* (when you register)

    • If you wish to volunteer for this project, please register as a mentor now!

    *You will need to have read our Mission Statement which sets out our overall objectives and the values which are fundamental to the project, and the relevant ReachOut! policies and procedures. You will declare that you have read all these documents.