Bespoke interventions
We have a series of interventions available to Secondary Schools that volunteers can sign up to participate in.
Some of these are for groups of volunteers working together, some are for individuals who want to start with a one-off experience. Requests from schools come in throughout the school year and we operate responsively to these. We keep a database of willing volunteers and would contact you as and when requests come in.
Interventions are managed by Ablaze and any training, briefing and safeguarding processes involved will be delivered by us.
Mock interviews
We recruit a group of volunteers to go to the school and carry out a series of mock interviews with students. The school chooses the year group they want to target and the focus of the interviews and we will provide you with a briefing and bespoke question sheets for the day.
“My teaching and leadership skills have definitely improved during the course of program, and these skills will definitely benefit me in the long run.” Airbus Flying Challenge Mentor
Career events
We source businesses from specific sectors to take part in a career fair at a school. We are always looking for people from a range of sectors to come and talk to students about their business.
Breaking limits
This programme consists of 5 weekly talks by inspirational speakers for a group or class of students. Each speaker has an interesting and inspirational story to tell about their career journey and their own experiences of school and life. Individual volunteers are recruited to deliver one of the 5 sessions.
Breaking limits is aimed at young people who are disengaged or lacking in aspiration at school. It provides them with the opportunity to challenge their own assumptions about themselves, to increase their confidence and self-esteem and to view their future and their career opportunities more positively.
Bookworms
Book Worms is a collaborative reading experience for year 7 and 8 students who are behind the expected reading level or who demonstrate a reluctance to engage at school which aims to
- improve existing reading skills, particularly comprehension and retrieval
- increase confidence
- build reading pleasure
This is a reading intervention for onward progression from primary school. The books are chosen in consultation with the school. Students will be given the books to keep to support the promotion of reading in their home and family setting.
The Bookworm project comprises of a block of sessions lasting one term. In these weekly sessions the students work in small groups with trained mentors. The activities are designed to enable students to use and improve comprehension and retrieval skills, gain confidence in their reading ability and enjoy their experience with the book.
Ablaze would recruit and train a group of volunteers from your business to deliver this programme to a school.
“Not only does Bookworms enable our business to ‘put its name out there’ and advertise itself by working with the local communities, it also helps the people within the business develop new skills.” Bookworms Volunteer, Clarke Willmott
Employability workshops
We have a range of employability workshops available for students. These templates can be tailored to suit schools specific needs and businesses specific skills and sector knowledge. We would recruit a small group of volunteers to deliver a workshop on topics that include financial literacy, first impressions, interview techniques, cv success.
Contact us to find out more about how your business can get involved or if you are an individual how to sign up to our volunteer database.
Have a look at our evaluation to see how students benefit from these interventions.