Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Walk and picnic on Saturday

Hi everyone,

An early missive this week as we've decided we need to get Common Conversation out of the Common Place next week. The plan is to meet at Parkinson Steps at the University at 1pm on Saturday, go for a stroll down the Meanwood Valley Trail, then have a picnic in Meanwood Park and play some outdoor games, rounders, frisbee, football ect. We had a pretty low turnout on Saturday due to the Hebden Bridge event (and also no doubt to the good weather), so we need to get the message to as many students as possible over the week. Please pass it on.

Amanda, Tom and I are organising some basic food, but if other volunteers could bring contributions that would be great. We're bringing a big cous-cous dish, fruit, some crisps and some drinks, and cups and plates and all that malarkey. If everyone could bring one other thing it would be really helpful!

Also, does anyone have a rounders bat?

Hope we'll still get the usual turnout of volunteers, it's really important that the students get to chat with native speakers on this kind of event. I'm hoping the weather will be good again and we can all blow away the winter cobwebs a bit!

Looking forward to seeing you all on Sat.

Liv
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Volunteer Roles

This is to give you an idea of what the different volunteer roles involve (but these are by no means set in stone!)

Advanced class planner/teacher:

Intermediate class planner/teacher:

Beginners class planner/teacher:

Teaching assistants:

Key holder opening up: You need a key for the Common Place. You need to arrive by 12pm and unlock the front doors and the back fire exit. Maybe also be the one to make sure there is veg or go to the market if there isn't?

Key holder closing: Make sure all the washing up is done, that chairs and tables are arranged neatly, that all resources from the lesson are put away, that everything is switched off and there is no one left in the building. Then lock up. Often there might be another group using the building afterwards so just make sure they have a key to close after themselves etc.

Childcare volunteer: Take care of the kids, play games
with them or make sure they're happy on the computers. Try to keep them busy and not bothering their parents!