What we do

Every Saturday our dedicated volunteer tutors guide a group of students in Grade 1 with individualised, educational activities. It is an early intervention program to develop each child's literacy and numeracy skills to encourage life-long learning.

A typical session might consist of the following:

• Group reading games to practise phonemic awareness. This means guiding our young students to break each word apart into its individual sounds and then blending them together to form the whole word.

• Individual reading with each child using Little Learners Love Literacy books. Each student is given dedicated reading time with a tutor so they can practise their fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.

• Story time. Students are read to using one of the many wonderful books at the Pakenham library from which we are based.

• Group maths activities. All students are engaged in an assortment of maths activities that focus on a wide range of maths skills that are outlined in the Victorian curriculum. These include counting to and from 100, skip counting, place value, addition, subtraction, measurement and probability.   

For all enquiries regarding our programs, please feel free to contact us.