Young Wolves need tutors

A TUTORING group at Torquay Community House is hoping to find a few extra tutors so it can keep running free sessions throughout the year.

Young Wolves provides tutoring to grade 5 and 6 pupils from Torquay and surrounds on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

The program provides a weekly free 40-minute one-on-one session on literacy and numeracy for pupils who need extra help in learning the core concepts.

Tutoring is provided by volunteers, many of which are former teachers or teaching students, but tutor Dick Danckert said the tutors included former solicitors, engineers, and firefighters.

“We think just a couple more will be good.” Young Wolves was started in 2012 by Mark Tonzing, a local resident who was volunteering in the house at the time. The program was driven by inquiries from parents concerned that their children were going to enter secondary school behind in the basics.

In its first five months, the program grew to five tutors and 12 children, and has since expanded to tutoring more than 30 children in 2018.

Funding from the Lodge of the Great Ocean Road and Torquay Community Enterprise has helped expand the tutors’ resource materials.

Torquay Community House is a “child safe zone”, so all tutors must pass police and Working With Children checks and comply with the house’s child-safe policy.

For more information on volunteering as a tutor, or to book a child into the program, head to torquaycommunityhouse.com.au, phone 5261 2583 or 0400 579 823.