3. 
Give back to our community
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Unite 2 sections of our community and
strengthen the bond between the two
› Church
› Learning Centre

4. 
Why do we need a community?
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How & why do we get disconnected?
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How can we get involved in our local
community?

6. 
Being active in your local community is an essential part of
living a fulfilling life.
Humans by nature are social beings - it's a universal law
that no one can escape. We need to be around other
people for us to feel happy, secure and safe. Hanging out
with friends helps, but that isn't quite enough. For us to truly
thrive, we need to be active in our local community.
Jay Yarbrough

7. Supplementary schools share a number of characteristics:
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They offer a range of learning opportunities, including national
curriculum subjects (English, maths, science and others), religious
studies, mother-tongue classes, cultural studies and a range of extra
activities, such as sport, music, dance and drama.
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They run throughout the week in the evenings, or at weekends.
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They are set up by local community groups.
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They are voluntary organisations. Very often they rely almost
exclusively on volunteers.
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They operate from a variety of venues: community centres, youth
clubs, places of worship, mainstream schools and other places.

8. The mainstream sector was not meeting the needs of the children and
our community felt they could do it, and they knew what the children's
needs were … Children who were being put in lower streams in school
were not having their achievements or talents recognized, and also I
think there was a lack of understanding/awareness of cultural
background. That’s the sort of thing that people in the community were
saying:
‘Our children are underachieving or they are being excluded from school or they are
not getting the career choices open to them. We know from our experience back in
the Caribbean or [from] our understanding of our children, we know what they can
achieve, can you do something?’

9. 
So it was really answering the pleas of the community that
brought [this school] into being. And actually we have
created the model for what good community support is I
think. I don't say ‘we’ as this particular school; I think the
supplementary school movement was very much the
community taking ownership and saying: ‘No’ [to
underachievement].

10. Thoughts….

11. 
We will look to begin work ASAP

Saturday afternoon Supplementary
school
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Asking for nothing other than as much of
you as you can give

12. 
If you would like to talk to me regarding
anything we went through this evening,
or any ideas moving forward please get
in contact as soon as possible.
Festus – 07534803117
festus.olubayo@live.co.uk