Our Purpose

The Shine Centre aims to provide historically disadvantaged learners at primary school level with educational support. It is a voluntary project, run at the Observatory junior school, to help children who are struggling with reading and literacy. Volunteers (or learning partners) are paired with individual children to help with their reading. They spend at least an hour a week with a child, reading in pairs and playing games such as word association to help with their literacy. This enables the learner to receive individual attention from an adult who also acts as a role model.