![]() ![]() “The best part in my opinion,” Mitchell commented, “was being able to run a program despite COVID meaning that the Rural Program could not go ahead. Seventy-one TLG tutors volunteered their time to write letters back and forth to primary school students, fostering relationships from hundreds of kilometres away. ![]() By maintaining and building these relationships with the students, we are hoping that our next Rural Program will be even better.” “Although the program was targeted to help students with reading and writing activities, we also wanted to keep our ongoing connection with the students and the schools to continue our mission. ![]() In order to give it a broader application, the program was changed to be more general, and focus on writing and keeping up connections with some of the students that TLG had met the semester before.” When asked what inspired the TLG team to trial the new approach, one of the program organisers, Mitchell Hughes-Owen commented, “the original idea came from the eMentor team when they implemented a pen pals program to expand their mentoring sessions. The program was created to help the improvement of literacy and communication skills, and adapt TLG’s mission to bridge the learning gap between urban, and rural and remote students, despite the unprecedented circumstances.įacing COVID-19 travel restrictions, TLG was unable to run their Winter Rural Program, in which groups of volunteers visit primary schools in remote towns across Western Australia, tutoring students in a variety of STEAM subjects and promoting an enthusiasm for learning. Four different schools and more than a hundred students from across rural WA were involved in this project. Earlier this year, in response to COVID-19, Teach Learn Grow launched a new Pen Pals initiative to keep in contact with the students at partnered schools. ![]()
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