Would a school be interested in a KS5 volunteer?

[cressetmama]

I'm old by classroom standards and didn't finish my PGCE until I was 55. Needless to say, there is no interest in my CV for paid work. I don't want to do supply, but would like to be useful generally. I actually prefer older students and would, I think, like to offer unpaid help in Y12 and 13 to students and teachers. I have QTS, now expiring, in secondary citizenship (no longer a mandatory subject). For enabling/accompanying trips or coaching with writing UCAS applications for example, how would your school view an approach?

In my professional career, I was a (very) successful business-to-business copywriter working with FTSE companies globally. I have a decent B. Sc Econ from an RG university and top grade A levels in English and History, and a less good one in French.

How would an SLT view my offer? Is it worth bothering to do?

Gin, round here, social science subjects seem to be not offered (especially in the independents/grammars, which stick to facilitating subjects). I developed a course in Citizen Journalism during the Arab Spring, as part of my PGCE KS5 element. I do hope the Media Studies mentor I did it for has found it useful.

I do supply and am just as much used at KS5 as 3 & 4 - most schools do not just leave the 6th formers to their own devices!
I am in my 50s - qualified aged 53 and work both through agencies and directly with schools. They see a previous career as a bonus, not a drawback. Get as much work as I want - could have 5 dsays a week, but chose to have a duvet day do other things on some days.

That's encouraging MrsG, I don't really have any desire to work full time as there are so many other things going on, but it would please me to work 0.4 or 0.5. There are few jobs going around here, currently only 37 jobs advertised in all of Devon and Cornwall, most of them in STEM subjects and a very long way away, at the extremities of the counties. One maternity leave job close at hand is the only thing that is suitable, but it's f/t from half term onwards.

Do you look at Devon jobs?

[http://www.devonjobs.gov.uk/SearchResults.aspx?pg=0&key=&dep=&post=&ocg=151&jtr=&msl=&loc=&vac=&app=&add=]

Thank you DaftVader, I quite like Tvsok, did my second PGCE placement there but not up for f/t commitment as it would b*gger the dog's walks!

I am really serious about not wanting a proper job. I'd happily do some lessons/a full day and a half of mentoring but I'm not up for all the admin and hassle of a career maybe 20 years ago. I am too old-- savvy. It doesn't mean I wouldn't take it seriously; I have a DS (16) and would get v stroppy if I thought teachers were not giving him a decent shake, or their full attention. What I would like to do is enabling things to work better/happen by offering to help with the bits and pieces, even a bit of data entry, trips where another pair of hands/eyes are required to ensure it could happen, someone to talk about an application, or chase it, to ring up universities to ask if they could find a speaker to visit/help a promising student with interview expenses. A PA (unpaid right hand) to the head of sixth form, with a bit of humanities teaching/coaching/mentoring when necessary, would suit. There for teachers as well as students.

At home, I describe my role as "the oil in the machine". I manage builders, pensions, ageing parents, catering and anything else that crops up.