The BUDDIES AND BUNDLES PROGRAMME
The Programme
The Franklin Scholars Buddies and Bundles Programme for primary schools, is an evidence-based peer-support programme.
Working closely with your school over a term, we support Year 5 and Year 3 pupils to work together in developing literacy skills as well as nine key social and emotional skills to become better learners.
Focusing on a different social and emotional skill every week, our programme sees Year 5s act as a ‘buddy’ to a Year 3 student, with support from a ‘bundle’ of other students.
Our programme helps develop young people's literacy skills as well as important social and emotional habits and skills – including resilience and confidence. In addition, our programme is flexible in letting schools pick which social and emotional skills they would like to develop in their students, and provides training opportunities for in-school Programme Leaders.
How it works
Our programmes are:
TARGETED to support particular groups of vulnerable or underperforming pupils.
LINKED TO SCHOOL PRIORITY AREAS with a suite of activities developed around 24 social and emotional skills.
ALIGNED WITH THE OFSTED FRAMEWORK and help develop pupils' character – including resilience and confidence.
SUPPORTED BY IMMERSIVE TRAINING and PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES so that programme leaders are equipped to lead high-impact sessions.
As a term-long programme, the scope of impact grows as we continue to work with our partner schools year-on-year or for multiple terms per year. If you'd like to hear more about how we can work with your school, please get in touch.
This programme has been create in consultation with the following individuals:
Matthew Howorth - Writer
Matthew Howorth is a writer and educator who has written a number of short stories, plays, educational resources and books. He wrote a history textbook for Bloomsbury as well as the teaching notes for TV historian Lucy Worsley’s first fiction novel, Eliza Rose. He writes and directs plays, co-wrote a musical on Bruce Lee and is Head of History at Twickenham Prep. Matthew produced the series of nine short stories.
Elaine Nipper - Illustrator
Elaine Nipper is an illustrator with many years experience across variety of clients, from children’s books to commercial clients. Her challenge was to reflect and deliver the message through the illustration, whether this was a black & white line drawing, a gouache coloured painting, a linocut or a digital illustration. Elaine produced high-quality illustrations to accompany the short stories.
Dr Marina Lambrou - Consultant
Marina has a PhD in English Language and Linguistics and is an Associate Professor at Kingston University. She is an expert in storytelling and has extensive knowledge and numerous publications in literary and non-literary stylistics; narratology with a focus on personal and trauma narratives and counterfactual plots in fictional and factual stories; and media discourses. Marina advised on the development of the story questions.
Piloted in partnership with the following schools:
Support for this programme is kindly provided by:
