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Sprout
For Poly students

Be the senior you wish you had

Sprout gives free tuition and mentorship to primary school students from underprivileged and SEN backgrounds. Pick sessions around your timetable, get trained, and leave with service hours that are on record.

  • Run by volunteers your age
  • Free for every student
  • Training included
Why Poly students choose Sprout

Made for a Poly timetable, and worth your time

Fits around your timetable

You choose the sessions you sign up for, so you can plan around exams, project deadlines and semester breaks.

Hours that are on record

Check in with your phone and your hours are credited automatically. Print your service record any time.

Trained before you teach

Short online modules on tutoring, mentoring and working with SEN students, with certificates anyone can verify.

Experience worth talking about

Explaining, planning, leading. The stories interview panels and scholarship boards ask you for.

Your diploma, put to use

There is a role for what you study

Pick your course area to see where you might fit. Any diploma is welcome, and you choose your role when you sign up.

Suggested role

Tutor & Mentor

Early childhood, psychology, social work, special needs and other people-focused diplomas

What you would do

Help a primary school student with homework and revision, and be the older buddy they look forward to seeing.

What it builds

Lesson planning, working with SEN learners, and confidence in front of a student.

Sign up for this role
On the day

A session, start to finish

Everything runs from your phone. The admin side stays out of your way so you can focus on your student.

  1. The day before

    A reminder lands

    An email with the session time and place, so nothing slips.

  2. When you arrive

    Scan and swipe

    Scan the QR on the organiser’s screen. No signal? Your check-in is saved and sent later.

  3. During

    Teach and mentor

    Homework, revision or PSLE prep, at your student’s pace.

  4. After

    Hours credited

    Your service hours update by themselves. No forms, no chasing anyone.

Spread the word

Know someone who’d be great at this?

Share our poster in your class or CCA group chat. The QR code on it brings people straight to this page.

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Supported by Bagus Together and Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s School of Humanities & Interdisciplinary Studies.

Getting started

Three steps to your first session

You will not be thrown in. Training comes first, and organisers are on hand at sessions.

  1. Step 1

    Create your account

    Use Google or your email. It takes a minute.

  2. Step 2

    Tell us about you

    Your poly, your availability and what you’d like to do. Under 18? A parent or guardian gives consent.

  3. Step 3

    Train, then pick a session

    Finish the short training, then sign up for a session that suits you.

Questions

What Poly students usually ask

Something else on your mind? Email us.

Supported by

Bagus Together

Someone is waiting for a senior like you

Sign up now, do the training at your own pace, and pick your first session when you are ready.

Or email ltang@sproutsg.org