Rather than sit at home all summer long, King’s Fork High School rising junior Janay Pyron decided to LEAP into action.

She signed on as a volunteer with Suffolk Public Schools’ revamped elementary summer school, called the Learning and Enrichment for Academic Progress program.

The program is being held Mack Benn Jr. Elementary School, where Pyron has been volunteering every day.

“I like kids,” she said. “I babysit and help out with my neighbor’s kids. It’s something I do often.”

Pyron decided that volunteering with LEAP would be a good way to accumulate the community service hours she needs to graduate high school. Several other volunteers at Mack Benn on Wednesday cited the same motivation.

“I also had to get hours,” said Aliah King, also a rising junior at King’s Fork. “I always enjoy working with kids. When my mom read up online about this program, I thought I’d be interested in doing it.”

King, whose mother used to be a special education teacher at John F. Kennedy Middle School, said she wants to be a teacher. “Doing this and working with kids has helped me out a lot,” she said. “You learn that each kid has strengths and weaknesses, and how to take those and work with them.”

Lakeland High School rising junior Brandon Drayton said he wanted to learn more about working with kids and being responsible. He’s not really looking at a teaching career, he said, “but if it came up, I wouldn’t mind doing it.”

In the morning, Drayton is in the classroom helping with lessons. He later works with the children on Island of Learning — software that teaches the Standards of Learning.

“They have good memories for names,” Drayton said of the children. “I walk into the classroom, and they are all, like, ‘Good morning, Mr. Brandon.’”

LEAP, which is in its second-to-last week, has consistently had about 35 volunteers each week, said Catherine Pichon, its principal. “That’s significant,” she added.

The summer school couldn’t operate without them, she said, adding one important role they play is helping facilitate visits by community partners.

Last week, Pichon said, Suffolk Public Library, the dental van, Taylor Orthodontics, Western Tidewater Community Services Board and the Suffolk Sheriff’s Office all added to the learning experience.

“If my volunteers weren’t here, none of that would been able to take place,” she said.

Brothers KaRon and Kevin Wiggins are two more LEAP volunteers from King’s Fork High School. KaRon, a rising freshman, said it was an opportunity for him to get all of his community service hours before even starting high school.

Kevin Wiggins, a rising junior, has found himself learning to tailor his teaching approach for each individual child. “Every child is different,” he said.

Ben Kincaid, another King’s Fork rising freshman, said that as well as getting his hours for graduation, he wanted to help out his mom, Mary Kincaid, a teacher assistant at Mack Benn and with the summer school.

“I thought it would probably be a good experience for me,” Ben said.