Volunteer with children and youth at the boarding school Urspringschule in South Germany!
Urspringschule Schelklingen
Schelklingen, Germany
Description
Urspring School in Southern Germany is committed to realizing its educational mission as a unity of living, learning and teaching in a shared life, promoting specialist knowledge, humanity and creative powers in equal measure. As a private school, we see ourselves as a service provider, promoter and mentor. Our task is to support children and young people in developing their individual life skills. We understand this to mean the entirety of their cognitive, emotional, methodological and social potential, which young people develop in order to be able to shape their present and future lives in a meaningful and active way. Around 270 pupils (130 of them at the boarding school, the rest as day pupils) aged between 8 and 20 from various backgrounds live and learn at Urspring School, in class sizes of around 16 children. Our private school is located in the quiet and relaxed atmosphere of the village of Schelklingen in a former monasty which now is a place of communal living and learning.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Volunteers will live in a fully equipped employee’s apartment, located on the school grounds. Volunteers can get food five times a day at the school canteen. For their days off, volunteers get paid an allowance, so they can buy their own food. Volunteers will get a monthly ticket for local transport all over Germany, as well as reimbursement for travel expenses on the basis of the ESC guidelines. The monthly pocket money is €210.
Training during the activity
The volunteers will receive at least one German language course and additionally the online language course via the OLS system. At the school, the volunteers get the possibility to take part in team meetings and will also have regular meetings with their tutor. Furthermore, volunteers will take part in two obligatory trainings, organised by the German National Agency, and additionally in one workshop, organized by the coordinating organisation VIA e.V.
Participant profile
- Strong motivation to work with children and youth (experience in this field is a plus) - Likes being around people/ ability to work in a team - Driver’s licence which qualifies for driving in Germany and driving experience - Open and communicative - Good level of English (or German) - Aged 20 or older
Activity dates
A total of 33 week(s) during the period 15/12/2024 to 31/07/2025
Activity location
An der Schwäbischen Alb, Urspring 1, Schelklingen, Germany
Activity type
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
Activity topics
Health and wellbeing
Education and training
Creativity and culture
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 07/11/2024 23:59