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Sports Program in a local School

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The experience

Work with a kinder - year 12 school develop and run a dedicated sports program and curriculum within their school. With Soccer being a huge focus within the school, this program also works to get teams into the national league! The program involves working with the schools amazing staff to run health and wellbeing lessons, run sports and , participate in carnivals, build awareness around health, and build a schoolwide sports curriculum.

What you offer

20 hours of help per week

Teaching Sports: Teaching or assisting the host, guests, or local communities in practicing sports or physical activities.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 200 Per week

Fee pays for: Donation to project

Description: There is a weekly fee of just $200, as this is to cover all your accommodation, breakfast and dinner each day, airport pick up and ongoing program support.

What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Drinks: Get discounts for drinks and beverages from our bar.

Discounts on Tours: Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.

Free Parties: Get free entrance for the best parties in town.

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

Pub Crawls: Be a part of our pub crawls at local bars!

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Requirements

Fluent English

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

This project aims to improve the health of children as well as improve the knowledge of health and sports in a fun and creative way. Your main purpose as a volunteer in this project is to be teaching children different types of sports as well as giving classes about the human health.

Your tasks as a volunteer will be to teach the children basic health classes during their free-periods as well as teaching the children sports after they finish their classes in the afternoon. Help the school develop a proper sports program and curriculum, where soccer is a key focus. You must therefore be prepared to teach both young children as well as moody teenagers!

Activities & Shift

A typical day begins in the morning time, around 8 AM where you will leave the volunteer house, and head to the nearby school. You will hereafter spend the next 2-3 hours teaching the children some basic health in class - the classes should include basic knowledge about the human body, basic knowledge about diet and definitely include the importance of exercise!

The children all attend Highridge School, which is both a primary and secondary school. That means, that the children are between 7 to 18 years old. The school runs Monday to Friday, with some options to help out on the weekends if you choose too.

Rules

Ensuring you act with professionalism and dignity for the people you work with is of the upmost importance.