ESC: Volunteer with children and youth at the boarding school Urspringschule in South Germany!

The Urspring School Foundation was established in 1930 in order to run a reform school on a non-profit and Protestant basis. The founder used his paternal inheritance and acquired the estate of the former Urspring monastery. Urspring has been shaping generations of pupils and giving them a foundation for life ever since. In accordance with the aims of its founders, Urspring School follows the tradition of the German state educational institutions and reform pedagogy. It 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 Baden-Württemberg, close to the border with Bavaria. The former Urspring Monastery is now a place of communal living and learning.