📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
We are a collaboration of two studios working with kids from 3 to 16 years old. StudioKidz is focused on very young learners’ development in English - we practice language immersion through arts, cooking, science and physical exercise. Zefirka Culinary Studio aims at enabling children to acquire practical skills and learn about the art of cooking. Our programs presuppose kids’ immersion into country studies supporting practices of ecological approach in Europe. During summer holidays we organize weekly camps where kids can practice various skills and experience intercultural exchange.
💼 What the programme involves
- assist the teacher during English classes (paint, glue, cut, sing, dance, mix ingredients...)
- be ready to talk with kids about country studies (symbols, languages, what they grow, what they eat, how they work...)
- organize free-time activities with kids in the studio
- take an active part in organizing charity events
-take part in organizing and settling free workshops for children including children with Down Syndrome
- assist the chef during culinary workshops (help the kids weigh the ingredients, cook with a group of children to speed up the process and keep the dynamics of the class, be ready to talk about international cuisine)
- be ready to explain terms and teach English for cooking’ (short lessons teaching cutlery used in the kitchen, verbs used to cook etc. based on their own experience)
- organize free-time activities with kids in the studio and outdoors (some team-building games, painting or physical activities during the spare time in the camp...)
- take an active part in organizing charity events (take roles of assistants or prepare performances with kids with limited abilities, teach them skills to be used in the future)
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated together in a hostel or a flat, both with kitchen where they’ll be able to cook if desired. Products or money to buy them will be provided.
June can be a warm and a rainy month so both summer clothes and some warmer outfits, along with an umbrella or a rain coat, are a necessity. Volunteers also must have a pair of spare shoes to work in the studios. Linen will be provided.
📍 About the location
The volunteers will have to work either in the first part of the day, or in the second, depending on the schedule of the classes. They’ll be expected to come to work about 1 hour before the beginning of the class and stay afterwards to clean up, then some time should be dedicated to planning for the next day and then they’ll have free time. Weekends will be mostly free.
In their free time volunteers will be able to walk around the city and visit cultural places of their preference (information, maps and any assistance will be provided). There will also be a couple of parties organized by our studios and a boat trip along the Volga.
