HERIOT SCHOOL HERITAGE PRESERVATION 1

Name: HERIOT SCHOOL HERITAGE PRESERVATION 1
Start: 2022-05-30
End: 2022-06-12
Location: La Boissière-École, France

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About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The Heriot school is a historical building dating back from the late 19th century. The boarding school accommodates more than 200 children (from 1st to 5th grade) from Sunday evening to Friday evening. It is composed of classrooms, a canteen, a theatre and surrounded by a 10 hectares\' park. The school project involves the entire educational community in teaching methods that promote the development of socio-behavioral skills.

💼 What the programme involves

Come and restore an old and beautiful boarding school hidden in the Parisian region, in the Yvelines county, in the heart of the countryside and in harmony with nature! Continuing on from last year's workcamp, you will enhance this domain with your artist soul and your painter talents! You will refurbish a mural painting, take care of marble statues, and more generally restore the collective buildings, in order to endorse the school\'s patrimony. You\'ll be also able to come and relax with our weekly activities in the educational garden, in osmosis with the beautiful countryside. Finally, you will participate in the preparations of their major event, the school\'s party, by creating and setting up the theatre play decorations of the kids, but also by writing a tale of the story of the school. Finally, you will have the opportunity to attend an exclusive rehearsal of the Demos Orchestra at the Philharmonie de Paris as part of a short getaway evening to the beautiful French capital.

🏠 Accommodation on site

You will sleep in a bed, in collective rooms. Remember to bring a shower towel and a sleeping bag! You will have access to showers and toilets. You will be helping the school chef with the preparation of the meals. You will be having lunch with the children in the canteen of the school. A washing machine will be at your disposal to do your laundry.

📍 About the location

La Boissiere-Ecole is located in the county of Yvelines, 85km away from Paris. It is a small town with a remarkable built and natural heritage, giving you a piece of nature 1 and half hour from Paris and 30 min from Rambouillet. You will be able to organize walks in the forest, visit of the castle of Rambouillet or the Castle of Versailles, bike ride, getaway in Paris and many other things according to your desires! A bus network will allow you to move around the area.

ℹ️ Additional information

All activities, as well as group living times and sleeping arrangements will be organized in compliance with and adapted to sanitary conditions. Wearing a mask will be mandatory during all activities and times of collective life. Meals will be organized in such way in order to respect the distance of 2 meters between each person. In France, the touristic opportunity is wide: if you want to stay longer, please get in touch with the local tourist information. Pack smart: Sleeping bag, reusable water bottle, working clothes, shoes for walking and working, raincoat, sun screen, swimsuit, towel, sun hat or cap, mosquito repellent, camera, flashlight... Feel free to bring from home specialties such as photos, games, musical instruments, etc. Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, bring their insurance certificate. If health issues arise on the project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and will then be reimbursed once back in their home country. This project is supported by the program European Solidarity Corps (ESC) for young people between 18 and 30 years. It is open to all volunteers that fit the ESC criteria. The participation to the ESC volunteering teams is subjects to several principles and conditions, presented on the ESC webpage: https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity/mission_en - volunteers do not have to pay any fee (not sending, nor participation fee) to attend the project and will receive a financial support for their travel, according to a maximum amount established in accordance with their travel distance and upon the presentation of original tickets; - volunteers need to enrol in the PASS, the ESC Portal; then Concordia France will organise their matching, on the online system, with the volunteering project; - volunteers will receive pocket money, calculated on basis of 6€/day, once they arrive on the project in France; - volunteers will have to complete a participation report, submitted online through the portal.

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