📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Trythall Primary School is a community based school serving children from a rural area aged 4 – 11. The school is well known for its excellent use of the outdoors in their education and have a garden area with a pond, a greenhouse made from recycled lemonade bottles and an African-style key hole vegetable plot. The children are actively encouraged to learn about the natural world with visits to the beach, interaction with the local community projects and days out to the woods for storytelling and outdoor activities.
Concordia are very excited to be working in this area of the UK and to work alongside the school and provide international volunteers to help create a beautiful environment for the children.
💼 What the programme involves
Trythall School are continuing to develop their outdoor space for the children and in the last few years the group of international volunteers have helped to create an outside maze and theatre area. The International volunteers will work on horticulture, hard landscaping and creative tasks. The work may change depending on the weather and the children who are assisting each day; we ask that volunteers are FLEXIBLE and willing to help with any of the tasks. The two week project will involve outdoor gardening however in week 1 the children will be around in the classrooms as volunteers work outside and then the second week the school will be closed and only accessible to the volunteers who will continue work in the garden areas.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation is basic but adequate; volunteers will sleep on the floor in the community room at the school or in a large tent outside. There are toilets and cooking facilities at the school. There is no shower at the school so volunteers will be using showers with host families and will be able to access them every 2 – 3 days. Please bring a sleeping bag and roll mat. The community room is used at 9am for the school so volunteers must be prepared to tidy their things away in the morning. However in the second week the volunteers will be able to access all the rooms they need due to the school being closed.
📍 About the location
Penzance, nestled in the heart of Mounts Bay, is the capital of Penwith and West Cornwall. Near the very tip of England this is a rural and beautiful landscape with plenty of history and long standing traditions combined with up to date facilities.
⚠️ Requirements
• Volunteers must have a good level of English and be very motivated to work with children. An interest in outdoor activities would be helpful and a willingness to learn.
• A certificate of good conduct is required.