There are six of us volunteers from Germany, Italy, France and Portugal.
We spent our first few days of this volunteering programme at AETA preparing the workshops we were going to run with the classes. We were given complete freedom to do so.
Then, during Empathy and Welcome Week, we supported pupils in Years 5 to 9 with a range of very useful workshops that we organised especially for them.
With the Year 5 pupils, we organised a ‘Peddy Paper’ to help them get to know the school whilst searching for stars and clues that showed them where to go.
In Year 6, we introduced the pupils to a healthy lifestyle. Staying true to the theme, we invited them to a lesson packed with different types of sport and healthy eating.
As biology, chemistry and physics become more important subjects in Year 7, we devised three different experiments to spark the pupils’ curiosity about these natural sciences.
Year 8 pupils had to be much more creative. We asked them to create short films on important and meaningful topics, such as bullying, social media, teamwork and empathy.
For the older pupils in Year 9, we devised a rather unusual team-building activity. We placed them in an escape room that we had built ourselves, which they had to solve together in order to escape. The Year 9 teaching team tested this activity, and so we were also able to share some enjoyable moments with the teachers.
All the pupils took part very well in our activities and, with great patience, listened to us speaking English, as some of us did not speak Portuguese.
We organised this whole project with the help of the European Solidarity Corps, a Europe-wide programme that helps us travel to different countries, explore new cultures and make wonderful new friends.[{“id”:”custom_html”,”tag”:”
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