Local community:
Kreamont is situated in St. Andrä Wördern. This is a little community 25 km outside of Vienna - it is very easy to reach Vienna with public transport systems.
There are 9319 inhabitants. Our school is in the centre of St. Andrä, so restaurants, schools, shops,… can easily reached by foot.
During the summer there are a lot of possibilities to relax along the old Danube and in the open air swimming pools. Autumn and spring are the best times to explore the surroundings by bike or by feet. In Winter there are a lot of possibilites to go cross - country skiing and to do other outdoor sports.
Vienna, Tulln and Krems are easily accessible via public transport.
In our community there live more than 50 different nations. Our government is very proud of that. So we have some projects for example "grenzenloskochen" -"borderless cooking".This projects offers all inhabitants the possibility to cook together with people from other countries. So eyerone could learn more about different meals, traditions and customs. www.grenzenloskochen.at- some pictures about the project.

Accomodation/ Volunteer:
The volunteer will be accommodated in a room by a host family. He/ she will live in a single bed room and can use the living room and the kitchen together with the family. The volunteer will get breakfast and dinner at home. Lunch is prepared and eaten at schoool.

Learning outcomes:
During his EVS the volunteer should learn more about the own personality. We think it is a special experience for young persons to work abroad and to speak another language. Our volunteer should develop own ideas and a common understandig for children and their own personalities.
The volunteer should also learn to work in a team.
He/ she will also learn more about our pedagogical principels and to work together with children.

Role of the EVS Volunteer:
Our Volunteer should assist our teachers and support the children by their school everyday life.
The volunteer will not replace a teacher and he or she will not responsible for admintrative work.

The main tasks:
" the volunteer should enrich our daily work with his/ her inputs concerning his/ her home country
" support our pedagogical staff - prepare different methods like presentations, project work, theatre , games, exhibitions and so on.
" Beeing available for questions and problems (support the children)
" Learn, play and talk with the children (listen to them, explain them some different things,…)
" Inform our children about typical things, tradtions and costums of the own country (playing typical games, reading stories, singing songs,…)
" Create own ideas
Our school everyday life starts at 08:00 a. m and finishes at 01:00 p.m. During this time all the teachers are present.

Typical day:
08:00 - 08:15 Arrival and start of the lessons
08:15 - 09:00 Meeting of the regular groups (8 - 10 children and one teacher)
09:00 - 11:45 Free study time or work on different project
11:45 - 12:15 Making order and meeting of regular groups
12:15 - 13:00 Departure of the children

Once a week there is a team meeting. The Volunteer should become an active part of them.
The volunteer is supposed to be present all schoolday long.

During the meeting of the regular groups (8 - 10 children and one teacher) he/ she can get to know the children, introduce his/her own projects and get informed about the daily plans. Sometimes there are presentations about new materials or new ideas for the instruction.

During the free study time the volunteer has the opportunity to realize own projects together with the children. (during the free study time the children select the learning materials or the projects for the day) These projects are meant to make the children familiar with the volunteer´s background. Language and culture in gerneral, in detail: telling about living and eating habits, stories about his/ her own schooldays, introducing tradtional songs and games, ….

The volunteer will definitely be a great support for the children and the teachers in acquiring his/ her own language and is invited to add whatever ideas he/ she has in order to enrich and ease the learning.

The volunteer should also learn more about Austria - so the children will talk with him/ her, telling stories, explain something,… we would like to have an exchange between the volunteer and our children.

During the team meetings volunteer should explain his/ her own ideas for projects together with the children. Moreover the volunteer should become an active member of our school.

Profile of the volunteer:
" Interested in working with children
" Interested in the pedagogical principles of Maria Montessori
" Open minded
" Creativ
" Interested in team working

The volunteer can find our project description in the public evs database. We would like to discuss all applications with the whole team. The Youth Information Centre of Lower Austria (Co Ordinating organisation) will support us. We are open to work with different partners from Europe.

Our staff will support the volunteer by the daily work. Our team will spend enough time with the volunteer as necessary. The volunteer will also have a personal mentor, he or she will be available for questions, crisis management, …
Also the coordinating organisation will be available for questions, problems, ….

By all activities the volunteer will be supported by trained persons.

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_form_en.cfm?EID=32000281806