If you have a passion for the energy of little ones, join us at the Lucky Kids Kindergarten where you'll use games and activities to teach the children English in an informal, interactive setting. If you have skills in Arts & Crafts or Music you can also use these very effectively on this project.

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►SUMMARY FACTFILE
Start Dates	All year round except during school holidays (see list below) - you choose your start and finish dates!
Duration	2 weeks to 12 months+, subject to visa requirements
Requirements	No qualifications or knowledge of Mandarin necessary, but a little basic Mandarin will make your placement much more enjoyable. You do need a good dose of enthusiasm and lots of energy!
Price	From £795  / US$1,195 for 2 weeks, ranging to £2,395 / US$3,595 for 12 weeks.   Full Price List and other Currencies
What's included	►Accommodation ►Food  ►Meeting you at Shanghai Airport ►Transfer to your accommodation ►Transport to and from your project ►Full pre-departure support ►Local in-country team support and backup ►24-hr emergency support ►2 free T-Shirts.
What's not included	Flights, Insurance, Cost of Visas (if a visa is required, but we'll provide necessary documents and assistance), Return transfer to airport.
Who can do this Project?	All projects are open to all nationalities. Unless otherwise stated, you need to be aged between 17 and 70+

PROJECT OVERVIEW
The name says it all really… you’ll be working at the Yangzhou Lucky Kids Kindergarten with young Chinese children. Lucky Kids Kindergarten is located in a large and colourful building and you can feel the fun atmosphere as soon as you walk into the entrance hall. Whether you want to work in early years education, or if you'd just rather teach English at a more basic level, this project is the one for you. You'll be teaching and caring for younger children from ages 3-6, so bring a big smile and your creativity...

WHAT YOU'LL GAIN FROM DOING THIS PROJECT:

• An exciting, never-to-be-forgotten adventure into the Orient and Chinese culture.

• The enormous satisfaction of helping children and knowing that you made a difference to them.

• New skills, more confidence, a greater understanding of a different culture, invaluable personal and professional development.

• An entry on your CV or résumé that will put you head and shoulders above most others in the job market

• And best of all ... an unforgettable experience!

WORK CONTENT
Your work will mostly focus around teaching the children some basic English through games, songs, stories and other fun activities. You may also be asked to help out in caring for the children (ie accompanying them to the toilet, helping them get ready for nap time etc) and playing with the children when they do sports, games and activities such as colouring or playing in the ball pit. However, your main role is that of an English teacher. For more details about this project, please see below.

This is a lovely project which you'll thoroughly enjoy. The walls at the Kindergarten are covered in drawings, paintings and murals done by and for the children and each room is filled with equipment to assist the children’s learning.

“I was in China last Sept teaching Kindergarten Children. I really loved this project and the country and I hope to revisit this year. I have done 2 of your projects now, and I can’t get enough of them. Maybe you will see me again soon!!!”  Victoria Allen

The Kindergarten requires volunteers to assist work from 9:30am – 4:30pm Monday-Friday. Your weekends and evenings will be free and this will allow some time for relaxing, travelling and sightseeing. If you would like more time to travel during or after your teaching, either let Travellers know before you leave, or speak to Tim, our Yangzhou Organiser, and she will try to arrange it with the Kindergarten; we cannot guarantee that this will be possible, but we will be as flexible as circumstances allow.

You'll usually teach lessons of your own design, giving you lots of freedom although you’ll usually have a Chinese teacher present in the classroom with you to assist you. The Kindergarten has stressed that playing games is the most important thing to do, although you do need to be careful with safety as the children are so young and get over-excited very easily! If you play an instrument and wish to bring it with you to play to the children, please do so. The Kindergarten is also interested in having volunteers who can work on arts & crafts with the kids.

Approximately 200 children attend, and there will be around 25 children in each group. The children are aged between 3-6 but you will mostly be working with the older age ranges. There are already 4 English teachers at the school so your lessons will compliment theirs.

You don’t need any language skills to take part in the project, but as the children are so young and don’t have very good command of English yet, it would be of benefit to you to know as much as possible. Take lessons or use a tape and book before you leave, or speak to your Project Co-Ordinator if you’d like to take some Mandarin Lessons before or during your project.

Holidays are as follows:

• The whole of August

• May Holiday Week : 1-7^th May

• October Holiday Week : 1-7^th October

• New Year: The date for Chinese New Year changes every year, and there will usually be a 2 week holiday around this time

You are welcome to take part in a project over these periods and spend the holiday travelling.

National Holidays in China
All projects will break for Chinese National Holidays. The main events are:

There are also a number of shorter holidays throughout the year where some projects will be closed. You are very welcome to join a project during holiday time, however you will not be able to work if your project is closed. Teaching Projects run all year round, including during the summer holidays. However they will still close for the holidays mentioned above.