Info and Summer Jobs
- Welcome to Language Camp
- That’s ´LEOlingo Sprachcamps für Kinder´
- LEOlingo Day Camp
- LEOlingo Overnight Camp
- LEOlingo Language Camps for Schools and Companies
- LEOlingo On Tour
- Your English, Spanish or French Language Camp
- Jobs for Native Speakers and Bilinguals
1. Welcome to Language Camp
´LEOlingo Sprachcamps für Kinder´ offers children and teenagers, aged between 7 and 17 years old, language holidays in English, French and Spanish.
Our counsellors are native speakers from all over the world. They come from Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, America, France and Spain and give a great insight into the language and culture of their country. This allows the children to experience the new language as if they were abroad.
Our one-week language camps are available as day or overnight camps. All camps offer a varied programme consisting of sport, games, crafts, drama and music. At our special camps, the children can also go canoeing, windsurfing or horse riding.
In Northern Germany there are language camps in Hamburg, Schwerin and on the Baltic Coast. In Southern Germany, children can take part in language camps around Erlangen, Amberg, Nuremberg, Neumarkt and Regensburg.
2. That’s ´LEOlingo Sprachcamps für Kinder´
The world right on your doorstep!
Our one-week language camps encourage fun with the language, self-confidence and contact with other children. Each with their own small group (about 12 kids), the English, French or Spanish speaking counsellors organise a varied camp programme so that the children really get to know the language. Everything is explained enthusiastically to encourage the children to join in. They should feel comfortable in this “new world”.
At LEOlingo it’s not about overloading the children with grammar and vocabulary. The main focus is on the speaking and understanding of the language in everyday situations, as the counsellors speak only in their native language. Through language games and sports, self-written dramas and funny sketches, crafts and discussions, the children simply learn the language along the way.
At the end of each week, we have our own stage show (the “Happy-ning”), so family and friends can see what we have been up to during the week.
3. LEOlingo Day Camp
English camp for children aged 7 to 14
At this LEOlingo English camp, the children are at camp Monday to Friday, from 9 until 5 o’clock and then at home again in the evenings. At midday, there is time for everyone to have lunch together.
At a day camp, our native speakers from England, America or Australia offer the children funny language games and team activities (language rallies, puzzles, dialogues), popular national sports (baseball, American football, rugby, etc.) and great songs. The children also create their own sketches and dramas, which they perform to their family and friends in a stage show at the end of the English camp. For this stage show (the “Happy-ning”), the children also make their own simple costumes, masks and scenery.
Here is an example programme for a typical day at this English camp. Every counsellor is responsible for their own individual group. The children are split up according to age and English ability.
A day at a day camp:
09.00 – 09.30 Morning circle
09.30 – 10.00 Warm-up games
10.00 – 10.15 Short break
10.15 – 11.30 Language games
11.30 – 12.00 Language rally
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break
13.00 – 15.30 Sports, arts and crafts
15.30 – 15.45 Short break
15.45 – 16.30 Drama, costumes, scenery
16.30 – 16.45 Tidy-up
16.45 – 17.00 Afternoon circle
4. LEOlingo Overnight Camp
English, French or Spanish language camp for children aged 10 to 14 or 16
At our LEOlingo overnight camps everything is there: the language, the accommodation, the food and lots of fun. The children and counsellors sleep in tents, bungalows, cabins, guesthouses or even in a castle.
Our native speakers from England, Australia, America, France or Spain provide a varied programme with language games, songs, funny sketches, short dramas, creative activities and of course, the popular sports from each country (Baseball, Rugby, Cricket, American Football, etc.).
In the evenings, the children can expect a programme with campfires, games, a disco, night hikes and more.
With the overnight camps, children can choose between a classic camp or a special camp:
Our classic camps offer a diverse programme of language, sport and creative activities – ideal for children who don’t want to focus on a particular area. There are classic camps running on several dates in English, French and Spanish.
At our special camps, the children choose a particular focus, which is then incorporated into the language programme every day. During several weeks, there are English camps combined with sport, surfing, horse riding and climbing. We work together with experienced professionals who teach the children everything they need to know about the respective area.
We recommend overnight camps for kids aged 10 to 14 or 16 years. The French and Spanish camps are meant for children from 11 to 16 years old (with previous knowledge). The groups of these overnight camps are there at the same time as the groups of the English camps.
Here is an example programme for an overnight camp. The children are split into different age groups. Every counsellor is responsible for their own individual group.
A day at a classic camp:
07.30 – 08.00 Wash/shower
08.00 – 08.30 Breakfast
09.00 – 09.30 Morning circle
09.30 – 10.00 Warm-up games
10.00 – 10.15 Short break
10.15 – 11.30 Language games
11.30 – 12.00 Language rally
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break
13.00 – 15.30 Sports, arts and crafts
15.30 – 15.45 Short break
15.45 – 16.30 Drama, costumes, scenery
16.30 – 16.45 Tidy-up
16.45 – 17.00 Afternoon circle
17.00 – 18.00 Free time
18.00 – 18.30 Dinner
19.00 – 21.00 Campfire, games, LEOlingo olympics, disco
22.00 Bedtime
A day at a special camp:
07.30 – 08.00 Wash/shower
08.00 – 08.30 Breakfast
09.00 – 09.30 Morning circle
09.30 – 10.00 Warm-up games
10.00 – 10.15 Short break
10.15 – 11.30 Language games
11.30 – 12.00 Language rally
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break
13.00 – 15.30 Sport, windsurfing or horse riding
15.30 – 15.45 Short break
15.45 – 16.30 Drama, costumes, scenery
16.30 – 16.45 Tidy-up
16.45 – 17.00 Afternoon circle
17.00 – 18.00 Free time
18.00 – 18.30 Dinner
19.00 – 21.00 Campfire, games, LEOlingo olympics, disco
22.00 Bedtime
5. LEOlingo Language Camps for Schools and Companies
Schools have the opportunity to organise a language camp for a whole class. Whether at the school or at a youth centre, each pupil can use and build up their language knowledge. The class is encouraged to bond and the teachers also find new enthusiasm.
We can also happily organise a language camp for a company as an internal holiday programme for employees’ children. So the parents can work peacefully in the holidays, the children have fun while also learning, and the companies have happy employees.
6. LEOlingo On Tour
Language holidays for teenagers aged 14 to 17
LEOlingo On Tour is aimed at teenagers who want to venture further afield. In the summer holidays we offer a language trip to England, as well as youth camps on the Island of Rügen and in Bavaria.
7. Your English, Spanish or French Language Camp
Here you will find the dates for the English, French and Spanish language camps in Bavaria and in Hamburg/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for summer 2010.
If you click on a camp location in the table, you will be shown more details (in German) and also some photos.
Special camps include wind-surfing (“Ü/Surfen”), horse riding (“Ü/Reiten”), sports (“Ü/Sport”), circus arts (“Ü/Circus-Artistik”), high ropes course (“Ü/Hochseilg.”), football (“Ü/Fußball”) and beach camp (“Ü/Beach”). The overnight camps (“Ü”) last from Sunday (2, 5 or 6 pm) or Monday (9 am) to Friday (5 pm) or Saturday (12 am).
Day camps (“T”) last from Monday 9 am to Friday 5 pm.
8. Summer Camp Jobs for Native Speakers and Bilinguals
Teaching jobs abroad as camp counsellors - native speakers wanted!
Learning a foreign language can be fun! Teaching as well!
Our approach is to live the language and make it happen. The kids should feel comfortable learning the language and gain confidence through games and activities. We are not a "conservative" language school, we organise holiday camps. Our goal is to show children that learning and speaking different languages is a lot of fun. Arts and crafts, language games, sports, singing, drama and sketches are part of our weekly program. You will be trained to teach a language without overloading the kids with grammar or pure vocabulary, but by playing games, supporting their creativity and practising their conversation skills.
We are searching native speakers as language counsellors during the German summer break. Don’t hesitate to send us your application, if your mother tongue is English, French-English or Spanish-English, if you would like to spend some time working abroad and if you are interested in teaching kids your language in a fun way, while having the possibility of travelling and getting to know the German culture.
You should have the following skills:
• English mother tongue, English-French or English-Spanish bilingual.
• Experienced in working with children between 7 and 15.
• Capable to take over responsibility for a whole group (about 12 kids).
• Teaching experience would be useful.
• Capable and willing to adapt to different countries, rules and habits as well as to simple living conditions.
• Willing to teach children who don’t know any words of your language as well as older kids who need to practice the language in a patient, interesting and effective way.
• Willing to take over responsibility for material as well as campsites (to return them in a proper way).
• Be available for at least six weeks during the period from July 2nd to August 21st (Hamburg/Schwerin) or from July 23rd to September 10th (Bavaria). The first week of training is included.
Applicants don’t need to speak German but it would be helpful.
Non EU-citizens require a work permit or a "work-and-travel-visa" which they can apply for at the German embassy of their home country (US-citizens: it takes up to four months to get this visa).
Applicants with teaching experience are preferred.
Musicians are very welcome to apply.
College and university students are preferred.
Your working conditions at LEOlingo Sprachcamps:
• You will be working at different sites in Bavaria, Hamburg, Schwerin or at the Baltic Sea for four to six weeks.
• You might be working alone at a campsite or with other counsellors.
• You will be at the same place for only one or two weeks.
• Camps take place in schools, Boy Scout areas, youth centres, campsites, cabins or even in castles.
• About 12 kids will be in one group.
• You will be living with German host families, in simple guest houses or apartments or at the campsite, when you are responsible for an overnight camp.
• The participation in a one week training programme is mandatory (8 days before camps start; the dates above include the training period) as well as at a refresher training session one weekend.
LEOlingo offers:
• Free bed and breakfast (at the sites and on the weekends if you don’t travel).
• Fair salary.
• Transportation (organisation and cover) from one camp to another.
• Time to travel at some weekends or during a week off (if told early in advance).
Click here to find Testimonials.
If you want to contact us, just click Sabine Görner (Hamburg/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, if you are available from July 2nd to August 21st or if you are a Spanish-English or French-English bilingual) or Andrea Bär (Bavaria, if you are available from July 23rd to September 10th). You can ask for an application form and further information about LEOlingo and the application process or download these documents below.
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