Project International - Leamington Spa

Anthony W.

The worst summer camp, school or any institution for that matter that I have ever worked at. There was a major lack of communication, rudeness from many members of staff, including the camp leader, treating me as if I were a child, uttter lack of respect, frequent flippant, sarcastic and facetious remarks
which there was absolutely no need for. The mood and morale of the camp was exceedingly poor. The only redeeming aspect of the whole experience were the children who were fabulous and the area which was very beautiful.

Anonymous P.

I do not recommend anyone work or send their children here:

This is an opportunity for anyone who would like to get experience in teaching with no prior experience. Also expect to be given a great deal of responsibility such as running an excursion to a different city, living in with the children, and conducting airport pickups and drop offs. It was also rewarding to work with children/teenagers which was enjoyable.

Allowed to test your creativity and resourcefulness creating and conducting lessons from scratch with a bare minimum of training.

Cons:

Dear the 'senior' and some staff members.
I am utterly disgusted with your conduct and mistreatment of us, you should be ashamed for your racism towards certain ethnic groups and the deeply unacceptable way you conducted yourselves professionally. You were incredibly lucky to have some fantastic people on your team who worked untiringly, who you treated like dirt, myself included.
• Understaffed with an unwelcoming atmosphere from staff who already knew each other day one with no formal greeting for staff that have travelled a long way.
• Expectation to know things that ‘senior’ staff who had been working there for 4/5 years already knew. Gave it a making up rules as you go along type of atmosphere and continually being shouted at (in front of the children) when we did not do these things that were not common sense activities.
• Different rules for different people, where the staff member who worshipped the ‘senior’ staff were rewarded with being allowed to drink with them on the job in their (secret) drinking/ gossiping club that happened every evening. There was no disciplinary action for these staff when this was discovered, which is highlighted as a direct breach of the employee contract, however because the most ‘senior’ of staff was doing it with them most nights and also drinking in their bedroom they got away with it.
They also left this alcohol out and it unsurprisingly went missing in a boarding house full of 11-17 year olds.
• Suspicion that they were using the staff budget to fund this drinking club and they were claiming false expenses.
• There were accidents on the road involving our coaches and sometimes other vehicles in unrelated incidents. However witnessing someone unfortunately pass away in an accident and being expected to still work in the evening, with no follow up on how we were doing in the next few days was particularly disgusting.
• Paid for my own DBS form and other ‘essentials’ which were never used or checked.
• Underpaid from agreed contracted amount and still yet to receive full payment.
• Bare minimum of teacher training, apart from supply books I have no idea what the educational ‘senior’ staff member did.
• Accused of treating the experience like a holiday camp by ‘senior’ staff where I was working from 7am-1am (and not drinking on the job), an early start was expected for a summer camp however the late time of going to bed is down to fitting in lesson planning time. You do not in fact have a day off once a week as this is spent entirely planning lessons (that you are not paid for and you have to buy your own food on your day off) or you have a half day off teaching earlier, sometimes this full day off was never even scheduled for and you were still expected to work.
• Shocking levels of underpayment for these hours at £37.50 a day. Taking into consideration that you pay for your own DBS check, travel, essential items etc. And months on you still have not paid me in full.

You need to completely change your managers or give them more training. Re-evaluate staff pay and target Universities if you are low on staff and get people out on the ground recruiting. You need to understand that we can handle being told we are doing something wrong, however being treated with no value whilst hanging unsupported every day was poor form from your 'senior' staff. I have never been more stressed or low in my entire life and was immediately cured when I left.

Dean J.

A rewarding experience for anyone who wants their children to get a real feel for The U.K. The level of English for a child of any age multiplies and the company focuses on integrating nationalities so they must use English on a daily basis. I highly recommend Project International for anyone who wants to see their child mature and improve their English.

Previous W.

Awful company with a disgusting lack of respect for both staff and the safety of their children. DO NOT send your kids here!!!

laststopthistown

Great customer service !

Marc R.

La meva filla va anar l'estiu del 2023 a l'escola de Rendcomb. Per ella va ser una experiència inoblidable, pel bon ambient, les activitats variades, sortides i noves amistats que va fer. Va progressar molt amb el seu nivell d'anglès i va gaudir molt amb el bon equip de monitors que els van acollir.
Sens dubte vol repetir, ja que va ser un dels millors estius que ha viscut.

Marcos M.

És una gran empresa amb més de 30 anys d’experiència en l’organització de summer camps a Anglaterra. El monitoratge és excel·lent. Hi participen nens i nenes d’arreu del món i les seves experiències durant les seves estades als campaments de Project International són increïbles, de les que duren per a tota la vida. Les escoles on es fan les estades són tipiques britàniques i les excursions estan pensades per conèixer la cultura anglesa, cosa que és perfecte per a que els nens i nenes puguin practicar l’anglès . Molt recomanable enviar als fills i filles amb aquesta empresa.

Braulio G. C.

Mi hija de 14 años era la primera vez que iba y teníamos cierto temor, pero desde el principio nos dieron confianza y nos pusieron las cosas muy fáciles. Y qué decir, que hace 4 días que vino y todavía está llorando echando de menos a los amigos que hizo allí y recordando todas las buenas experiencias que vivió. Ella fue al Rendcomb College y que su director, Marcos, fuese español también nos ayudó mucho, tanto aquí como allí. Un diez.