Teacher Exchange
Our school currently cooperates with the following schools in US: (DANKA, JOZEF prosím doplňte…). We are happy to regularly host a group of teachers leading short term seminars and workshops for our students, and also leading continuing education
In addition, since we are a bilingual school and hope to provide as much student-teacher interaction in English, native speakers are and will be in perpetual need. If interested in spending one or more years furthering ESL skills and educating Slovak students in English, please let us know.
For more information about Teacher Exchange please contact our vice principal DANA BEDNÁROVÁ at dana.bednarova(at)essmt.sk
Vacation Bible School
Since 2004 we are honored to host a one-week day camp for children age 3-11 for a camp full of fun, songs, skits, arts and crafts and a closing program for the parents. More than 200 children each year, usually the first week of July, participate at our Vacation Bible School, led by our partners from Grace Lutheran Church, River Forrest, IL, when a group of ca. 20 adults form that congregation prepares the program and is assisted by over 30 of our student volunteers.
For more information about your possible involvement in VBS please contact our VBS coordinator at janka.minekova(at)bsmt.sk or Grace church at …
J-CAMP
J-CAMP stand for a summer camp targeted at Junior High kids age group. We started it annually more than a decade ago as a summer camp, currently targeted at middle schoolers at our school. Thus we switched the time frame toward the closing of the school year (i.e. second half of June). A partner congregation from Hales Corners, WI provides professional teacher leadership, with our teachers joining in supervising a week of school when our middle schoolers have the opportunity in a day camp-setting to boost their ESL skills.
For more information about your possible involvement in J-CAMP please contact our J-CAMP coordinator at janka.minekova(at)bsmt.sk or Hales Corners church at …
High school camp
Since the launching of our High school we are offering a one-week orientation and teambuilding camp for our future freshmen. A college ministry team from our partner New Heights Church, Vancouver, WA supervises the camp, assisted by our teachers and juniors as chaperones. Thus students entering our high school from various middle schools in town and beyond have the opportunity to get to know their older peers, teachers and boost their ESL level in an informal camp setting. The camp is usually run during the first half of our summer holidays, i.e. the first half of July.
For more information about your possible involvement in High school camp please contact our coordinator at jana.bosakova(at)essmt.sk or New Heights church at …
Summer Exchange Program
Every year we are trying to enhance the bilingual program of our High school curriculum by giving the students the opportunity to spend some time in host families abroad. The program is targeted at our sophomore and junior students, with the idea to spend at least one month in native speaking environment, i.e. US host families and congregations. If you know of any families that would have the possibilities to host one of our students and if your congregation has youth ministry summer programs they could participate in, please let us know… we have a handful of good and excited candidates ready to head out in July/August your way.
For more information about your possible involvement in Summer Exchange Program please contact our coordinator at tomas.gulan(at)essmt.sk
Builders´ group
We are blessed to have a group of volunteers faithfully visiting us every year, helping with the on-going construction and reconstruction of our school edifices, playgrounds, equipment, etc. Usually in the late spring season a group of ca. 12 volunteers centered around our partners from Roseville Lutheran church come, scrub, painting, varnish, tear down old and build up new walls, etc.
For more information about your possible involvement in Builders´ group, please contact our coordinator adrian.kacian(at)gmail.com or Roseville church at ….
Youth group / Youth Choir and other
Possibilities are open for your church-affiliated youth group or a youth band/choir to attend. Every four years we have visitors from Our Saviour´s Lutheran Church Youth Choir (Eagles´ Wings), bringing more than 40 teenagers to experience a mission trip while enjoying the households and company of peers from our school. Also a Youth group from Grace Lutheran visits us every 2-3 years with a large size team of their teenagers. Sounds interesting? Contact our INTL relationships coordinator at tomas.gulan(at)essmt.sk and we will work on making one of these experiences possible also for your group.