School at Sea ready for another trip

The group is complete, the students have met and are eager to start their dream journey. Around mid-October they will set sail together on the tall ship Thalassa.

Last weekend, the SaS students met for the first time as a group in the same formation as they will board the ship to get to know each other better and prepare for their big trip. This is always a great moment. After many months or even years of preparation, this is the group they are going to do it with. The first friendships have already been formed on the introductory weekend, but who exactly are these other sailing buddies with whom you will experience crazy adventures? In any case, there was plenty of hilarity when everyone tried on their sailing suits for the first time. But besides all the fun, there were also serious explanations on how to organise your schoolwork for the coming weeks on board and which development goals to set for yourself. Because once we set sail, you are responsible for your own schoolwork.
Another pre-departure preparation day, involving both SaS students and their parents, is planned for mid-September. And on 13 October it is finally time to embark and say goodbye. Always a very special moment.

Fundraising

Meanwhile, the second training for School at Sea 25/26 starts on 22 September, which is also filling up fast. With the fundraising programme, the students can build up a budget themselves, and prepare themselves mentally for the trip and the responsibilities that go with it.
After all, going on School at Sea is not cheap. Yet the participants can still afford to pay the costs without rich parents. School at Sea finds it important that each participant raises the required budget themselves. Participants are given tools to do so. This makes School at Sea accessible to everyone.
The Fundraising Pathway also helps them prepare mentally for the trip itself and the responsibilities that will come their way, making it a development programme in itself.
Sometimes the commitment and the outcomes are not directly proportional. In that case, a supplementary grant from the School at Sea fund can be requested.

More information on School at Sea’s activities can be found here.
Image: the Thalassa under sail.

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