Kopalnie Salomona - Szlifujemy Diamenty /Salomon’s Mines – Polishing the Diamonds/... is a project of the group European Voluntary Service which was realized in the Christian Primary School ”Salomon” in Zielona Góra. The main objective of the project was to develop pupils and volunteers in different areas during the extracurricular classes. Three volunteers supervised by a teacher helped during classes for children, increasing their skills in such areas as general knowledge, foreign languages, arts (art, music, theatre, technical classes) and sports. Volunteers’ work took place at school on working days, Monday to Friday, for 10 months. Volunteers who were at school worked in the first place with teachers working in common rooms. A volunteer helped the teacher – they worked together and in time volunteers were able to conduct some activities on their own (games with kids, creating arts works, sports, teaching songs in a foreign language, keeping the common room clean, taking care of kids while going to the playground/ swimming pool/ theatre/ cinema etc.). Each volunteer had a supervisor – a common room teacher. Additionally, one of the volunteers was working with a kindergarten teacher (taking care of 5- and 6- year-olds). The volunteer was helping the teacher in caring works such as preparing breakfast, going to the toilet, going for walks, helping kids with everyday activities, playing with kids and – as much as possible – conducting simple and short activities with kids (sports, singing songs, counting outs etc.). During the project, the volunteers were able to conduct certain workshops within the extracurricular classes conducted in the common room. Teachers responsible for given workshops co-operated with volunteers as long as they were there, which allowed volunteers to learn planning and preparing classes in co-operation with the teachers leading the workshops. During the whole year of work in the common rooms, the volunteers experienced and learned such working methods as: a show, storytelling, work with a book, learning from schoolbooks, discussion, introductory talk, problem solving, brainstorming, playroles, didactic games, case study, exchange of ideas and others, introduced by the teachers. Work in the team of the experienced teachers allowed observing their work, absorbing good patterns and informal learning of work with children. The volunteers were able to experience and learn team work – planning classes and special events such as Clean Up the World campaign; National Education Day; School’s 'Got Talent'; Week of Health; Inter-School Patriotic Song Festival (in collaboration with the City of Zielona Góra); Teddy Bear Day; Nativity play and a meeting for clergy (in cooperation with the local Churches); school’s Christmas Eve; Grandparents Day (in collaboration with the Adult Day Care Centre “Nestoria”); Carnival Ball; Day Camp in “Salomon”; the European Day; Retreats and Easter table; May 3rd Constitution Day; Children's Day; Summer Day Camp - "Sportingly - Healthily- Colourfully," and winter "Day Camp in Salomon” which took place in school more or less bi-monthly and involved the whole school as well as local community. The result of the project was learning based on own (positive and negative) experiences in the context of life and work. Involvement into searching new methods of activating kids encouraged creating solutions and facing the appearing problems. A direct connection with life situations focused learning on overcoming personal barriers as well as drawing conclusions from the activities.