Planned and initiated activities

Service

This week there is a post from one of our grade 12 students about some service activities.  Please see the post below this.  Thank you to Alexandra for putting that together.

In the post you can read about how some students planned and initiated a project to help homeless people.  She also writes about a woman who started a facebook group at Christmas to give presents to people with low incomes.

Sometimes students find it difficult to think about how to start their own projects.  It doesn't have to be a completely new idea or organisation.  You can decided to support an established group but come up with your own plan or how to fund raise or get people involved in some other way. Many students in grade 12 have been part of Project Outreach and the Hunger Project.  Within that activity some students have planned a presentation to give to the grade 10 students about what they achieved.  Not everyone in the group can say that they met the 'planned and initiated  and activitey' outcome.  It depends on what you did as part of the group.

SIS is starting a project to train teachers and help children in Nepal. Whilst this project will be initiated by the school it is possible for CAS students plan and initiate their own activities to support this project.  More information about this  project will be coming soon.

Of course you can plan and initiate activities that are not 'service'.  Perhaps a group to train for one of the many public runs that occur around Stockholm.  Or organise a group to go hiking or walking on a regular basis.

In the past we have had a knitting group in the school.  But perhaps you have another 'creative' idea. Currently one group organises regular jam sessions for budding musicians.

The point of planning and initiating is that you see a 'need' - whether it is for a service, action or a to be creative - and you think of a way to meet that need through a CAS activity.