of Service as Action initiatives

Anything that we/you have done before..

What went well ?

Why it is worth sharing about?

With a group of volunteers, I might organise a paint party, raise funds to buy art supplies, take the materials to the old age home , orphans and guide them how to make their own painting. I will enjoy what I am good at and improve my skills in painting too.

I will offer to help my teacher prepare her/his class bulletin board, I will offer to help people if they want to create a birthday invitation or posts or reels for their social media page

Contact Ms Nilofer in Room G6 for more details.

-Stefina Catherine M5

-Parisha Narang DP

-Thoshan Donthamsetty DP

-Matin Tangu M3

-Deyaan Puridi M3

All students can join in.

The teacher supervisor Ms. Shelley.

Contact any of the above for more details

Come up a plan, organise service initiatives connected to your house theme

2. Talk to Ms Nilofer to clarify any doubts

3. Get approval from the MYP service coordinator Ms. Nilofer and Secondary Principal Ms Manpreet

-Create opportunities to interact with people from other cultures.

-Find ways to enable a cultural exchange.

-Learn a language that is I do not know.

-Teach my language to others who might be interested.

-Be curious and want to learn about the cultural beliefs and traditions of others

-Be willing to share about your own culture.

-Participate in intercultural discussions with an open mind. Be willing to have educated, objective and civilised discussions to try and understand others perspective.

-Mutual respect

Do not hesitate to voice out your idea or seek advice from people who many know more than you.

Brainstorm and try to sell your idea to your team.

With a team, you can!

Even if others think it is a lousy idea, do not give up on your idea. You might find other ways to make it happen.

The 7 Learning Outcomes are:

1. Become more aware of your own strengths and areas for growth 

❖ Your SA activity allows you to learn something new about yourself – that you are good at something or that you need to work on specific character traits more.

❖ If you gain a new skill, you meet another learning outcome: undertaking challenges that develop new skills. 

2. Undertake challenges that develop new skills 

❖ You are facing challenges when completing your task. 

❖ During the activity you plan to develop new skills for yourself. 

3. Discuss, evaluate and plan activity initiated by you 

❖ You initiate the activity and go with the idea for SA to your supervisor and your fellow students if you want to work in a team or pair. 

❖ You take part in a discussion about the activity before, during planning it or when it was necessary to evaluate it. 

❖ You evaluate the project – when you see that something has to be changed, you modify the plan of the activity. 

❖ You evaluate the project in the form of a reflection after an activity – write what you would change next time in case of doing the same experience once again. 

❖ You play a very active role when planning the activity. 

4. Persevere in action 

❖ You are persistent in the action, disregarding difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement. 

❖ What's more, according to your grade, you need to do your activity by at least the minimum number of hours G6 students are required to do at least 6 hours of the SA experience which meets “perseverance” requirement; G7 students are required to do at least 6 hours in the SA experience which meets “perseverance” requirement; G8 students are required to do at least 7 hours in the SA experience which meets “perseverance” requirement; G9 students are required to do at least 8 hours in the SA experience which meets “perseverance” requirement; G10 students are required to do at least 9 hours in the SA experience which meets “perseverance” requirement; Length (6-9 hours or more) of a single SA experience can be spread into regular activities (ex. once a week one hour) or can be done during one long activity (ex. helping in a city's voluntary service for 6 hours at once). “Hour” means 60 minutes. 

5. Work collaboratively with others 

❖ You work on the project in a team or pair. You shared responsibilities and helped each other to achieve the activity's purpose. 

6. Develop international mindedness through 

- global engagement, 

- multilingualism and 

- intercultural understanding 

❖ The project has a global range. 

❖ In your activity you could show what activities similar to yours look like in other countries. 

❖ You can show that your project also influences other country/ies. 

❖ Your activity teaches others about another culture/country (ex. music, literature, theatre, architecture, clothes, lifestyle, history) or problems around the world. 

❖ You are in touch with a student studying in another country who does a similar project in her/his school or you are doing an international activity with her/him. 

❖ You cooperate with an international organisation that helps people from various countries. 

❖ You are learning a totally new language for you when doing a project (the language that you have never learnt). 

❖ When doing your project, you are using a foreign language to communicate. 

❖ Your activity shows that education does not have borders. 

❖ You are engaged with a global issue at local, national or international level. 

❖ Using English is NOT meeting this outcome. 

❖ Using French if you are a French person is NOT meeting this outcome. 

❖ Doing a project for or with our international school community is NOT meeting this outcome. 

7. Consider the ethical implications of your actions 

❖ You understand how your actions affected yourself, the community or environment. 

❖ You understand that the reason for this activity is to help the community/people/person in a real need. 

❖ You consider in an ethical way what you did properly in this activity and what you did not. 

Based on: Further guidance for developing MYP Service as Action. 

Reference excerpt— MYP: From principles into practice, International Baccalaureate

Service as Action in the MYP in different modes of teaching and learning, 

International Baccalaureate. 

Have you learnt a new skill when challenged when doing your project? 

Here you have some examples of possibly new skills: 

• writing skills 

• critical thinking 

• being a leader 

• negotiating ideas and knowledge 

• finding the proper correct information 

• taking effective notes during meetings 

• using ''social media networks appropriately to build and develop relationships'' 

• Delegating and sharing ''responsibility for decision-making''

• Managing and resolving conflict 

• Listening ''actively to other perspectives and ideas'' 

• Encouraging ''others to contribute'' 

• Practising "strategies to overcome impulsiveness and anger" 

• Practising "strategies to prevent and eliminate bullying" 

• Practising "strategies to reduce stress and anxiety" 

• Considering "ideas from multiple perspectives" Based on: ATL list on Managebac.com. 

Some examples of strengths or areas for development 

that you can discover when doing your project: 

• time management 

• planning, organising your work 

• controlling emotions 

• planning teamwork, dividing responsibilities when working with friends 

• looking for solutions with your team members 

• concentration 

• easy to be distracted by different things (a phone, games, music, a computer, the Internet etc.) 

• being trustworthy or not 

• being a leader or not 

• being courageous or not 

• being confident or not 

• being persistent or not 

• having empathy