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Volunteers Packing Food

Community Service Program

 

KGV has a long history of engaging in Community Service. In recent years, we have reflected on how we do this and have come up with a new and refined vision.

 

Vision for Service

Creating sustainable partnerships that have reciprocal benefits within our community. Fostering the desire, confidence and ability to make a difference.

 

We want students to 

• Become effective project managers

• Use design thinking to solve problems

• Embrace responsibility and appreciate the consequence of actions

• Develop the ability to empathise with others

• Be able to communicate and connect with others

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We know students will be successful when...

• They develop and agree on success criteria with community links

• They make informed future choices on principled action

• The inquiry cycle is used to reflect on the impact of their work

• We create sustainable links with community groups

• They can demonstrate an ability to persevere in ‘action’ 
 

At the forefront of this, we have a senior student Community Service committee. The group of young leaders research, plan and coordinate multiple service projects in the local community collaborating with various NGOs.

 

Projects have included:

  • English Teaching programs

  • Buddy reading programs

  • Refugee Art classes

  • Hospital Visits

  • Homeless and Subdivided flats support

  • Special Education support

 

To help facilitate student led initiatives and improve student contact with NGO’s, KGV is continuing its partnership with Social Career (socialcareer.org), a new innovative volunteer platform that offers many volunteer opportunities to our students, giving them more opportunities to get involved in community engagement. For a quick overview, please see an introductory video below. 

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The school is able to track each student's volunteer activities with the Social Career platform, as well as promote KGV Student Led initiatives. Every time students apply for a new volunteer opportunity on the platform, parents/guardians will also receive an email from Social Career, notifying of the volunteer job details.

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