Our College Community Action opportunities sit alongside our schoolwide charity initiatives and fall under our Service Engagement Programme. Our Community Action opportunities were, through necessity, scaled down for the academic year 2021-22 as we start to rebuild momentum in the wake of the pandemic. We were delighted that over 100 pupils from Years 10-13 were engaged in volunteering in the local area during the Michaelmas and Lent terms. Pupils volunteered at a number of environmental projects as well as local primary schools where they engaged in one to one to activities with the pupils on a weekly basis. We are very grateful to these placements for allowing our pupils to be with them during this uncertain year. The culmination of our Community Action programme was our July 2022 Service Day. We saw this occasion as an opportunity to relaunch our Community Action programme looking ahead to the academic year 2022-23. This was a great success and over 200 of our older pupils spent the whole day out of school at one of ten primary schools, five care homes, three food bank related placements and six environmental projects.
“I wanted to say thank you to yourselves and the pupils who came along to the day in Dulwich Wood on July 1st. Both myself and lead volunteer were so impressed by how enthusiastic, engaged and helpful the group was. It really was a pleasure to meet them and to get to know them a little.”
An environmental placement
“The pupils acted as classroom assistants and some did some admin tasks in the school office, which went down very well. They were great about getting on with it and working positively”
A local primary school
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