Service

Sustainable Development is a key standard of our Service Programme, whether at college, local or global level, as we recognise that this is an area of our Learning Programme where we have perhaps the greatest opportunity to act as well as learn to shape a better world.

There are many examples from Primary to High where we engage with this UN pledge; we have chosen to highlight those which demonstrate approaches that are particularly unique, meaningful or deliberately integrated with the other the 4 UN pledges or parts of our Learning Programme.

See the Environment Section of our GC site for more information on all the GC's that have a particular Planet Focus.

Contact nhu@uwcsea.edu.sg if you want to share other good practice here.

ACRES (Dover) is the Grade 1 adopted Global Concern linked to the Unit Of Study “Extinction is Forever” when the students learn about mankind’s responsibility towards animals and their habitats. Events, such as presentations from ACRES volunteers and High School students involved in the PAW (Promoting Animal Welfare) GC, heighten the students awareness and show them the best way to take appropriate action.

Read about other GCs committed to Biodiversity conservation on our Global Concerns site.

Campus Gardeners (Dover) is a college service that works closely with our Landscape department. Their work includes construction of butterfly gardens and planting of indigenous flowering plants to deliberately increase biodiversity on campus.

UWCSEA Rainforest Restoration Project (East & Dover) is a College Service and Global Concern that works for the conservation of indigenous tree species on campus, in the community and further afield.

Stories on Biodiversity

Lighting a Billion Lives (Dover) is Global Concern that links Planet to People - encouraging renewable energy generation as a means of targeting poverty alleviation. The GC was recently supported by a donation through our Carbon Offset Programme. We hope to support similar de-carbonisation projects through this scheme in coming years.

Stories on Energy

Fresh Fruit Fridays (East) is a local service that provides fruit for migrant workers in Singapore. They have linked with the Campus gardening groups to provide a worthy outlet for our campus produce and are a good way of donating often excess fruit from households to those in need - reduce waste and improving nutrition for the poorest in our community.

Focus on Food...coming soon

• Green Fingers (East) is a College Service that works at 'greening' events to reduce waste. This service grew out of a IGCSE Global Perspectives Critical challenge Project and works with partner organisation the Tzu Chi Foundation. Family Festival and Careers Fairs have been notable successes, helping to shift the College towards a Zero-Waste culture.
• LEAF GC (Dover) has many environmental initiatives but along reducing waste has been their main theme in recent years. They have worked closely with Sodexo to significantly reduce the amount of disposables used in the canteen and at events. LEAF has no partner NGO like other Global Concerns but serve to strengthen the environmental performance of all GC activities at Dover, putting the Sustainable in Sustainable Development.
• Green Campus (Dover) is a College Service that has been managing and reducing recyclable waste on campus for over 10 years. This is one of the few services on campus where all shirt colours work together every week throughout the year to further our ambition to make environmental stewardship a key part of our learning. Green Campus' recycling systems has been studied by visiting schools and are constantly improving collection.
• The Wasters (East) is a new Environmental Activism group in 2018. The group are working out of the Art Department to engage our community in the Zero Waste issue. They hope to use the power of art to challenge our behaviours. Watch out for stories below soon!

Stories on Waste

See 'Water' in our Academics section for an example of how a Water Warriors GC connects the curriculum and college service.