A Dover  Student-Led Activity (SLA)  is a club, society or activity taking place in the UWCSEA Dover campus that seeks to enrich and engage students in grades 9-12, that is registered with the Student-Led Activities Management (SLAW) group.  The SLA program seeks to accomplish the key objectives of fostering student leadership, encouraging autonomy and independent exploration of ideas, and bringing value to as many students as possible, especially for skills and knowledge relevant to the futures of SLAs. 

The minimum requirement for all active SLAs to fulfill are: 

1. Having at least 8 members, excluding leaders 

2. Having a maximum of three student leaders 

3. Involving a teacher supervisor, with a fixed venue

4. Taking regular attendance, with no less than 50% of possible sessions being conducted 

5. Having a specific activity focus and action plan (renewed every year)

*exceptions are on a case-by-case basis, and are typically only granted for Teacher-Led Activity

Step 1 - Fill out the New Activity Proposal Form, which will provide SLAW and the Activities Office with all necessary information about your activity 

Step 2 -  After the first round of approval, a SLAW planning document will be forwarded to you to complete

Step 3 - After the completion of the planning document, you may have to come in to give a live pitch/engage in discourse with a SLAW expert to further develop your activity plan

Step 4 - If your activity passes through these stages, it will receive a conditional offer of continuation lasting for approximately one season, where you will be required to achieve the minimum requirements as shown above 

Step 5 - After accepting the conditional offer,  student leaders will be required to attend Leadership and Safeguarding Training.

Step 6 - Once approved, activities will be registered on CIMS and updated on the Activities website.

*The entire process will take 4 – 6 weeks (excluding term breaks) before the next sign-up dates. Please refer to the Activities Season Calendar. However, expect a buffer time of two weeks before any official acceptance, and this is expected to reset if there are any iterations in your proposal

1. Get a teacher supervisor to supervise the activity.

2. Proposed fees, costs, and budgeting, if any - typically, SLAs are intentioned to be nonprofit and free for students

3. Propose a Day, Time, Venue, and Teacher Supervisor

4. Activity description

5. Link to a cover photo for the activity

6. Fill in Activities Information Planning Sheet

All of this information should be declared on the New Activity Proposal Form

For further information, please contact SLAW at doverslaw@gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg and Dover Activities at dover_activities@gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg 

Governance and Transparency:

• Clear targets for seasons and the academic year

• Detailed planning with clear session structure and content

Authentic Engagement:

• Society approach is engaging rather than passive

• A yearly/seasonal itinerary or plan 

Wider Impact:

• Does the society proposed have an interdisciplinary field/niche field

• Can the society be sustained while ensuring new content

• Does the society have potential to hold events/make wider impact