Community Education

In NYGH, SPICE stands for Serving People with Innovation, Commitment and Empathy. Through the 4-year Community Education-SPICE Programme, we hope to deepen the students’ understanding of the community’s needs. In their interactions with the community, we hope the students will learn to understand different perspectives and treat others with humility and respect. When working in groups to design, plan and implement community-based projects, we hope the students will be equipped with project management skills such as time management, teamwork and conflict management. By working with Community Partners to address the community’s needs, we hope the students will tap on their learning from their academic subjects to further develop creative and critical thinking skills. 

The Community Education-SPICE programme in NYGH follows a progressive approach with highlighted focus of social emotional competencies and e21cc:

Secondary 1

• Focus: Serving People with Empathy

• Programme: Community-based visits (as part of the Secondary 1 Fusion Curriculum)

• Focus of Social-Emotional Competencies and  e21cc: 

  • Self-awareness

  • Social awareness

Secondary 2

• Focus: Serving People with Commitment and Empathy

• Programme: Sustained engagement and collaboration with Community Partners

• Focus of Social-Emotional Competencies and  e21cc: 

  • Communication

  • Collaboration

  • Information Skills

Secondary 3

• Focus: Serving People with Innovation, Commitment and Empathy

• Programmes: Student Inquiry Assignment – Service-Learning Project (Local), CNY Hamper Donation Drive

• Focus of Social-Emotional Competencies and  e21cc: 

  • Critical, Adaptive and Inventive Thinking

Secondary 4

• Focus: Serving People with Innovation, Commitment and Empathy (leadership)

• Programmes: Independent Service-Learning Project, Service-Learning Project (Overseas), CCA-Community Partnership

• Focus of Social-Emotional Competencies and  e21cc: 

  • Civic, Global and Cross-Cultural Literacy 

Through this progressive approach, we hope to provide the students with different platforms to learn more about the community’s needs. By leveraging on their Character Strengths, we would like to see students deepen their understanding of the Power of Me through their personal contributions to the community. We hope that the Community Education-SPICE programme will build on the students’ understanding of the servant-leadership model. In this way, they will also be able to better understand the Power of Community, even more so since the students can reflect on how their contributions can make a difference to the lives of others within the wider community. We hope the students will also learn to manage setbacks and challenges they may face when serving the community, thus expanding their Power of Yet.