Service as Action
Service: A voluntary action performed to satisfy or solve a need or issue in a community
Action: The process of doing something
What is Service as Action?
At West Sound Academy we want our students to be active members of the local and global community, who demonstrate personal commitment to services that make a difference to the lives of others and the environment.
Service as Action will help you to become aware of your roles and responsibilities as members of communities.
The program requires you to take an active part in the community in which you live.
How action will look is different from student to student and from context to context.
Service as Action might be embedded into some of the different units you complete in class but usually are fulfilled through stand-alone activities.
Service as Action Overview Video
Examples include:
- Tutoring peers in various subjects
- Organize and offer a story hour for younger children once a week at the local library
- At KiDiMu, providing short lessons about theatre, visual art, or music on Saturdays
- Organizing or participating in fundraising activities for a charity
- Organizing or participating in a beach clean-up
- Creating a poster to help raise awareness for people to reduce their water waste
Creating a poster to help raise awareness for an international social justice issue
- Run an after-school club
- Volunteer at cultural events
