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Small World Projects (SWP) was established this year
to provide MYP 1-3 students with a meaningful
Community and Service opportunity. We’ve begun
work on a series of projects designed to positively
engage students with the world around them and
people in their community. Through participating in
these projects, students will have a chance to take a
close look at what is going on around us, and then
ask the question ‘what can we do?’
We will select projects that provide us with positive
learning experiences and good opportunities for
service.
Projects scheduled for this school year include:
• UN World Food Programme awareness week.
• Inviting disadvantaged groups into school for
activities.
• Collaborating on climate projects with students
from around the world.
• Supporting Doctors without Borders.
• Assisting Team Peru
• Various other awareness campaigns.
SWP is a chance for students to get their voices
heard, to develop their own opinions on important
issues and to make and act on their own decisions.
Participants will be presented with problems that
need to be solved by utilizing their skills in new and
different situations. Most importantly, opportunities
will arise for students to learn about themselves and
how they relate to others from the service and learning
they experience.
The aims and goals of SWP:
• To use technology to collaborate effectively with
other students from around the world on the same
or similar projects.
• To present our findings or campaigns in creative
and unique ways
• To involve the whole CIS community in what we
are doing.
• To develop a sense of others.
• To become global citizens.
Our first project fell during the last week of November
when we hosted a UN World Food Programme
awareness week, with information and interactive
activities for the community. The World Food Programme
is the world’s largest humanitarian organization
reaching nearly 90 million people every year
with life saving supplies after conflict, disaster or
drought. We wanted to bring you their amazing
story, and the story of the people they help.
Small World Projects meets on Thursdays after school
15:00 – 16:00. Students earn Community and Service
for all the time they commit to SWP.
We will specialize in awareness campaigns, choosing
a cause or issue that deserves publicity, attention or
help. We will investigate and research it using a variety
of different methods, work to create an alternative
or solution and then decide upon an appropriate
way of presenting our information and discoveries.