Service Learning at UWC Maastricht

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P a g e 2 Year 4 students get started on their litter clean-up. “It was a great experience and I really want to do this again.” Ehmid Ashrif, year 12 Year 7 international fair stalls Hands-on jobs for years 1 and 4 “I thought it was going to be boring, but then I realized it was awesome!” said Betty Akinyi (year 12) when asked what she thought of helping year 1 students planting and gardening. They were at Formido (a hardware shop near the school), buying supplies to plant trees and flowers around the school campus. While the supervising year 12s were paying for the supplies, a year 1 student known as „Little Superman‟ picked up a bag of soil and carried it back to school all by himself. Also helping the environment were the year 4s, who spent time cleaning up litter on and around the school campus. Just before they began, representatives from the Gemeente made sure that there were no syringes, pieces of glass, or any other dangerous substances that the Learning about our planet Service Learning Day for years 2 and 3 was based on cooperation between primary students and year 12 students at UWC Maastricht. The two primary year levels learnt about the different regions of our planet. Year 2 learned International π’s “Children love all the shiny and unusual stuff” - Ms Blain, Art teacher. Year 8 students participated in a project involving circles based on Bharti Kher (an Indian artist) artworks, using recycled materials. In the afternoon they built circular teepees. The S e r v i c e L e a r n i n g a t U W C M a a s t r i c h t about the Arctic region with help of Luize Eihmane, who stated, “I really like this project; I love the little kids and helping their learning.” While year 2 was being taught about the cold regions of the world, year 3 was learning about the students‟ art pieces will be exhibited outside the Art room, most likely on the bridge in the College atrium. They also had a quiz, the aim of which was to learn as many digits of pi as they could. Meanwhile, “I love it!” were the words that Beba Cibralic (year 12) used to students could accidentally pick up. The year group was split up into five smaller groups, each of which took a different part of the neighborhood. When asked, one young student said that she had learned that “there are many disgusting people on earth” and that “it‟s important to keep our planet clean.” Federico Spera and Lawrence Shehata, year warm and humid regions and tropical rainforests, helped by Pumla Maswanganyi and Ehmid Ashrif. Ehmid thought that “It was a great experience and I really want to do this again.” Mathieu Dreano, year 12 describe the mini international fair organised by Year 7. The students set up small stalls to help local Dutch children of the same age understand different cultures better by introducing them to their country‟s food, hosting workshops and talking to them. Federico Spera, year 12
After a long trek... After a long trek, the environment changed from roads and cars to an old building surrounded by trees and nature. The Jerusalem service learning project takes place near the Hoge Hotelschool Maastricht, at an old castle garden. Years 5, 6 and 9 were involved in this project. Mr Richard Hine stated, “…real science is not taught in classrooms, but in the real The Margraten Cemetery is a war memorial to the American soldiers who gave their lives in WWll. This burial ground is the resting place of 8301 soldiers. On Service Learning Day, year 10 took a visit to the Margraten Memorial Cemetery, guided by Mr Stadler, the cemetery superintendent. world,” as he took the year 9s out to collect soil samples and make mappings of the site in order to see which places had superior soil to plant flowers in. Years 5 and 6 cheerfully cleaned up branches, cut down trees and planted flowers in order to make the garden a beautiful place yet again. Year 12 student Franky G. Aritz stated, “Working with these kids not A visit to our past We began our day with a Mama Alice is an organisation in Peru with a very specific aim: to help poor children left on the streets. “Many of them have no place to go to, they have no family and no home”, says Ms Best, the coordinator, “and the situation in Peru is the same as in other countries in Latin America.” Today year 12 students translated the Mama Alice organisation lovely breakfast and a talk by Vjjay, Hannah, Natalia, and Hussein, our Service Learning Ambassadors and year 12 helpers. The day continued with speeches from Mr Stadler, Mr Tonnaer and Mr Roijen. The year 10s then went to the Margraten Cemetery where they viewed the graves, the chapel and the monument. They also Mama Alice saves Peru brochure into Spanish and English. “We are learning to interact with each other without getting annoyed,” said Katja. So what is written in the brochure? This paper contains an explanation of what the project is about. The brochure also encourages people to donate money to help the Peruvian children, only teaches them how to be responsible, but also teaches them how to stabilise the environment”. The students and staff members working at this project are all interested in participating in another service learning day in the future. PJ Stevens, Year 12 visited the grave of Edward J. Konefal, which has been adopted by UWC Maastricht. Each student placed a flower in the vase on his grave. The experience was very touching and memorable for the students. As Mr Stadler said, “Studying history is important but not enough. You have to feel it, experience it.” Sophie Rottenberg, Illeana Pirozzi, and Dominique Naude, year 10 because the fact is that even 10 euro is enough to allow a child to go to school for one year. After the translation is completed, our students will distribute it and sell small Latin American doll key chains to aid the organisation. Ales Varabyou, year 12 P a g e 3 Jerusalem...the site of much hard work by years 5, 6, 9 and 12. “In memory of the honor and the sacrifices which hallow this soil.” These key chains will be sold to aid the Mama Alice organisation.
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