Cultivate Social Responsibility by Learning through Experience

by BIS / 2020.06.10 Wednesday / Published in news & event

As the only one IB continuum International School in Wuxi, Boston International School adheres to the IB principal which gives much attention to develop students’ awareness of social responsibility and community service throughout their student life.

Every year, our PYP, MYP and DP students will spontaneous organize lots of charity and community service events, which reflects their IB learner profiles of Principled, Open-minded, Caring and Reflective.

During the past week, our elementary students and secondary students have both organized events that showed their sense of global citizenship.

Elementary ‘Fun Run’ Charitable Donation

On June 5th and June 8th, elemantary students from PKG to Grade 5 held a meaningful Charitable Donation Activity. By donating education materials and running around the oval, our young learners showed their strong willing to help and support their peers in a pool village of Qinhai Province.

The activity is initiated and organized by G5 students Nolan and Ray with support by P5 homeroom teachers. All the donation materials collected will be distributed to a school located in a pool village of Qinhai Province to help the 24 students via Red Cross Society of China in Xinwu district.

To encourage students furtherly, Ms. Ji Ming, Deputy Head of Xinwu District Red Cross Society visited BIS and joined in the activity personally, she awarded a donation certificate to appreciate and encourage students for their contribution to social charity. She said:” Contribution to charity is no matter how big, kindness to help and to be helped will help students grow and gain happiness.”

Plesstic Exhibition

BIS entrepreneurship students have formed a business organization which is categorized as a social enterprise. In today’s business environment, market, consumers and employees place a huge preference with businesses that prioritize corporate social responsibility (CSR). The BIS student-led business has put a lot of time and profits on CSR. This time they spent weeks on planning this ‘Plesstic’ exhibition. As a social enterprise, they are willing to reinvest profits in environmental protection and sustainability of the Earth. It sounds big but they started with the first step with this exhibition to raise students’ and teachers’ awareness of less plastic waste.

All the plastic waste they collected is from the school campus or students and teachers’ households. The amount of plastic was big enough to let us build a plastic ocean, plastic dresses, plastic warning board and plastic wall. The students and teachers joined fun activities such as swimming in the plastic ocean and trying on the plastic dresses. We hope the impact of plastic waste would warn everyone to act immediately to produce one less piece of plastic. Start from today.

Cultivate Social Responsibility by Learning through Experience

Cultivate Social Responsibility by Learning through Experience

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