Across all stages of the school, we promote service learning as an essential part of the IA student profile. Through these projects, students particularly develop the attributes of solidarity, integrity, open-mindedness and reflection, helping them to understand other realities and to act responsibly within their community and the wider world.Thanks to the leadership of the CAS project within the Diploma Programme, linked to the Chumvi project, and the collaboration of the Secondary PAS project, a wide range of charitable initiatives have been driven with the involvement of the entire school community. Lower Secondary and Baccalaureate students actively took part in selling charity raffle tickets, while families contributed by donating gifts for the raffle hampers and supporting the sale of second-hand uniforms promoted by the PAS project. In addition, during the Christmas Fair, CAS students led workshops and charitable activities, and the whole school community showed strong support at the charity market. These actions were further complemented by a clothing collection for people in need through Hospital Infanta Leonor.As a result of all these initiatives, students were enriched by shared experiences such as jointly singing Christmas carols with the Chumvi school, and more than €6,300 were raised, the highest amount achieved to date, which will be entirely allocated to this educational project.Along the same lines of Taking Action, and as previously shared in an earlier newsletter, Year 6 Primary students, as part of their unit of inquiry, demonstrated that learning also translates into action and commitment to the community by carrying out various initiatives to support care homes for the elderly, the Food Bank, and people experiencing loneliness.All these initiatives stem from real-life situations that students encounter first-hand, thanks to direct contact with the coordinators of each project.Real experiences that turn learning into action and our students into true agents of change.Marta Martínez.Principal.
