{"id":7756,"date":"2019-08-25T07:46:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T07:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/?p=7756"},"modified":"2021-05-27T03:25:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T03:25:37","slug":"community-action-services-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/blog\/community-action-services-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Action Services at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Written by Lenard Murray<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Executive Head of Schools<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10613\" src=\"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SIS-Semarang-Mr-Len-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>&#8220;The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.&#8221; \u2013 Coretta Scott King.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At SIS Group of Schools our Mission states; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To spark curiosity and inquiry while developing values and 21st century skills. We prioritise learners and personalise learning \u201c<\/span><b>to make the world a better place.\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We believe that by succeeding with the first part of our mission then our students will naturally grow up to be global citizens committed to making our world a better place.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7757 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/SIS-Semarang-Community-Action-Services-at-Work.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/SIS-Semarang-Community-Action-Services-at-Work.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/SIS-Semarang-Community-Action-Services-at-Work-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/SIS-Semarang-Community-Action-Services-at-Work-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/SIS-Semarang-Community-Action-Services-at-Work-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">By getting students involved we can help\u00a0 our communities in many ways. Community service isn&#8217;t about only helping the impoverished. Helping the less fortunate is a good virtue but there are also many things to be done in the community and people who need our help as well.\u00a0 We need to recognize all areas and do what we can to establish service in as many ways as possible and involve students in this from a very young age, so later is becomes second nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CAS (Creativity Action Services) is prevalent in SIS Junior Colleges for IB and Cambridge A level as well. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CAS enables students to improve their personal and interpersonal development by learning by experience. It provides opportunities for self-determination and collaboration with others, promoting a sense of attainment and pleasure from their work. At the same time, CAS is an important neutralization of academic pressures.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A good CAS programme should have rigour, be gratifying and take students on a journey which they can reflect upon. Each student begins at a different\u00a0 point, and consequently will have different targets and requirements. Nevertheless, for many, involvement in CAS activities can be extremely rewarding and life changing. When students get a taste of what it feels like to do social service at a young age, it usually is something that they will be involved in for the rest of their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Over the years SIS students have been deeply involved in helping the community, each school doing different but all dedicated in acts of kindness and delivering support. From Medical Missions to building homes for Habitat for Humanity, SIS students have shown the commitment to help others. Collaboration between SIS schools and students is also key. By different SIS schools joining forces, students, teachers, leaders and parents were able to use the power of the group to collaborate and help on a larger scale for the tsunami in Ache and last year the devastating earthquake in Palu. SIS Students are always at the forefront to ensure that our community service is active and succeeds in its endeavours.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Please read further on the benefits of students being involved in community service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.prepscholar.com\/benefits-of-community-service\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/blog.prepscholar.com\/benefits-of-community-service<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.&#8221; \u2013 Coretta Scott King.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56,57,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-faculty-admin-writing","category-sis-semarang-blog-posts"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8687,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions\/8687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-semarang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}