Island School students have undertaken a wide range of impactful IGCSE Global Perspectives Team Projects
In the IGCSE Global perspectives Team Projects students the aim of the project is to engage and take action on an issue in our local community and in conjunction with many of our longstanding NGO partners:
Here are just a small selection of descriptions of successful student team projects from the past:
Students identified the importance of literacy as a global issue. The students research the importance of literacy and inequalities in literacy in different countries- highlighting cause and consequence for communities. They identified an organisation in Hong Kong that supports literacy through research and gained ideas about the importance of literacy.
Students organised a book drive and supporting promotional campaign to collect and deliver books for this organisation. |
Students identified the problem of poverty amongst the refugee community in Hong Kong- students conducted research on the ways in which such communities can be supported - through interviewing representatives from the NGO, finding out about the problems that refugee communities face in different societies and the ways in which they can be supported.
Students planned and implemented a series of drives to donate to the. refugee. community ( indirect action) |
Plan an activity day for local primary age children students identified issue of wellbeing in young people and importance of supporting educational attainment.
Students organised a community activity morning for local primary school/ kindergarden students. at a local community hall focusing on Englsh language learning and wellbeing activities. |
Wellbeing and Healthy eating- Students panned and delivered a cookery workshop with younger students and devised and social media campaign promoting Healthy Eating. Development a healthy eating campaign amongst primary and lower secondary students. Students devised recipes celebrating healthy recipes from different countries interviewing local restauranteurs and parents. Organised a series of cookery demonstrations for community- including year 7 students and parents.
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Students researched unsustainable clothing industry and considered some of the solutions to this issue around the world. The students set up a community clothes recycling campaign with REDRESS.
Event organised to promote and inform the community about the event. and to raise awareness about the un-sustainability of the fashion industry clothes were collected sorted and delivered and delivered to the charity |
Tree project conservation to support agricultural communities. Students developed an interest in the idea of how conservation is linked to agricultural communities and can be used to increase biodiversity, reduce soil erosion and improve the climate of an area.
Participating in a Tree conservation project on Lantau Island the students conducted some volunteer work at the project-maintaining saplings and watering interviewing local community residents then sharing their ideas and promoting the project through a social media campaign. |
Students were interest in supporting members of the. community and connected with an organisation called The Hub- which helps support young people with special learning needs. The Island school teams researched and devised a ICT skills lesson which focused on designing Christmas and Chinese New Year cards which could then be sold to raise money for the organisation
A series of workshop events were planned in school and a marketing campaign to promote and sell the cards. |
Students conducted a fundraising activity with the Nesbitt Centre. A HK based charity for people with learning difficulties. After researching about the problems of students at this centre students undertook an indirect action project to help support the centre financially by organising a design activity with the students and then producing and selling bookmarks.
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