Dover Campus Infant School Service overview
Service is an integral part of a UWC education. From K1 to Grade 12, students learn to show concern for their environment and to care for people around them. Students participate in local and global service projects at an age-appropriate level. Every student is encouraged to be involved in some way, and to take his or her service commitments seriously.
At every age level, curriculum links are made between service and the Units of Study. For detailed information please visit our Learning website pages:
In the Infant School, students are encouraged to reflect on their service experiences. These reflections are often verbal and are documented by the teacher.
College Service
This service takes place on campus and can involve working with students from other parts of the College or looking after classmates as part of designated responsibilities. It can also mean being involved in one-off or on-going projects that occur on days like UWC Day.
Local Service
Infant School children participate in the Local Service programme, which involves people from the wider Singaporean community.
In K1, students explore the Child's Right to Play and connect this to designing play experiences for children from the local preschool for disadvantaged children, Child at Street 11. Students from Child at Street 11 interact with K1 students over four Discovery Time sessions, ensuring that children have opportunities to develop relationships over a number of weeks. For each visit, one K1 class acts as the "host" and partners up with guest students to explain activities and guide their experience in the Pod or outdoor areas. Children practice kindness, patience and responsibility with their new friends.
In K2 students are encouraged to consider ways they can help elderly members of our local community. Each year theytake part in a 'Shoe Box Appeal', which involves students doing chores at home to raise enough money to purchase food and other essential items which are packed into shoe boxes and presented to elderly residents from local care homes. The K2 students and their parents host a Chinese New Year afternoon tea in school during which the children entertain their elderly guest and present their gifts. Please click here to view a video of the Shoe Box Afternoon Tea.
In Grade 1, students are encouraged to consider ways they can help elderly members of our local community. Once a term, each of the five Grade 1 classes visits the Lion's Befrienders to socialise and form relationships with elderly in the Ghim Moh community. Emphasis is placed on reciprocity: engaging in Service benefits us as well as our partners as we learn from them and broaden our perspectives and understanding of the world.
Global Concern
Global Concerns (GC) are service projects which take place outside Singapore, and form the third tier of UWCSEA's Service Programme. Infant students support 'Mumbai Mobile Crèches' (MMC), an NGO-run programme that supplies comprehensive day care, health services and schooling for the children of construction workers in Mumbai, meeting their emotional, physical, cognitive and social needs. Embedding awareness of MMC into the curriculum has resulted in a heightened awareness amongst the students and subsequently an increase in the number of personal fund-raising initiatives.
Grade 1 students support two Global Concerns projects, 'Mumbai Mobile Crèches' and ACRES (Animal Concerns Research & Education Society).
The Grade 1 involvement in ACRES is linked to the Unit Of Study “Animal Habitats” when the students learn about mankind’s responsibility towards animals and their habitats. Events, such as presentations from ACRES volunteers and High School students involved in the PAW (Promoting Animal Welfare) GC, heighten the students awareness and show them the best way to take appropriate action.
The Infant School community is involved in fundraising activities, such as their sponsored ‘danceathon’ at their G1 Sleepover. Embedding awareness of ACRES and MMC into the curriculum has resulted in a heightened awareness amongst the students and subsequently an increase in the number of personal fund-raising initiatives. This often means that a student decides to forgo birthday presents from friends and family who attend their birthday party and ask for donations to either of the GC’s instead.
Please visit the Primary School Service microsite for more detailed information.