Category: Service Learning

Yr 7 Service Learning

September 10, 2020

Reporting for duty!  Cleaning St Nicolas church in Duncraig.

(l – r)

  1. Hamish Ineson
  2. Jacob Atkinson
  3. Daniel Nievelstein
  4. Joshwa Ruiz
  5. Patrick Quin (front centre)

 

ADVENTURE AWAITS

February 4, 2020

Our very successful St Stephen’s Global Tour to Bethany Home, Malaysia will run again in October for our Year 11s. This extraordinary tour offers students a chance to work with special needs students and young adults at Bethany Home, and includes the opportunity to explore Kuala Lumpur and Penang Island. Expressions of interest are now open. Students and parents from both campuses are invited to an information evening to find out more.

Bethany Home Information Evening
Location: Community Room, Duncraig campus
Date: Monday 10 February
Time: 6.45pm
Please contact Dr Mark Fielding for enquiries at mark.fielding@ststephens.wa.edu.au.

 

T4 Service Learning

November 7, 2019

Today T4, as part of their Service Learning, visited St Nicholas Church at Duncraig and undertook light cleaning and gardening duties under the supervision of Marty Ashton.

St Nicholas parish are an inclusive community.  St Stephen’s students volunteer their time to help this community by lightly cleaning the parish.

 

 

 

 

TS1 Homeroom Service Learning

August 28, 2019

As part of St Stephen’s School Service Learning initiative, TS 1 hit the beach at Pinnaroo Point to pick up rubbish as a whole Homeroom to help make a difference to the local environment.  Homeroom teachers Stefani Ntoumenopoulos and Andre Bourgault organised the clean up with assistance from Keep Australia Beautiful and their Adopt-a-Spot Program. It is wonderful to see young people, who really care about their environment, selflessly giving of their time to make a difference along our beautiful coastline.

Andre Bourgault
Teacher – Music
The Arts

Service Learning at Neil Hawkins Park

August 15, 2019

Today the T2 home room went on a service learning trip to Neil Hawkins Park to work with Kevin McCloud from the Friends of Yellagonga (FOY). The task was to rehabilitate a section of the parklands around the lake. The FOY in a community based organisation who aim is to protect and rehabilitate the local wetland. The students were able to assist in this by planting many native species back into a degraded section of the park. We were grateful to Kevin and the FOY in enabling the students to have this service learning opportunity and we hope that the students gained some confidence to know that they have the capacity to help our communities no matter what age they are and that the experience will help them engage more easily with a service mindset. The FoY have a face book page (friends of yellagonga regional park inc)  and you can join the group to find about their activities, it’s a great family opportunity to help out in our local community.”

Mr Biddle and Ms Roberts

GIVING IS THE GREATEST ACT OF GRACE

August 8, 2019

St Stephen’s School’s Service Learning program spread its wings even further this week with the launch of the brand-new Joondalup Food Cart service – a St Stephen’s initiative in partnership with Lakeside Joondalup, Rotary and for the benefit of UnitingCare West. The cart will be manned by volunteers, including our staff and students, to pick up unsold food from cafes and food outlets at Lakeside Joondalup to go to those in need through UnitingCare West Merriwa. Congrats to all involved! If you have always wanted to volunteer but don’t know where to start, visit our new-look Volunteers website where our Volunteers team can match you with a giving opportunity to suit your needs.

See more at volunteer.ststephens.wa.edu.au.

SCHOOL SLEEP OUT

May 31, 2019

School students will swap their school bags for sleeping bags later this year for the annual Anglicare School Sleep out. Although St Stephen’s isn’t part of the Anglican Schools Commission, Anglicare were impressed by our commitment to giving back through our Service Learning arm that they extended the invitation for our community to experience sleeping rough for one night, to see how the more than 9000 West Australians who are homeless live. If you’re interested in forming or joining a St Stephen’s School team, go to www.anglicarewaschoolsleepout.org.au.

Our School team page is at: https://anglicarewaschoolsleepout.org.au/teamststephens

School of Thought

May 16, 2019

A group of students and staff from Carramar and Duncraig recently made their on-air radio debuts on 89.7FM! They were absolute naturals as they took to the airwaves, chatting about their roles as leaders, different programs offered at School and important subjects they’ve learnt about in class.

Service Learning – Rocky Bay

May 8, 2019

Students from A5 spent a lovely lunch in February with the clients from Rocky Bay.  Students engaged with the clients by playing cricket, taking a lovely walk and even chasing them around the play area at Carine.

The students from A5 spent time cooking a barbecue lunch for the residents before everyone returned to school, happy and well fed.  It was a pleasure to see our students participate in such a fantastic service learning endeavour and their care and concern was a credit to them.

Leeanne Shanks
Teacher – Humanities and Social Sciences & Assistant Dean Alethea

TOUR KICKS OFF

April 11, 2019

A group of Year 10 students and three staff members have eagerly begun their journey on the South Africa Global Service Tour and are already checking out the stunning sights of Cape Town. Thanks to the generosity of the St Stephen’s School community, the group took over 400kg of shoes to be donated to Capetown United Football Club, Sinethemba Homeless Shelter, JJ Haven and Mokone Primary School.

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