OUR COMMUNITY BUILDERS

Woodlands Secondary School has a strong history of promoting a spirit of volunteerism among its students and staff. This initiative commenced as ‘Use Your Hands Campaign’ and then transformed into ‘Community Involvement Programme’ and currently celebrated as ‘Values In Action.’

In the early ‘90s, Woodlands Secondary School was engaged in Use Your Hands Campaigns such as “Keep Your School Clean” and “Tree Planting Day”. From 1997 onwards, our Community Involvement Programme encompassed building social cohesion and inculcating civic responsibility in students. Students’ 6 hours of community service included school cleaning, fund raising for any charitable organisation and school, providing support to the public libraries and Self-Help Groups. The shift towards values-based education in 2012, encouraged students to carry out a more structured, Community Needs Approach to serving the community. Woodlanders conduct a needs analysis of the community, plan, ideate and complete a refection after implementation of their service. The values of empathy, respect and gratitude, as well as life skills such as project management, leadership and communication skills are also developed in students.

Showcasing

Students did fag day as a form of community service and refected on their experience.

Helping to clean the Old