Service & Experiential Learning FIRST EDITION
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What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar - and no savage criminals to rid the world of ? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges? Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep.”
Epictetus While sleep is quite likely high on the priority list for many of us this May vacation, it is definitely well earned. The challenges that we have all faced these last six weeks have certainly been herculean. But through them, we have discovered new ways of helping others, competed in House running challenges, been inspired to create new art, and many more things that you will find out about in this first ever issue of the Service & Experiential Learning Journal. Thank you to all the contributors for their hard work and creativity and we hope you enjoy and are just as inspired as we are!
~ GIN ~ Global Issues Network The Global Issues Network (GIN) at ISH aims to raise awareness among students for the need to become responsible global citizens of tomorrow. Their initiatives are built on the premises of take ACTION, be PRESENT, be INVOLVED, be INTERESTED and CARING, regardless of whether on the school premises or out in the wider ISH community. And although the COVID-19 pandemic and the Netherlands “Intelligent Lockdown” has challenged the traditional way to achieve their goals, it has not stopped them. The goal is still the the same - to continue to make a difference through our projects: THE RECYCLE CLUB - PROJECT ROUSSEAU - GIN TREE TEAM HAAGSE HELPERS - ANIMAL RIGHTS - PLASTISH CROWN THIS CRISIS SLOW TALK THE CORONA CRISIS
THE RECYCLE TEAM:
The Recycle team of Nishita, Halima, Joana, Louis, Ilija, Jovan, William, Miguel, Beau, Dakshin and Vidvuds have created a video message about the importance of recycling paper.
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PROJECT ROUSSEAU: Our GIN students held a cross-Atlantic Conference call with students and leaders of the New York based Project Rousseau on 9 April 2020. This project aims to empower youth in communities with the greatest need to reach their full potential and pursue, and excel, in higher education. The conference call connected our students with students in New York and other parts of the USA and provided the platform for them to discuss what COVID-19 really means for the most vulnerable people in society. Andrew Heinrich, founder and Director of Project Rousseau, talked the participants through a lot of interesting aspects of the current corona-virus pandemic including: a. Hoarding - a conspicuous effect of the pandemic - and as he claimed and surprisingly enough not necessarily a bad one. b. Chronic Issues - such as the growing inequality gap and the miserable conditions a lot of students have to live in. It was an enriching session and we would like to thank Beth, Sarah and Andrew from Project Rousseau for having us!
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look at a web browser called Ecosia. This browser plants a tree for around every 45 searches you make using it. Ecosia has currently planted more than 90 million trees, and the numbers are rising. You should use Ecosia is because it has the same functions as your normal browser and it plants trees at the same time. Please take a look at the following document and consider using Ecosia. Install Ecosia, reinstall a greener planet. Please visit their website to find out more - www.ecosia.org If you have any questions regarding this topic, or any of our following ones, please email 149739@ishweb.nl (Adrian) Kind Regards, The GIN Trees Team: Adrian (7D), Felix (7C), Kunmi (7D), Dheeraj (7C), Jonathan (7D) and Florian (7B)
HAAGSE HELPERS In cooperation with the “Haagse Helpers”, last week GIN launched a card writing initiative to the many people living in care homes who can’t receive visitors due to the Corona virus. By sending a card, we tried to brighten up their day! Some students made a cards themselves with messages like: “Take care in these crazy times, I’m thinking of you.”
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ANIMAL RIGHTS After the May holiday: Students can join the online workshop on animal rights in the farming industry, led by our own GIN students; Dea, Madison and Yasmine!
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Who visits the chickens every Sunday in sun, thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Archie Hare! We want to congratulate Archie for his eggceptional work.
Even throughout the quarantine, Archie has proven to be a devoted chickeneer! He has not forgotten his duties and has helped us to take care of our lovely girls. Archie ensures the girls have plenty of leaves to play around in. He refills their play space with new dried leaves weekly so they can happily toss their beaks and feathers. Possibly his favourite duty is to let the chicks out of the coop to stretch their legs as well as feed them some dried worms, fresh basil or mint (one of their favourites!). After the hens have played for a bit, he helps to guide them back into the coop and then looks into the nesting box for fresh eggs. See below a quick time-lapse Movie he made on one of his visits. Archie we are very proud. Keep up the hard work! Eggcellent job Archie!
SPRING
IBCP STUDENTS & GREENFINGERS
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Now that the weather is warming up and spring is blooming, the bees are starting to stir again. As the bees become busy so do we beekeepers,; giving them extra room for all the spring honey they will be making and checking that they are healthy and strong.
THE BEE CLUB
Bees are incredibly important, they not only provide us with beeswax and honey but they also pollinate 80% of all plants. Did you know that a third of food is pollination dependant? Here at ISH we try to let the bees live as naturally as possible so we only take excess honey, leaving behind enough for the colony to live on. We only extract the honey from the comb, sieve the honey and then jar this up to sell to all of you, no other processes are involved. Did you know that honey never goes off? So if there isn’t much produce this season we can wait until after summer. We will be looking for student volunteers when we return to school to help with all the extra work from our three hives, so make sure to check out ISH vibes for any notices!
Can’t travel to see your favourite cities? Can’t enjoy some of the world’s most beautiful and renowned works of art because all museums and galleries are closed? Fear not!
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Several of our CP Year 12 students have created digital tours of their most beloved museums around the world. Join them on this adventure today from the comfort of home – simply click on these links (right) to go to their presentations!
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To cope with online media fatigue (streaming, games, social media) we challenged the students to shift from consuming to creating by giving works of art a twist of their own perspective. These contributions keep our students’ minds active and engaged while helping them overcome the challenges of social distancing.
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Galleria dell Accademia
Museo del Ferrocarril de Madrid
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Museo Nacional del Prado
The Vatican Museums
THE RECYCLED ART CLUB
Robot Club is a fun yet challenging club that runs on two different days. Our Tuesday club is for the “Makers” and in this club, students use a base robot (Sphero RVR) to add extra technology (Raspberry Pi, Arduino Uno, or BBC MicroBit) to complete a different challenge each week. The Thursday club is much more playful and we use different robots to play and explore coding and the limitations of the robots. So far this year we have used Sphero Bolts (to complete obstacle courses), Robot Arms (to draw and move objects), MicroBit Robots to complete a Maze. Both clubs are also counted as Service Activity Clubs, and as such we will also get involved with the larger community helping others and using skills used in the club to educate and engage other students. Examples of this include “Hour of Code” (2019) where students used what they have learnt in the club to engage students from the secondary school in the importance of coding and robotics.
The Recycled Art Club has been experimenting with making paper, sculptures, and altered books. For our paper making, we have been using discarded photo copy paper. What we have found is that because the paper has no cotton content - our recycled versions come out very hard and unmalleable. Because of this, we decided to build some sculptures by pushing the paper into molds. We then further experimented by adding leaves to our mixture. The result was a hard and completely sustainable material for pouring into molds. In addition, we have been altering old artworks left in the Art Rooms and old books to create new artworks by cutting, tearing, and painting to change the communication and meaning of the original forms
PHOTOGRAPHIC CLUB In the Photography Club, our focus has been on portrait photography. We’ve discussed and shot two different kinds: 1) classic headshot photos that focus on expression and separation from the background as well as 2) full body photos that focus on pose, clothing, and the environmental context. Here are some portraits taken both of and by our wonderful Photography Club students.
MOOT COURT Click here to see our first two team’s experience of at The International Criminal Court - The ICC - here in the Hague Mootcourt 2020
YEAR 7-9 PROGRAMMING CLUB
YEARS 10-11 PROGRAMMING CLUB
Students have been learning programming and enhancing their programming skills with Scratch. Through making platform games they have learned to key programming skills of: * Using variables * IF statements * Loops * Events and Interactions * Cloning Sprites * Have fun!
Years 10 and 11 stated the year by experimenting with interactive web pages.
Scratch is entirely Cloud Based so the students are able to continue their projects at home during the campus closure.
We experimented with a couple of robot vehicles to program them to navigate around objects and complete simple mazes.
It’s easy to get into. Just go to https://scratch. mit.edu/ and you’ll find lots of tutorials to get you started.
We programmed MicroBits in conjunction with Maqueen robots to use their sensors to turn when they detected objects.
It works on desktop computers, but also in iPads with a keyboard.
We programmed Sphero-RVR robots to navigate as per our instructions to drive through obstacles based on the commands in the Sphero Edu App.
As the year progressed we were able to experiment with programming some of the new robotic equipment coming into the school. We trained the dobot magician robot arms to grab and move items.
COMPETITIONS
SERVICE IN ACTION We continue to be amazed by the efforts of our students to put service in action during the campus closure. Year 7 student Tomas Guerrero and Year 8 student Julotte Goedhart have both created awareness videos to help the ISH community understand more about the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Take a look at their resourceful videos here:
Tomas also wanted to share one of his favourite hobbies with us – and its one that can be safely done from home! Here are some tips on how to enjoy Bird Watching. Click the Blue Bird on the Left to view his video
Are you wondering how to make a protective face mask from materials you might have at home? C. Shafa Rahmatsyah (Year 7) has made a tutorial video to make your DIY dreams come true.
When Elvin Selimovic (Year 11) realized organizing a bake sale would not be possible as a result of the campus closure, he decided to create cooking videos for everyone at home instead. Here above is his first instructional video, showing us how to bake delicious chocolate choux buns.
Calling all music lovers: Year 9 student Simao Cardoso is performing a live music show called “The Quarantine Set” on Instagram. You can follow him at @’sc_king18 or simply tune in every two days after 13 April at 6:00 p.m. to catch his live shows. Thanks for keeping us entertained Simao!
THE LITWITS The LitWits have been busy promoting their love for literature and writing through a new Instagram account. Take a look at lit_wits_ book_club_ish/ for book recommendations and writing tips.
THE KNITTING CLUB Being at home over the past few weeks has not slowed down the Senior Knitting Club. Students are still hard at work knitting squares to be made into blankets for orphaned and vulnerable children in South Africa. This project supports the amazing work being done by CreateCare Global, an organization which provides support and comfort to children in poverty.
CRAFTY “HOW TO” VIDEOS Nishka 9H is filming a series of HOW TO... vidoes. This week’s episode How to make crotchet flowers. - Click the link to see how it is done.
3. Tutor your peers via Hangouts or help younger students with their schoolwork. (this can be a long term or and SA/ CAS/SL project if you do 2 tutoring sessions per week for 4 weeks) 4. Reach beyond your local community, and volunteer to teach English to Thai high school students via Speaking Hub. (this can be a long term or and SA/CAS/SL project if you do 2 tutoring sessions per week for 4 weeks )
STUCK A HOME DURING THE BREAK? BORED? NO NEED! DARE TO DO SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES BELOW! 1.
Write thank you cards for hospital staff and send it to the nearest hospital. Post offices are still up and running! (this can be a long term or and SA/ CAS/SL project if you write 3 card per week for 4- 5 weeks. it can be a short term if you do 1 it for 3 weeks.)
2. Staying home is now more important than ever. Create awareness videos to share with our school local community - focus on the importance of self-quarantining. Send to Mrs. Lira so we can publish on ISHVIBES(this can be a long term or and SA/CAS/SL project if you create 1 video per week for 4 weeks and you send me one per week it can be a short term if you do 1 video)
5. Host a live Hangout session with your friends for some mindfulness, yoga or pilates. Maybe even open up the class to the whole school via IshVibes? (this can be a long term or and SA/CAS/SL project if you do 2 sessions per week for 4 weeks, it can be a short term if you do 1 lesson) Send link to Mrs. Lira so we can publish on ISHVIBES. 6. Create short videos to share with your friends and family, and inspire others to stay active. Send link to Mrs. Lira so we can publish on ISHVIBES (this can be a long term or and SA/CAS/SL project if you create 1 video per week for 4 weeks and you send me one per week). 7. We are experiencing history in the making. Use this opportunity and keep a hand made journal or scrapbook for the next few weeks - it can be either physical or digital (for example, using Penzu). Document and create a collection of your experience through photos, drawings, interviews with others or poems, for example. Take pictures and send to Mrs. Lira so we can publish on ISHVIBES. 8. Learn a new DIY skill such as crafting, scrapbooking, making beauty/health products (like hand sanitizer), crocheting, sewing (make your own face mask!) and create a tutorial(s) for our school community- .Send to me so we can publish on ISHVIBES. (this can be a long term or and SA/CAS/ SL project if you create 1 video per week for 4 weeks and you send me one per week, it can be a short term if you do 1 video) Send to Mrs. Lira so we can publish on ISHVIBES. 9. Take an online tour of some of the most fmous museums in the world and write about what you learned. Send to Mrs. Lira so we can publish on ISHVIBES. (short term). 10. Make sure you and your family reduce your plastic consumption during this time of quarantine. Check out the Eye On Plastic project by Plastic Free Campus to find out exactly how this can be done through a fun, eye-opening project. Send to Mrs. Lira your project and research so we can publish on ISHVIBES.
11. Research issues on climate change using these super cool resources by NASA, for example. Then, use these resources to create an awareness campaign within your local community, school, government or even on an EU level. Send campaign to Mrs. Lira so we can publish on ISHVIBES. 12. Create an exercise and meal plan to stay in good health, and share it with us to be published on ISHvibes. Maybe even ask your P.E. teacher to host a virtual class. Seeing your P.E. class all do jumping jacks in their bedrooms, living rooms or outside spaces might be a welcome change from watching others move on TikTok. Send to Mrs. Lira so we can publish on ISHVIBES. 13. Sustainable cities and communities If you have a small garden in your backyard, you can grow your own vegetables and herbs. Or you can start working on your recycling process with your family. Check out the Eco Warrior list of herbs that anyone can plant – even those who do not have a green thumb. Send to Mrs. Lira so we can publish on ISHVIBES. 14. Life On Land- The UN SDG Academy has a free online course called From the Ground Up: Managing our Terrestrial Ecosystems. Examine the complex relationship between humans and their environment, and the effects that relationship has on critical ecosystem services. Compile your learnings, and share it with Mrs. Lira so we can publish on ISHVIBES.
Why not try to do some gardening for your service?
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Make garden art from recycled cans. Turn old play dough containers into planters. Create a fun hideout - DIY bean teepee. Use recycled cans to make a tin can herb garden. Get out the paint, & make garden markers using rocks. Grow a grass head friend. Grow a garden using an egg carton. Build Lego planters. Build a mini greenhouse. Use eggshells to make a mini garden
Shifting Power Dynamics in a Globalised World The theme for the 30th annual MUNISH conference: Shifting Power Dynamics in a Globalised World, aims to acknowledge the extensive changes that have occurred in the last two decades. This theme, in accordance with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), not only prompts an innovative and unconventional outlook on modern politics, but also on the development and globalisation of our world as a whole. Shifting power dynamics addresses how different aspects of the global society have evolved significantly; in international relations, the economic rise of the East and the growing influence of non-state actors such as businesses, inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations have changed the balance of power. Due to advancements in technology which facilitate communication around the globe, the interconnectedness of nations, groups and individuals has also empowered disadvantaged groups to advocate for their rights and level the playing field. As Kofi Annan said, “If globalisation is to succeed, it must succeed for poor and rich alike. It must deliver rights no less than riches. It must provide social justice and equity no less than economic prosperity and enhanced communication.� Keeping the ambiguous nature of globalisation in mind, this shift of power and the further development of our global community must provide equal opportunity for all. Reaffirming the core values of the UN to respect fundamental human rights, strive for international peace and security, as well as promote diversity and tolerance: the theme of MUNISH 2020 embraces the global changes taking place while paving the way for future generations. In the last decade of the SDGs, this theme will serve as the backbone of the conference, adopted by all committees and at the heart of the Security Council and the International Court of Justice.
AND THE SHIOW GOES ON.......
KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON.......
Despite the current situation, many of the students doing the award this year are using this time as an opportunity to develop new skills and help out in their local community. The International Award is all about providing participants with an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding programme of personal development and although many of their activities have currently been postponed, many students have been thinking outside of the box and taken on new challenges. Below are some examples of the fantastic things our students are doing: Physical Activity: table tennis on the family dining table, running or jogging in the local neighbourhood, online yoga and fitness classes, physical conditioning exercises Skill: cooking for the family, online music for jazz band practice, sending videos of singing to grandparents, improving language skills online Service: getting groceries for elderly neighbours, community gardening to brighten up the neighbourhood, volunteering for online research projects, microvolunteering with Help from Home. These are just a few of the changes that students have made to continue working towards achieving their award. Well done to all of the students that have gone above and beyond, making use of the extra time they have, to not only grow and develop personally but also to help out at home and in the local community.
The ISH PHE Department knows how to keep the ISH Students moving - even when the students aren’t at school...
Skills Tennis Ball Challenge
Running Challenge via NRC
Best lockdown Trick Shot Challenge
Heads up.... 10 am daily
PE WITH JOE THE BODY COACH
for live daily workouts for kids and the family - Should you need some extra activity to add to your morning routines. Click the link below for a 30 minute home workouts with no equipment! www.youtube.com/thebodycoachtv
WORK OUT OF THE WEEK goto the Silverbacks Instagram Page for your weekly update
COMING SOON: Cycling Challenge
Students vs Staff using a cycling app to track distance. Which house/team can complete the most KM’s in a month? Look out for this starting soon!
COMING SOON: House Chess Challenge
Students vs Student Chess is one of the oldest rivalry games in the world. Represent your house and let’s see who is king/queen of the board!!! Look out for this starting soon!
COMING SOON: Daily Fitness Excercise Challenge
Students vs Student / Staff Who can hold the record the longest for the exercises announced? The Challenge - to complete the exercise for either 30 seconds or 1 minute and to see how many you can do in that time! Get ready.... Teachers vs Students / Houses!!