Weekly Newsletter 13 November 2020

13 November, 2020 News from NLCS Jeju WELCOME TO OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

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Dear Parents, Students, Staff and Friends of NLCS Jeju This week both here in Korea and in the rest of the world we have been showing gratitude for the service of so many men and women who have died or been injured in the service of their countries during the many wars which have taken place. This has been taken up too in the special message from the Government of the Republic of Korea to to thank foreign service members who fought alongside this country during the Korean War Here In the UK we commemorate this time through the Poppy Appeal run by the Royal British Legion and our students and staff have been supporting this. Around the world the poppy has special significance at this time of remembrance. the poppy Here at North London Collegiate School one of our key aims is To develop an outward looking, internationally minded, community of young people who have a clear understanding of the value of commitment and service to others.

We are very proud that we have a great service culture within our School. From the moment a student joins the School they can contribute to many, many different enterprises and initiatives. We raise funds, we raise awareness; we learn and grow through service. We are delighted to be able to share some of the stories of our teachers and students who spearhead these important activities.

Yours sincerely, Lynne Oldfield Principal

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A Life in Service and Education - Douglas Machin To run an effective and authentic service department you need a very special leader. At NLCS Jeju, we have found one in the shape of Mr Douglas Machin. Mr Machin has a rich history in both service and education and he combines these passions here at NLCS Jeju - benefitting our School and the wider community.

Mr Machin studied and trained in the UK and began volunteering as an undergraduate. He has taught Mathematics and worked in International Development around the world for much of his career. In the early years he worked in Bangladesh helping street children. He describes this as “ an eye opening experience” one that taught him many life lessons as he worked on the ground and helped secure future funding to help these vulnerable and needy children.

He has also worked in China (where he met his wife Ms LaiLai Luo) and in Ghana. In Ghana he experienced times of true deprivation - students would study by the light of candles at night and they needed to get water in buckets from a well. In such rural communities science lessons took on new danger levels compared to the safety measures we are used to. Mr Machin explains “I taught Chemistry and Science. Set-up a science resource centre for all of the local schools. This included Chemistry, Physics and Biology labs. These labs became the Science Resource centre for all of the surrounding junior schools. However, there was no power and so this made life tricky at times. Have you ever taken the top off a pressurised bottle of liquid ammonia, but not inside a fume cupboard. We had to do this by putting the bottle around the corner of a building and reaching around with your hand to unscrew the bottle.The lab also only had 1 gas canister - there was no gas supply, just the gas canister! We had to travel for 8 hours along very bumpy roads with the canister to the biggest town to get the canister re-filled.

Every day, morning and evening, we had to walk down to the local well and pump buckets of water.

I’m now an expert at carrying things (like buckets of water) on my head.”

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This rich life experience means that Mr Machin supports and promotes authentic service here at NLCS Jeju - where he is in his eighth year! He believes that students should learn and grow through what they do. He describes the current projects with a true passion for serving others and this is carried on through his partnership with Mr GwangHo Im and his inspiration of all our teachers.

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Meet the Teacher - Mr. GwangHo Im We are very lucky to have Mr. GwangHo Im as our Service and Community Coordinator. He liaises with students, teachers, parents and the wider community on all service initiatives across the School.

He sees his role as one of true community liaison. He meets with welfare organisations, Homes, projects, associations and helps make student ideas happen. He points out that he is not organising the initiatives but supporting the students who do so.

Mr. Im has been at NLCS Jeju since 2014 as a Korean teacher and AHM before taking on his current Student (Mentor - Jane Rouson) Joon Kang, Arin Im, Flynn Jung, Evie Hamilton Scotthe role.

HeCouncil has seen huge changes in Daeho SchoolKim, and changes in Lee, ourAustin commitment to service.

At first Jayden Kwon, Olivia Kim readily admits that service meant raising money for individual projects but now he knows that it means listening to what people really need. “We need to listen, not talk. Don’t give people what we want to give them but what they actually need. Commit to a project and really believe in it.”

Gwang Ho cites an example of our donation of 200 iMacs to a village project.“We could have discarded or sold off these older units but instead we donated them to five local villages where there was a real need.They decided how they would use them - setting up centres or putting them in individual homes.

We then offered practical education in using them. So much better than money.”

Another regular commitment is the Nepal trip. “We choose to always go there rather than spreading out across different countries. That way we can improve and grow what we do. Students have been helping out since 2014. They raise funds by selling Nepalese products and we use proceeds from the Summer Fete. Twenty students and four staff travel to Nepal and visit villages and their schools - they teach and play games with the children. We also donate sports equipment to them.

Mr. Im cherishes his time every Summer when he visits every centre or organisation that we work with and he hears the benefits and feedback and talks about new opportunities.

His final word? “Rather than volunteering just because of future benefits, students should be passionate about volunteering for others truly from their heart. They should constantly continue their voluntary actions for the long term without losing their first enthusiasm.”

If you are a parent, student or teacher and you want to give back then please contact ghim@nlcsjeju.kr

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Student Leader - Shine Lee Year 13 student, Shine Lee, is our School Service Ambassador and she serves on the Big Eight. Shine is ideal for the position as she has been in School since Year 6 and has worked on many different service projects in different capacities since then. She has been on the Nepal Service team, has participated in the Lighthouse project and Dream House. She has also been learning the ropes of TowerAid since being in Year 11 and has been Mufti Day coordinator.

Shine is clear on what it takes to be a good Service Ambassador - “It’s not about overseeing events - it’s about looking for service opportunities everywhere. There are so many opportunities, so many issues - not just the big things but tiny things, too. The skill is in noticing!”

Shine finds the role extremely rewarding. She loves seeing students designing and implementing their own projects. “Whether it’s in School or outside it’s all valuable. It’s so wonderful to be able to share the stories and have students, parents and staff learn from them. We look for everything to be meaningful.

The more awareness students have the more awareness they can raise and the rewards are greater.”

Her final word is to quote Warren Buffet - “If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.”

Student Service Commitment - Amy Nam, Year 11 - Nepal Trip It’s hard to imagine going abroad on a School trip right now - but trips abroad have been a major part of our programme for several years now. Year 11 student, Amy Nam, has twice visited Nepal as part of our NLCS Jeju group trip. She tells us what it means to her. “Service may be defined in many ways, according to how a person designs the ideal qualification and motivation the provider shall consist. The Nepal service trip was an opportunity where I was able to emotionally and logically clarify the ambiguity of the service principles and the ideal relationship between the provider and receiver.

Before flying to the site where the service took place, the team had about three months of preparation. At this stage, I thought that the actual lesson that we were planning would be the most important aspect of the entire service trip. Rather than the actual 40 minutes of the lessons, it was in the preparation when the service began. The purpose of researching various activities was for the providers to think and understand about their receivers and recognise the value of the service that they will provide.The first qualification of a provider I found was an ability to thoroughly understand the people who you will serve and the weight of your actions regarding your potential influence on them.

Then, when I actually met the students in Nepal, I realised that service cannot be motivated by simple sympathy, but with a desire to provide them with an equal opportunity - one that I had, which they did not due to the conditions they are in. Exposed to a new environment the service trip now meant something more.

I saw the reality of something I had only seen in my geography text book and case studies and I defined the true value of service - it is where different communities interact and where understanding of each other starts.

Though parts of the trip were physically tiring, I can confidently say that the trip will remain as one of the most significant turning points of my school year, where the fundamental principles and values of service were found.�

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Toweraid - Overseeing Our Efforts We see Toweraid on many fundraising posters and documents. But what is Toweraid? How is it run and what do they do? The committee explain “TowerAid is the student committee that oversees all service and community works at NLCS Jeju.

We aim to actively develop NLCS Jeju’s contributions to local, national and global service, as well as to stimulate all members of our School community to serve others and be aware of how to make positive impacts inside and outside the School.

There are 7 members from Years 11 and 12 in TowerAid and the group consists of a number of different roles Service events coordinator Service CCA/Bryant coordinator, Mufti Day Coordinator - Clara Kim Budget Coordinator Publicity Officer Chair (also the Big 8 Service Ambassador) - Shine Lee All requests or enquiries regarding service have to go through the relevant members of TowerAid. Despite the hardships in continuing with service projects since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, NLCS Jeju community showed an ongoing effort in various aspects of service. The Senior School raised 4.5 million won in total in the 2019-20 academic year, which led to donations to support people in wider communities around us - for instance, for those who have suffered from the Australian bushfire crisis and COVID-19 crisis. In collaboration with student-led service groups, TowerAid also had the Christmas Bazaar in December last year. Service CCA and Bryant groups also carried out their work, each with distinctive service goals for the year. TowerAid deeply appreciates what has been achieved through the collaboration of all students, teachers and staff especially in 2020.

With the prolonged COVID-19 crisis, it seems that service at NLCS Jeju will not be able to run in the same manner as in previous years.Yet, the interest and passion of the community does not seem to fade away and TowerAid will continue to support every effort made in this school. Start here, aid everywhere.

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Service Bryants - What Are They?

Mr. Machin and Mr. Im work with teachers and students on many Service Bryants - some are active throughout the year and some are seasonal. Here we give you an introduction to them.These are some of our key service projects and all deserve a mention but it is important to remember that there are many, many individual projects and one-off initiatives also going on. Please keep reading our newsletters and social media for more information or talk to one of the Service team or any student to find out more.

Single Mothers Project For some time now the Soroptimists Society have been helping the single parents of Jeju. They have been organising clothing drives to raise money and supplies for young single mothers who have no family support. Their contributions are valuable as these young mothers have often been shunned by family and are without the most basic help. Some of the team explain Ginger Kim - “Soroptimist Jeju collaborates with Ae-Seo-Won, a single mum shelter in Jeju. Soroptimist Jeju provides them with cleaning services and donations. We also raise awareness within the school community by various fundraising events and receiving active donations from the members of school.”

Angela Park - “Soroptimist Jeju donate clothes or baby clothes that students don't wear and deliver them to Ae-Seo-Won in Jeju to support single moms.”

Krystal Park - “Soroptimists Jeju donate clothes and toys to Ae-Seo-Won, a single mother protection facility, which is a great help for single mothers. In this process of helping single mothers, students feel great pride.”

To hear more, please contact the Soroptimists/

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Penguin Village Junk Art Project Service and creativity are combined in this popular service activity! The Penguin Village Project, founded in 2018, uses the slogan of waste, by design, for environment, and community to tackle the issues of environmental pollution, an ageing community and lack of art in rural communities. The project has been inspired by Penguin Village located in Gwangju, a tourist site that the local villagers created by embellishing their village with beautiful junk art.

For three years, the project has been involved in activities such as producing junk art, painting murals in Bosung-ri, fundraising by selling eco-bags created from recycled plastic bags and blogging to raise awareness. Due to long-term commitment in such activities, the project recently received recognition by gaining first place in the Jeju Community Service Competition and was awarded the Minister of Gender Equality Award. In the short term, the project aims to furnish rural areas with art - it also aims to mitigate environmental problems. The project aims to transform the village into a lively tourist destination or a community gathering place, where people come and decelerate the community from aging. https://jejuyouth.net:43335/html5/page/info/01.php) Link-Regeneration Blog https://shyoon22.wixsite.com/blogofregeneration Link-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penguin_maeul_jeju/

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This Service initiative acknowledges the animal world in the form of the dolphins of Jeju. The team say “There are 70 ~ 80 dolphins living close to our school, swimming in the sea of Daejeong. IndoPacific bottlenose dolphins are indigenous species of Jeju, in need of our protection with their drastically reduced numbers from 124 in 2008 to 104 in 2012. Plastic waste, vinyl waste, and other non-biodegradable waste that humans produce, endanger the whole of marine life. As a community service group, we hope to directly solve the ecological problems which threaten the dolphins. The overall goal for our community service is to raise awareness within our society about the gravity of the environmental issues. Ultimately, we would like to make our community take actions as a whole and be engaged in those activities. “

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The Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired This Bryant is dedicated to educating and empowering the visually impaired. Mainly, this is done by making literature more accessible to them, as literature provides knowledge, joy, and insight about the world. The students tell us “Books play an important role in one’s life, but there is very limited access to literature for the blind and the visually impaired. Our Bryant produces transcribed versions of normal books in typed and audio form.These are then sent to a Korean welfare centre for the visually impaired, where the typed versions are converted into Braille and audio versions are shared on various platforms. This year, we have been contacting an American organisation to share English transcribed books produced by our students, to broaden our impact.

We aim to achieve our goals by creating and distributing educational leaflets about the visually impaired - the misconceptions and how to fairly treat them in public - in and out of School, as well as by organising fundraisers, donations, and campaigns. We believe that providing equal opportunities and raising awareness about minorities will help establish a healthier society.�

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‘Supia’ is a service Bryant group that supports the assuagement of global environmental pollution.

Derived from the Greek mythology -- ‘Supia’ means fairy in the forest. Recently, pollution has globally deteriorated while people remain low on their plateau-awareness of such circumstances. Therefore, in order to ingrain better awareness in people, we decided to launch a new service group called “Supia”.

Our group’s ultimate goal is to improve the environmental condition of GEC areas and instill environmental consciousness.The main activities include planting air purification trees, plocking activities, and creating weekly articles and infographics on the topic of environmental conservation. The project ‘planting air-purifying trees’ provides students an opportunity to plant pet trees so that anyone can create their own forests. Each member chooses their air-purifying plant and makes the guidebook which provides essential information on how to raise the plant. Then, our group delivers air-purifying plants to organizations in Jeju. Due to COVID-19, there is a limitation on the organizations that we can interact with. Therefore, we are planning to deliver pet trees to junior students in NLCS Jeju in term 1.

Students can either take air-purifying trees to their home and raise with their parents or place them in the classrooms where children spend the longest hours of the day. The trees that we deliver will purify the air in the classroom and take responsibility for the health of junior students.

Plocking, the compound word of ‘Plocka Upp’ (meaning pick-up in Swedish) and walking, is an activity that encourages people to walk and pick up trash together to protect the environment. During such Bryant sessions, our group walks around the GEC and picks up trash on the way. By having various activities that aim to foster the environment, especially in Jeju, ‘Supia’ encourages students and teachers to have more interest in conserving the natural environment, and ingraining the concept of “nature” to future generations.

Olle Trail Clean Up

The primary aim of 'Jeju Olle Trail Clean Up' is to improve and support the environment of Jeju Olle trail by taking part in the campaign hosted by the organisation 'Jeju Olle.' The activity mainly focuses on collecting litter on the Olle trail courses and making a friendly environment not only to the visiting tourists, but also to the local people. Your small participation saves Jeju.

Jeju, widely known as one of the 7 natural wonders of the world, is losing the purity of its environment due to an increase in the number of tourists recently.

Specifically, people often visit Olle trails in Jeju, and are being careless about keeping them clean and intact.

Therefore, by walking on the Olle trails, with the help from the organisation Clean Olle, we can not only improve our fitness, but also make our surroundings much cleaner. Each of the leaders take turns to plan the Olle trail route.

Each group consists of around 11 students and 2 staff.

Since we have three groups, for the whole activity we have approximately 40 participants in term 1. We visit different Olle trails once every week, during the Bryant session, for three hours. We run three groups in total, so there are two leaders in a group who plan and manage the activity every week.

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Music Service Club The Music Service Club was established to explore the various aspects of music while organizing performances and helping others with their music talents. It started with just a few students, but as more students with different musical talents and instruments have been engaged, we have moulded ourselves, showing music to be an even more effective medium that can encompass more diverse sounds. This maximizes the role of music to promote interaction and gain mental peace. We are expanding our area of activities into music therapy.

As the main purpose of Music Service Club is to provide both performance and music service, our activities are based on performance at the sanatorium, music therapy by teaching simple motions and songs to the elderly and busking. Recently, we used part of our time to experience proper education for music therapy so that we can expand our perspectives and knowledge for the role of music as a therapy. Since the entire activity is student-led, discussion and cooperation is key to deciding the music, performance style and composition of the instruments. In addition, we select some more songs that are relatively easy to sing along so that we can teach the song and simple motions along with the music to the elderly. We spend a lot of time pondering and discussing the effective delivery method so that more of them can be engaged. As we continue the activities, we learn how to cooperate and communicate better.

Jenam Orphanage The team tells us “Jenam Orphanage Community Service originates from the Angel House Community Service, which took place for several years until the beginning of the 2017-2018 academic year. Since the beginning of the 2017 academic year, we have been visiting Jenam Orphanage. Students from NLCS Jeju visit Jenam Orphanage to take part in a service programme for two hours each week. The overall goal of this community service is to provide emotional and educational support to the children at Jenam Orphanage by developing close relationships with them. We prepare activities related to creativity, artistic, and physical, so that the children can have an enjoyable time. We also regularly teach various subjects including English via games or activities.�

Please see the link HERE to the Be A Santa project which is now in its fifth year. There are many ways to give gifts and donations to children who have very little. We urge you all to join us and truly Be A Santa to those in need.

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Giving Artists ‘Giving Artists’ is composed of creative students who wish to use their talents in doing something meaningful and helping people. All of our students, (Years 7-12) work towards the same goal, producing individual and family portraits as well as knitting scarfs, mittens, hats and blankets before the winter for elderly people living in Jeju. We also plan to deliver these completed gifts to them with little letters, written by the students with warmth, love and care. The main aim of this Bryant is to use the students’ talents for the production of successful artworks including knitted products and portraits. However, due to COVID-19, we were not able to get the pictures/photos of the old people who are living in Jeju island alone. Instead of drawing/painting their portraits, students continued knitting and some of them even volunteered to decorate their letterheads for the letters in the future.

The Bryant is a valuable opportunity to form special bonds both with elders in Jeju and students in school across all year groups. What makes us special is how we can give warmth and care even without physical contact through media made with passion and talent. We work hard imagining making people smile.

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Peace Village Peace Village Bryant team is a community service team of Year 10-12 students who are very passionate about serving people with special needs. Every Saturday for 2 hours, we meet and interact with Peace Villagers. We do our best to make even those short times as good memories. On a weekday, the team members altogether go through the plan for the upcoming Bryant weekend. Unfortunately, in the first term, we couldn’t visit the Peace Village due to social distancing.

Most of the time, we involve English in the activities that we prepare. The activities that we have done last year include creating English names and doing collages using newspapers and magazines written in English. As we also believe sharing the unfamiliar Western culture to the Peace Villagers is equally important, we prepare activities related to the holidays in such seasons. For example, last year, we made Jack-o’-lanterns right before Halloween. This year, we are also planning to run activities that would help Peace Villagers to get a better grip of financial matters. At the moment, we are coming up with various approaches that would allow us to introduce this new concept in an interesting way.

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Village Is School Village is School was established in late 2014 by three year 6 students. It consists of 3 different villages who are helped and supported by our teams. The teams explain what they have been doing in Gueokri, Bosung and Shinpyeong.

Gueok-ri We, as a team, have created a small library in Gueok-ri with donated books from the parents of NLCS, and we teach young children in the village English, Science, and PE. Since the children in Gueok-ri village are quite young, mostly in Years 1-4, we try hard to make our lessons enjoyable, using multiple activities and games. Our aim is to provide a platform for children where they can be naturally exposed to English.

Since the young children in the local village have limited access to educational activities outside of the provisions of the public school in the village, we try to increase the accessibility with our lessons. Besides lessons, we occasionally go out for a trip together. We have been to Hallim Park and Gotjawal when indoor activities were prohibited under COVID-19 restrictions.

The ultimate goal of Village is School is to connect our school and the village together. Even though the two different communities are physically close together, there have been a very minimal amount of interactions between NLCS and villages near the school, such as Gueok-ri, Bosung-ri and Shinpyeong-ri.

We have held several flea markets with the village, planned and run annual village trips every May and various other activities. Due to the current situations, unfortunately, Village is School could not do any Bryant for term 1. The team is looking forward to carrying on with Bryant from term 2.

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Shinpyeong-ri “Despite the COVID-19 restrictions, Sinpyeong-ri still hoped to communicate with the villagers this term and decided to research about the 4.3 incident that happened in Jeju and also create a pamphlet about the incident.

First, we each divided parts to research on after discussion. We tried to find a book about the 4.3 incident in the school library, but there weren’t any books. So we had to only use the internet for our research. We often even felt bored with sitting and researching. On the day when the research was finished early, we made a mask strap, a strap that hangs the mask around the neck and keeps it safe.

The mask straps were donated to the elderlies living in the village. After Chuseok, our link teacher Mr. Gillings and Mr. Carter-Stead gave us the chance for a field trip to 4.3 incident’s historical sites. Through the field trip, we were able to feel the tragedy of the 4.3 incident by visiting those sites. In the first term, we researched and visited historical sites to make a pamphlet which will inform the 4.3 incident that occured in Jeju.”

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“We teach the children in Bosung-ri how to code using simple platforms like Scratch using the Macbooks that were donated from our school. We mostly create games such as mazes and adventure stories through this platform so that the students can easily understand and follow. When the students ask for something else, we also sometimes teach them how to use blogs, make posters and presentations and other useful skills that they can easily use in their daily lives.

The overarching theme of Village is School is to connect with the village people. Although we are currently located in Jeju, our school and the GEC are a very closed society and we are often thought of as foreigners.Village is School aims to break down this wall and to link with the villagers.Village is School Bosungri in particular, took our first step in achieving this with the Bosungri village by providing education about computers. Although we only have young students that are currently learning, our further aim is to have adults from Bosungri village come to learn as well. “

About Jeju

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The fundamental aim of “About Jeju’’ is to promote the unique culture of Jeju to tourists as well as to translate and promote the shop menus of traditional markets for the development of tourism.

Another aim is to publicise Jeju Island’s tourist attractions, which are unique but not well-known to tourists from other countries. As we translate the menus from the traditional markets, it will be more convenient for foreigners who have difficulty reading Korean menus. Moreover, we as a group can relieve the burden of merchants who cannot translate well. Last year, we visited places such as Dongmun traditional market, Hamdeok beach and Norimae Park and were able to communicate with local merchants, and carry out our aims.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic this year, we are currently working on our official website, pamphlets, and uploading posts on our instagram account. Once we finish work, we are going to publish officially, therefore, everyone will be able to access our website. https://sites.google.com/pupils.nlcsjeju.kr/nlcsaboutjeju/home This is our instagram account. We usually upload posts about some tourist attractions during the bryant. Please follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/nlcs_aboutjeju/ @nlcs_aboutjeju These are the pamphlets that our members created. We are so excited to share all of them! https://www.nlcsjeju.co.kr/userfiles/nlcsjejumvc/pdfs/News/About%20Jeju_Pamphlets.pdf Through our activities, we hope that Koreans and foreigners in Jeju will be able to learn about Jeju’s culture and strengthen our community bond. Foreigners will be more attracted to Jeju when they realise that we are proud of Jeju and it has natural attractions that cannot be found in Seoul or other cities in Korea. Lastly, we really hope that we would be able to visit and publicise traditional markets, and various tourist attractions such as restaurants, cafes, and museums as soon as possible.

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Service doesn’t start as students enter Senior School. It starts in Junior School with even the youngest children learning to think of others in formal and informal settings.

Mr. Im tells us -The Junior School service initiative has been developing each year thanks to a real focus by dedicated Service Ambassadors. The team gathers donations from Mufti Days, 6 times a year. Then, the four service ambassadors research areas or organisations that need support and discuss to finalise two recipients. It is a truly rewarding and happy experience to see our small support team be able to help those in need.

The Christmas Bazaar and the Summer Fete are some of the biggest celebrations of the year. The JS service ambassadors collaborate with the Senior School Toweraid team to ensure that the festivals are entertaining and well managed. Also, they sell snacks and products, where the profit is entirely donated.

They are learning skills and management that they take with them through their service career.

Finally, there are numerous community service CCAs and Bryant programmes in the Senior School; often Junior School students can participate in these projects, and we are also in the stage of planning JS’ very own community service programmes. Last year, all collaborated in the Farming Bryant and donated the crops. This year, there are further plans to join forces with the Senior School’s Olle Trail Cleanup Bryant from Bryant Block 3.

These Service ambassadors are trying hard to provide the best community service opportunities to Junior School students, and we look forward to new plans throughout the year.

Mr. Jeremy Freeman - VP - Head of Junior School adds "We are very proud of our Junior School Service Ambassadors. They are such an important part of our school and support our wish to aid and help other people and organisations. Values and habits learned now will stay with our young people for a lifetime."

If Junior School parents would like to help or know more about this then please talk to Mr. Im or Parent Relations Manager, Ms. DongEun Lee.

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Mufti Day Fundraising Results We regularly run Mufti Days in both Senior and Junior School to raise money for good causes. Clara Kim is TowerAid’s Mufti Day coordinator. She told us about the amazing results of the last event held on October 28 and 29.

“The grand total raised was 1,727,410 KRW with special thanks to Sarah House for raising 314,100 KRW. We would also like to show sincere gratitude to the teaching staff and support staff that participated in the events! Funds are donated to the Hongik Preschool Center by Supplies with Hope Enterprise.

The donation will be used to give Christmas presents and to donate the requested supplies such as notebooks, pens, and crayons.

Clara says that her knowledge of Mufti Days has grown enormously as the year has gone on. “I didn’t really know what Mufti Days stood for - but now I see that we can help so many social causes. It’s an opportunity for us to reach out to causes and initiatives around the world. We have so few opportunities to really be active globally but we can use our donations to help causes such as Black Lives Matter and the Australian Bushfire Crisis. “ Get in touch with Clara if you want to know more!

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As a British School Remembrance Day is very important to us from a British and a global perspective.

It is traditional in the UK to wear red poppies to commemorate our fallen soldiers from World War I to the present day. The Cultural Awareness Committee upheld this custom selling poppies to students and staff in the Green Gallery at breaktimes and lunchtimes this week. The Day itself is November 11 - Armistice Day which celebrates the end of World War 1. All proceeds go to The Royal British Legion in the UK to support servicemen and women.

Student Success in UN SDG Contest Well done to Olivia, Eunsoo, and Rosa in Year 8 who worked on a Twenty Day Challenge contest held by the UN over last Summer break and recently received the results. They achieved a very creditable Third Place! Take a look at their video HERE of the World Saving Pumpty Dumpty.

English Enrichment Week

Before Half Term we had a wonderful English Enrichment Week in Senior and Junior School. Head of English, Mr. Geoff Hall and English teacher, Ms. Lesley Gissane both delivered well-attended lectures. Ms. Gissane spoke about Post Modernism and Emerging Academic Disciplines - A case for the Significance of Korean Literature and Popular Culture in the English Classroom. She argued that students can gain much from many modern Korean novels. We recommend Pachinko by Min Jin Lee as a great place to start.

Year 12 student and Chair of the English Society, Elysia (Seoyoon) Bae organised many different activities throughout the week - including sending out poems selected by the leadership team! She says “Just before the half-term break, the English Society and the English Department launched an Enrichment Week to rekindle the students’ passion for our common language. I took it as my personal duty (as a lover of the English language) to encourage students to think about English as a fascinating topic instead of another boring subject.

Much to my delight, all of our proposed activities ended up being so popular that what we had prepared wasn’t enough.The “Shakespeare or Hip-Hop?” Quiz got the most attention; I had so much fun watching students trying to figure out patterns, agonising over picking the right answers, etc. Unknowingly, this quiz got them to think of Shakespeare in a new light, instead of an old playwright that appears in every English syllabus.

Collaborating with the Junior School was also a spectacular experience for all the members. With the Year 6s, we got them to write relay stories where one pair wrote one sentence of a story and passed it along. The beauty in that was the fact that nobody knew what direction the story would take, encouraging them to turn on their creative minds. The end results were hilarious.

With the Year 5s, we got even more creative — we asked them to come up with their own book covers of their favourite books. What I enjoyed about English in Junior School back in 2012-2014 was the fact that I could be a creative soul in the work I did. We, the English Society, made sure there were opportunities for them to experience that same excitement I had for being creative in English.

One last thing that was my personal favourite during the Enrichment Week was sending out ‘TeacherFavourite Poems’. I wanted to do this because it would be a great opportunity for teachers to connect with students by sharing something they enjoy! Teachers shared little snippets of the reason why they enjoyed the poems they’ve picked — I could definitely see a part of them within the poems.The English Society might actually continue to do that as a monthly or weekly newsletter!

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North London Collegiate School Jeju

Buddy Reading Buddy Reading took place in the Junior School with Years 5 and 6 helping their Year 2 friends by reading aloud and sharing their love of books. Thank you to Ms. Justine Whitney for these lovely pics and well done to all those involved!

Picture of all NLCS Jeju service team

Picture of all NLCS Jeju service team

Picture of all NLCS Jeju service team

Picture of all NLCS Jeju service team

Pictures of the week

Picture byTimothy Draper

North London Collegiate School Jeju

North London Collegiate School Jeju

Picture byTimothy Draper

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