community engagement Tag

02 May

Posted at 12:32h in Community Development, Enrichment, Photo Gallery, Student Views

Students from one of Community Engagement's most successful projects, Professional Development for Farmers, speak about their experience; What they have done this semester, what this has achieved, and how it has impacted their own lives.   What is the Professional Development for Farmers Project? "In 2015, as part of Activity Week, a group...

30 Jan

Posted at 14:11h in Centre for Imagination, Education Matters, Enrichment, Summer at Woodstock

Woodstock Student Shanti Mathias introduces Aspire, our new summer school programme for budding social entrepreneurs.  Woodstock School has a long-term commitment to community service. This has led to some extraordinary achievements of student innovation in leadership roles. But what if there was a way to spread the advantages of the Community Engagement...

07 Dec

Posted at 16:51h in All, Community Development, Photo Gallery

Last Saturday three volunteers from Samvedna, the centre for children with mental and physical disabilities in a nearby village, visited Woodstock. They led a training morning for the seven Woodstock students who go to the centre once a week to interact with the children there as part of a Community...

24 Nov

Posted at 11:00h in All

Yesterday, Woodstock acknowledged the much appreciated contribution of its employees with the annual Employees' Day celebration. The day's events are organised by a committee of staff members and students, and Woodstock students and staff members take on the school's employees' responsibilities so they can take part in fun activities. The afternoon started with sports on...

28 Oct

Posted at 11:59h in Community Development, Enrichment, Photo Gallery

Self-help Groups (SHGs) are self-governed, peer controlled, informal groups of people with the same socio-economic background and have a desire to collectively perform a common goal. Through Woodstock’s Community Engagement program, a group of our students are working alongside a group of 54 women who share the desire to micro-bank....

25 Aug

Posted at 16:13h in Education Matters, Outdoor Learning

Earlier this week students from our DOST team (Development Outreach Student Team) had their first trip this school year to Dunda village, as part of Woodstock's community engagement programme. They sat down with the residents and gave their project proposals. Each project was approved by the community which means we...