As the school term concludes, here are some updates from our Interact Club.
Threeweeks ago, we concluded our second project for the year, Picture Books for Children. In this project, Interactees drafted, drew and wrote their own picture books across eight weeks. These books will be added to our 'BackPack4VICKids' drive, where necessities are donated to vulnerable children. This project is being co-headed by the Social Justice Portfolio at our school.
We devised this idea as an easy-to-implement, engaging project that resulted in handmade books with positive messages and uplifting morals for children in need. This aligns with our theme of reaching out to the wider community- this time, instead of senior citizens, to children. Our club members created these with online tools or by hand, overseen by Interact Director Cici.
As for the previous project, Cards to the Elderly, we ended up creating a visiting program to the Alba, starting with a musical performance by so-inclined Interactees during the first visit. We sent regular groups to the Alba every Thursday for six weeks, where we fostered a deeper bond with residents before finally gifting them the cards at the end. This made the experience more meaningful to both students and the elderly overall.
Lastly, we have recently started our new project, Paper Stars, led by our director Rachel. This project target's community was our own school- Interactees are writing thank-you messages for teachers on strips of paper and folding them into stars. The Executive Team will construct bouquets of these star 'flowers' to present to our teachers to thank them. We are amassing a cardboard box full of small paper stars and will continue this project in Term 3.
Thank you for reading, and I hope this report was helpful!
We devised this idea as an easy-to-implement, engaging project that resulted in handmade books with positive messages and uplifting morals for children in need. This aligns with our theme of reaching out to the wider community- this time, instead of senior citizens, to children. Our club members created these with online tools or by hand, overseen by Interact Director Cici.
As for the previous project, Cards to the Elderly, we ended up creating a visiting program to the Alba, starting with a musical performance by so-inclined Interactees during the first visit. We sent regular groups to the Alba every Thursday for six weeks, where we fostered a deeper bond with residents before finally gifting them the cards at the end. This made the experience more meaningful to both students and the elderly overall.
Lastly, we have recently started our new project, Paper Stars, led by our director Rachel. This project target's community was our own school- Interactees are writing thank-you messages for teachers on strips of paper and folding them into stars. The Executive Team will construct bouquets of these star 'flowers' to present to our teachers to thank them. We are amassing a cardboard box full of small paper stars and will continue this project in Term 3.
Thank you for reading, and I hope this report was helpful!
Kind regards,
Nusayeeba Zohra, Interact Secretary.
