FIRST ANNUAL SERVICE LEARNING CONFERENCE FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS
On Saturday 2nd February 2019, The Roman Ridge School hosted student delegations from eight international schools in Accra for an interactive student-led conference, that focused on the importance for schools to encourage Community Service Project Work and Service Learning. It sought to provide students with a platform to share their experiences with Service Learning and interact with one another.
Students delivered presentations capturing the various service projects ongoing in their schools and explained how their projects are impacting positively on their communities. Each group provided valuable insight to understand and learn how they plan their projects, set budgets, galvanize support, fundraise, keep proper accounts and execute successful projects of integrity.
Our hope, is that interactions like these will further nurture and unify a committed group of young people, across the country and region, to use the privilege of their education to innovate and take action towards securing a brighter future for the wider community and nation as a whole.
THE RIDGE READERS CLUB & DZORWULU A & B PRIMARY SCHOOL
Ridge Readers is a student-led community service initiative launched in June 2016 by the Class of 2017 that remains very active to date. Ridge Readers seeks to promote literacy and holds programmes with Junior pupils in school and also provides literacy outreach to communities in need. Twice weekly, students from our Sixth Form College and Senior School meet with their reading buddies in the Junior School for an hour to read together, interact and bond. This programme has fostered very strong relationships between older and younger students, that extends far beyond their reading sessions.
The Class of 2019 established a special relationship with a nearby local school called Dzorwulu A & B Primary School through their weekly visits with Ridge Readers over the years, organising a school wide book drive that collected hundreds of storybooks for the children of the school. From their discussions with the students and teachers of the school, they learned that the school was in desperate need of a reliable water supply, immediate refurbishment to their washroom facility, as well as lights and fans in their classrooms. On 23rd March 2019, the Class of 2019 organised a sponsored walk and raised almost £10,000. Later, on Thursday 20th June 2019 they proudly handed over a newly renovated Washroom Block and a new reliable water system for the school with provision for a maintenance budget to cater for any repair works that might be needed in the coming year, alongside new lights and ceiling fans installed in each classroom.