Student Life and Service
Community Engagement & Appreciation Day 2025 During the last week of last Academic Year, the Secondary
School hosted its third annual Community Engagement & Appreciation Day which helped showcase how important service and community engagement is to the Concordian community through a variety of exhibitions, interactive activities, and displays of appreciation. One large change this year, however, was to make the day more inclusive of the entire secondary school, not just MYP students, and also included a session for parents. As has been the case with the previous events, the day was divided into three clear, and different sessions - Action, Sharing and Fun. First thing in the morning, when the students were full of energy, we undertook Action. During this session, students rotated between four activities: sorting recycling, packing care packages to be delivered to three of our Middle School Community Engagement partners, interacting with a community-centered art activity, and writing thank you notes to members of the Concordian community that help to create a safe learning environment for us year round. The recycling activity saw students help teachers clear recyclables from their classrooms, as well as sorting out recyclable material from their lockers, and recyclable materials that had been collected throughout the year. The care package activity was sponsored by one of our high school service clubs, Food For All, and students helped pack bags with food and toiletries which were then delivered to Baan Nokkamin, Concordia Day Care, and Foundation for Slum Child Care, Onnut. All the products that were packed had been bought from funds that Food For All had raised throughout the year.
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The community-based art activity was created and overseen by Mr. Patrick and Ms. Abby, and saw students create plasticine models of members of our Concordian community, with different colored plasticine representing several members of the community.
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And the final activity of the morning saw students writing thank you notes to all members of the Concordian community working on campus, from teachers to administration, from security guards to gardeners, from technicians to drivers - all members were represented, and students had a chance to thank everyone for making our school what it is.