Community Service
LIV girls participate in the School's Dove Award programme which includes independent work to help in the local community or support a charity of their choice. The Duke of Edinburgh Award schemes offer further opportunities for community service.
In UVI girls have an opportunity of service to the local community in three different ways:
- Placements in local schools, play groups, old people's homes, secondary and primary schools for disabled children, riding for the disabled and in a local hospice day centre.
- The Cressex literacy programme: ten students assist in classes at a local multi-racial comprehensive school with which we have a partnership, with the aim of supporting literacy.
- The Horizon Sports Club which is a recreational club for young people with disabilities which helps to assist them, both physically and socially, through sport and recreation. The swimming section takes place each Thursday in our School pool under the direction and supervision of the club leader and the swimming coaches. Girls in LVI may volunteer to join the team for the Summer term and to continue until the end of the Spring term in their final year. Funds are also raised for Horizons through Highlights, our annual Advanced Dance Show.
In different ways each of these programmes offers an opportunity, in an otherwise very exam focussed year, to serve others, sharing gifts and talents but also discovering how rewarding this can be and learning about the wider world and themselves in the process.
