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SERVICE LEARNING

 As an authorized IB school, Pan American School encourages our students to become open-minded, risk-taking and caring citizens. Starting with our own small community and expanding out to the global, international community, we aim to develop empathy and create awareness through the give and take interaction with ourselves and the other members of our community.

As we struggle to develop open-minded citizens that are not only knowledgeable of issues concerning their communities, but also actively involved in its improvement, the PAS service learning program aims to provide students with ample opportunities to experience a truly multicultural atmosphere and interact with their peers more directly, thus adding humanitarian traits to the numerous, high-quality experiences PAS students have in their academic programs.

Students become aware of and engage in service learning as they start Elementary School. As they reach Middle School (MS) and High School (HS), expanded activities will help develop community service opportunities.

PURPOSE 

For students to experience working for a cause involving people from different backgrounds than their own. 

  • To familiarize students with people of different age groups. 
  • To encourage students to become self-motivated. 
  • To encourage student creativity in organizing activities. 
  • To allow students to grow in the ability to work jointly with other people. 
  • To reach out to parts of the community in need of volunteers. 
  • To offer the students valuable work experience. 
  • To fulfill an ever-increasing prerequisite for admission into universities abroad. 
  • To promote the school in the greater Porto Alegre community. 

GUIDELINES 

Service learning is a graduation requirement for High School students and an expectation for Middle School  students.  

  • High school students are expected to complete 10 hours of service per year.
  • Before graduating students are required to have completed 40 hours of service learning throughout high school.
  • Middle school students are expected to complete two service activities per school year.