Community engagement

At the International School Eindhoven we care for, connect with and contribute to the local and global community. All secondary students are expected to engage with their own, and other communities and will explore the nature of various communities, their needs and how to take action in service of the community need. Our dedication to community engagement is illustrated by our Service Learning programmes, that run through our whole curriculum. Our students demonstrate their caring nature through these programmes and how well this IB learning attribute has been embedded within our practices.

In the Middle Years Programme (MYP) students are engaged with various social initiatives for their Service as Action programme. Examples of these projects are: picking apples at the local fruit orchard to donate to the foodbank, visiting elderly in local pension homes, organising a schoolwide fundraising event for a school in Kenya and sharing life stories with refugees in the Eindhoven area.

In the Diploma Programme (DP) students fulfil the Service element of their Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS) programme by a wide variety of options, such as volunteering at the local animal shelter, writing letters though Amnesty International to people whose human rights have been violated and organising sport events for economically disadvantaged children in the local community.

Furthermore, as the ISE community as a whole, we regularly take part in various charity events to contribute to the needs of different groups of people in the local and global community.