Community Service
"One of the key aims at Norwich School is for pupils to take up opportunities for leadership and service so that they can prepare to be forces for good in society throughout their lives. For us, these are separate but related concepts and we are keen that our pupils have experience of each one.
The Community Service programme is the backbone of this element of our provision and as such there is a range and quality of activities through which pupils can make a positive contribution to the wider community. Another key aim is for pupils to fulfil their unique potential by making the most of the breadth of opportunities available while they are at school in Cathedral Close, offering a wide range of ways in which our pupils can get involved."
Mrs Ward
Head of Community Service
A Message from the Head:
“We obviously hope that our pupils will provide benefit through their Community Service placement. However, we are also clear that they learn a great deal by thinking of others for a portion of their week and interacting with amazing people, both inside and outside school; we hope therefore that the programme gives them new skills and stimulates their curiosity in the world around them, the third of our pupil aims.
The Community Service programme lies at the heart of all that we want for our pupils in terms of the balanced education that we seek to offer.”
Community Service News
By Eleanor Lewis
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February 12, 2025
Emilia Meade (L6) has been supporting Infant Dance at the Lower School for her Community Service, she reports on the experience below; Helping out with Infant dance at the Norwich Lower School has been such a rewarding experience. I have noticed that clear instructions and demonstrations really help them learn the choreography better as well as a fun and supportive environment. In each dance session we explore different dance styles such as ballet and jazz, I help the children grasp the different techniques and I also lead various teamwork activities. To help the class have a better understanding of the dynamics, the movements are compared to different animals, for example, graceful like a butterfly, stomping like an elephant. The class always do a warm up before dancing and learning a dance routine lead by the dance teacher. Overall, Infant dance has inspired a love for dance in the children, and it has been incredible to watch and help them develop their skills while having fun.
By Eleanor Lewis
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February 7, 2025
The 2025 Amnesty Variety Evening was a roaring success. Co-host and organiser of the evening, Rosie Pank, reports on the event; Last week, I had the pleasure of running this year’s Amnesty Variety Evening, allowing me to organise many talented performers in support of different refugee support groups and charities that we get to work with throughout the year. Our main charities we have been raising money for this year are English Plus, which is run across Norwich to help people learn English, allowing them to have opportunities such as careers and educations. We also support Nancy Oldfield Trust and have an ongoing bicycle restoration project that fixes old bikes and delivers them to refugee hotels around Norwich, providing them with a small bit of freedom each day. My favourite part about this evening was meeting different people who come to support the show, from many different areas of life and also watching our fantastic school community come together in such an enthusiastic ways to help support others. At this year’s variety evening, there were a plethora of different talents on display from the staff band to a dance troupe of pupils from Norwich school, Jane Austen and the City of Norwich School. After working with the dance troupe for the last few weeks, it was extremely rewarding to watch the mix of pupils across age groups and schools, getting on so well and creating friendships as they work together, and watching them come to life on stage as a group for the final time. After watching the show each year, it was a pleasure to be able to return this year as a compere along with Nicholas Conway, introducing the performers, and sharing some information about the importance of each charity we support and the wider amnesty community. It was a great success this year, with the audience being incredibly generous helping us raise lots of money for our charities, and I hope next year’s show is just as successful, and that we get to be involved again! Thank you to Mia Scarborough, L6 from the Close Creatives Collective , who took a selection of the images below.
By Eleanor Lewis
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October 16, 2024
"Being chair of the Close Conversations podcast was by far the highlight of the Lower 6th Year. Taking over from the extremely successful year prior, the pressure was high to continue the standard, but I am glad to say that I believe we did this with resounding success. We began by recording shorter episodes, touching on events throughout the year, including foundation of different societies, such as the Wellington Geo-Politics Society, and Charitable events, such as Challenge 29, whereby participants would challenge themselves to 29 different things throughout the month of February. As a result, this saw many, both pupils and staff, choose to get more involved in these events throughout the year. Moving Further into the term, we slowly extended the lengths of our episodes, to be more in depth and cover a range of both studio and in person interviews. Consequently, we expanded out topic areas into the wide range of sports and their fixtures played here at Norwich School, our first of which was covering the much-anticipated hocky block fixture against Gresham’s. However, this swiftly expanded, as we were lucky enough to interview members of the Dance team, surrounding the Senior Dance Festival, and members of the Cricket First Team, surrounding their Tour in South Africa. As we entered the hight of the school year, there were a number of events to be covered. Most notably, both the Annual School Cup Run, and the Senior play: Clue, took place. Despite the obvious mixed feelings towards Cup Run, the rest of the of the Close Conversations team and I were able to get a plethora of interviews on the day, as well as previous winners Bea Wells and Nick Conway in the studio for a more in-depth discussion about the event and their feelings towards the event as a whole. As a result, we were able to put together what is my personal favourite episode of the year, as well as the longest. Overall, as previously stated, being Chair of the Close Conversations podcast was by far the highlight of my Lower 6th year, having strongly influenced my university degree choice, of media and communications. Despite the challenges faced of organising interviews, tireless editing, and the radio room going under reconstruction in the Trinity Term, resulting in some creative solutions to keep the podcast up and running, I could not have asked for a greater experience, or a greater team. I am so thankful for the opportunity to have taken on such as role and would highly recommend it to anyone who has the chance." - Chris Doylend, U6
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