{"id":15975,"date":"2017-04-11T13:23:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=15975"},"modified":"2017-04-11T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:27:29","slug":"s6-service-2016-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/s6-service-2016-17\/","title":{"rendered":"S6 Service 2016-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a long and strong tradition of Service at St Ninian\u2019s High School, stemming from our belief that we are called by Christ to serve others.\u00a0\u00a0 In this academic year\u00a0over 200\u00a0of our S6 pupils have participated in the S6 Service Programme.<\/p>\n<p>The S6 Service Programme, organised by Miss Milne, enables our young people to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reflect upon\u00a0their vocation and reach out in love to others<\/li>\n<li>Develop\u00a0their leadership, teamwork and communication skills<\/li>\n<li>Act as excellent role models to younger pupils<\/li>\n<li>Become ambassadors for St Ninian\u2019s in the local community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our pupils have volunteered significant amounts of\u00a0time within and outwith school to help others in so many ways.\u00a0 This has included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Supporting pupils in\u00a0St Ninian&#8217;s\u00a0through Buddying, Mentoring, Tutoring and Extra-Curricular Sports Clubs<\/li>\n<li>Associated Primary Schools and Isobel Mair School<\/li>\n<li>Age Concern Eastwood Dementia Project<\/li>\n<li>Eastwood Residential Care Home<\/li>\n<li>Glenwood Nursery<\/li>\n<li>Local Charity Shops<\/li>\n<li>Wayside Club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are a selection of quotes from our S6 pupils on their experience:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>This gave me confidence in my own ability to talk to large groups of people.\u00a0 It helped me speak more clearly and concisely.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I have enjoyed watching the pupil improve their confidence in Maths on a weekly basis. I have also enjoyed helping her in general with anything else she was unsure about.\u00a0 It is satisfying to know that I have helped her.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I enjoyed engaging with people at the charity shop and working with others.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>In the care home, I could see that some of the elderly people were lonely and I loved seeing how animated they would get when they had a conversation with me.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a long and strong tradition of Service at St Ninian\u2019s High School, stemming from our belief that we are called by Christ to serve others.\u00a0\u00a0 In this academic year\u00a0over 200\u00a0of<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/s6-service-2016-17\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15977,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15975\/revisions\/15977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}