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At MBIS the IGC students have been undertaking further activities as follows:

1) Fund-raising Charity Day

The IGC Students planned and implemented a fund-raising charity day at MBIS.  They set up a variety of stalls for students and parents to purchase home-made cakes and lemonade, second-hand goods and home-made arts/crafts.  We also had a "Mufti Day" where students paid a voluntary contribution to come to school in non-uniform.  The total raised was just over 10,000…

Below is the view of one of our students about how the IGC Award at MBIS is going so far:

What did we do during this club?

The first day of the club, we have learned a little more about ourselves as global citizens. We did it by answering question that really helped us in to thinking what things we should keep doing and what things we should improve, in order to become very good global citizens. I was very enthusiastic of our first day of IGCA, because from that…

At MBIS we have just begun our IGC journey and the first 3 weeks have gone very well.  We have 18 students who have opted to start the IGC award, aged 11-14 years old.  We will meet as a group as part of the school's after school activities programme, so far having had 3 meetings.

Meeting 1: Students were made aware of the components of the Award and the Ning space, we brainstormed ideas for what we could do towards each component.  Students were also asked…