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An updated version of the central document for the International Global Citizen's Award, the IGCA Guide 2018 has been produced.

While much of this remains unchanged from the previous version - Information for Schools (2009) - amendments that have been agreed over recent years are all included.

Also included are guidelines on Silver and Gold level projects.

The new version takes immediate effect.

Guide available at:…

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Matthew Roberts reports:

“We started the year exploring the notions of being International Global Citizens. Students researched different definitions of the words international, global and citizen, then…

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Five students completed the bronze Award in the first year of the Award at the Jakarta International School. Sending the Award plaques to Indonesia was going to be an expensive business – benefiting the courier company more than the artisans in Burkina Faso making the plaques. Julie Pyburn reports “I wrote to you last May about sourcing a local memento and making a donation to a local charity.  I followed through with this,…

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Pathma Naidu has developed an exciting new Pathways Global Citizen's Award for primary age children at the Pathways World School, Aravali, India.

Find out about it in the forums:

Pathways Global Citizens Award for primary school children 1…

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Here at AIS Balikpapan, we have just given out our first years worth of Bronze awards. It was wonderful to see the students congratulated for their hard work and efforts over the last 12 months. 

Our "year" has been a bit disjointed as we ran it from Term 3 2103 until Term 3 2014. When we first started in 2013 we had 8 students. By the start of 2014 we had just about all of our secondary campus involved (we are small but still!) It was great to see how the students were signing up…

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Pathma Naidu from Pathways World School, Aravali, India reports that Team IGCA joined with the PWS Global Citizens Award students in the primary section to develop a Powerpoint presentation for Earth Day, April 22nd.

This was to tell members of the Pathways community about Earth Day - and to suggest some ways in which we can take some simple actions that have environmental benefits.

The presentation is attached.

They produced a similar presentation for Earth Hour on…

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 Award coordinator Ginny Bineypal sent through a report on the school’s first year of the Award.

“The International Class is a group of 23 students between 16 and 17 years old. It is the closest we have to pre IB. Many of these students have lived and studied abroad, and are interested in joining the International Baccalaureate program offered here at the school.

The school has decided to include (our own) course called Meet the World as a part of the syllabus for the class – a…

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APG Bahrain started the IGCA programme at the start of the 2019-20 academic year.

Here is the latest update from APG's IGCA Coordinator John Labor.

“We are now in our end-of-term examinations and we have wrapped up some of the IGCA activities that happened during the first month before the participants concentrated on examinations.

 

We mentors are yet to meet to review the progress of each participant in different grade levels. They have been active in…

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It's now that time of year when students are putting together their portfolio of evidence to present to the group for the Award. Despite guarentees of regular recording, a number of the student I work with haven't really done a great job of recording/logging the activities they have been involved. I came up with the attached spreadsheet to help students record their activities.



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