Community Projects that Matter

June 04, 2015 — On Friday last week Somersfield Academy hosted its M3 Class of 2015 Community Project. The M3 Community Project focuses on community and service, encouraging students to explore their rights and responsibility to implement service as action in the community.

The Community Project gives students opportunity to develop awareness of needs in various communities and address those needs through service learning. As students evolve through the service learning process, they engage in one or more types of action: direct service, indirect service, advocacy and research.

The M3 Class of 2015 devoted a great deal of time and effort to their projects which were showcased last Friday at Somersfield Academy.

Projects included:

• Supporting Windreach’s Life Skills Programme
  Victoria Mello, Asia Seymour, and Jaedah Trott
  Project Goal: To raise up to 1,000 dollars for the life skills programme at Windreach during different fundraisers.

• Upper Primary Homework Club
  Derek Tucker-Peters, Mason Outerbridge, and Chiemeka Raynor
  Project Goal: To promote and assist with the homework club for P5s and P6s and make them more motivated to do homework.

• The Barn Awareness Campaign
  Yassine Chentouf, Kobe Easton, and Carraic O’Donnell
  Project Goal: To raise awareness for The Barn by creating a facebook page, an awareness video and an assembly presentation.

• Be Active Sports Club
  Alexandre Bordage, Quincy Kuzyk, and Adam Larson
  Project Goal: To create a fun sports club for young children to encourage a healthy, competitive and active lifestyle to help themselves and the Bermudian Community.

• Jump for Bermuda
  Jordan Hendrickson, Jada Outerbridge, and Hasna Turner
  Project Goal: We have come to spread the sport of jump rope. Also to help reduce the obesity rate in Bermuda by showing the community a new, fun way to exercise.

• Chapters for Children
  Nkenege Boyles, Lauren DeSousa, and Briana Medeiros
  Project Goal: To institute a reading and writing programme for children aged 3-5 at Bermuda Montessori School to foster an early love for reading and to help increase the childhood literacy rate.

• Asistencia Espanol: Spanish Assistance
  Torben Axelsen, Gabrielle Madeiros, and Chyrsda Smith
  Project Goal: To create a Spanish lunchtime programme for P4 students at Harrington Sound Primary School that teaches basic vocabulary and culture over the course of seven weeks.

• Somersfield Stars: Relay for Life
  Rylee Gardner, Shane White, and Josai Williams
  Project Goal: Our goal is to create a team of 10 or more people that will join the Relay for Life to represent Somersfield while also raising money to support the cause of radiation therapy in Bermuda.

• Clear Oceans Group
  Luke Madeiros, Sam Morris, and Xela Swan
  Project Goal: To raise awareness in Bermuda for Marine Dumping (Debris). We will be making a website, filming a documentary which will be premiered at the Green Flag Ceremony, and organising a beach clean-up.

• Bottles for Bermuda
  Regan Brewer, Mackenzie Paul, and Charlotte Toogood
  Project Goal: To instigate a change in the image of reusable water bottles by designing trendy and reusable bottles and then selling them for donations towards a local environmental organisation.