62 VSA It’s been another very busy year for the VSA! VSA has helped tackle important issues through letters, posters and boards to make the community within school and outside a better place. Through activities such as visiting care homes to perform small concerts and having conversations with its residents to learning sign language,VSA demonstrates the importance of communication, as well as helping others and the community. Our senior leaders worked hard during the Michaelmas term teaching the younger students about important topics such as homelessness, global volunteering and sustainability, widening their awareness of topical issues. As the pandemic lessened our ability to be together in person, our spirit to help others never declined. The School came together to contribute towards the making of Christmas hampers which were given to local care homes as we could not celebrate together at the annual Christmas party, but we still wanted to share the festive joy! In Lent Term, the VSA may have been in bubbles but this did not stop our hard work! Year 9 competed in the fundraising competition for ‘Wings of Hope’, who support schools in India and Africa. They wrote a VSA cookbook which they sold to raise funds and they even organised a community litterpick event during lockdown, working with the true values of the VSA of virtue, action and collaboration. Year 10 completed an invaluable first aid course, allowing them to better themselves as members of the wider community. The community garden flourished, as Year 11 committed to bettering our green spaces, including those in the Prep School.
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