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Appendix B continued What is not Recognised as Service?

• Social and personal development activities that involve simply being a member of an organisation, for example: belonging to a sports team, participating in a drama club, playing in a band, singing in a choir. • Personal development activities, for example: regular attendance at religious services, participation in work experience or workplace learning, completing courses that primarily benefit the student. • Service undertaken as punishment or for atonement, for example: rubbish duty at lunchtime, cleaning graffiti off a desk, sorting lost property. • General College activities that contribute to a student’s personal development, for example: performing in a College sporting team, participating in a College drama production. • Home or family duties and responsibilities that are a part of being in a family, for example: helping parents with or at their work/business, doing chores for your grandparents. • Any activity that receives payment, for example: umpiring a sports match, babysitting. • Travel time to service-related activities. • Picking up papers in a park or at the beach on your own will not be counted as service. • Activities supervised by parents will not be accepted. Instead, we recommend joining organised groups like Griffith University’s Beachcare Programme where official supervisors can work alongside the students and independently verify the hours completed. Note: Additional information can be found in the Middle Years Programme (MYP) Students Guide, available on My Somerset Learning .

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