Rotary Junior Community Award A program to develop

Rotary Junior Community Award A program to develop citizenship and community values in Grade 6 students This presentation was made to the International Rotary Convention in Sydney 2014 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION

History of the Rotary Junior Community Award • Initiative of Past Rotarian David Hawkey, Chairman of the Community Relations Education Project, in 1997 • Part of a pilot program to address racism and violence in the Bairnsdale community. • Began as the Bairnsdale Junior Community Award

History of the Rotary Junior Community Award • Developed and trialed by Bairnsdale teachers for four years. • In 1998 the Rotary Club of Mitchell sponsored the program and promoted it as Rotary Junior Community Award to schools in Rotary District 9820 and further afield.

Aims of the Award 1. To raise the level of knowledge in children of the range of values in their community. 2. To give a greater understanding of what makes our community work.

Aims of the Award 3. To provide an opportunity for children to experience the satisfaction of community service 4. To give children an opportunity to see and understand their own potential value to the community regardless of academic, physical or other abilities

The Award Promotes • Leadership • Confidence • Self worth • Knowledge • Skills for life • Positive values • Social values

The Junior Community Award has four areas – Community service – Social Experience – Physical experience – Skills

Community Service • Regular assistance to a person or community group • Ten weeks of service of one hour per week

Social Experience • Take part in a community commemoration • Attend a community meeting • Find out about someone else’s religious beliefs • Attend an arts performance • Experience another culture • Identify local environmental issue

Example of Diary Entry

Community Commemoration

ANZAC Day 2014

Community Meeting

Rotary Meeting

Religious Experience