Community partnership

Details and eligibility

This award will recognise a school initiative that is being implemented that involves students as community partners, working in collaboration with an external group to develop impact in the community. The external group could include other schools, organisations, or people within the local or global community.

Your application needs to include evidence of the development of authentic partnership(s) between your students and an external group/community to identify and undertake collaborative action. Fund-raising events alone are not eligible.

Your application must focus on one school initiative and address the following criteria:

• How and why an initiative has involved students engaging with an external community to identify the authentic needs of that community
• How students have developed a collaborative partnership with an external community in order to support change
• Evidence of how the initiative has developed authentic impact for both the students and the external community
• How the initiative has been developed as a long-lasting initiative for the school; one that can be improved and developed over time and could be sustainable through successive staff changes
• Evidence of the strategies that are enabling this initiative to be shared with other schools (this could include links to details about this initiative on a public website, on public access YouTube video(s), through publicly accessible media, or details of community engagement, conference or workshop presentation)

Evidence requirements

Five photographs. Photographic evidence must be limited to five photographs only. Each photograph must be supported with an explanatory caption.

One video. Your video should explain/show your initiative including evidence of its success within the criteria required.