Shore aims to build capacity and understanding in our boys to serve outwardly in our community, as part of our Christian ethos and aims as a school.

Our Service Learning programme inspires them to volunteer their time and efforts for the benefit of others. In doing so, they will learn and live by the core values of the service ideal – respect, humility, integrity, care and gratitude.

The programme offers a range of learning activities that extend beyond the classroom. Our younger students in Kindergarten and Prep School visit nursing homes while Senior School students participate in a range of camps and volunteer in community service initiatives. These are enriching environments in which they can develop a broad mindset that builds teamwork, empathy, compassion, inclusivity and a sense of community.

The programme is conducted by the Teachers in the younger year groups in the Prep School and the Houses and Tutor Groups in the Senior School, and create the opportunity for the students to participate in the work of non-profit organisations including, but not limited to Rough Edges, Cancer Council, the Salvation Army, World Vision and Anglicare.

Nursing Home Visits

Selected students from Year 1 spend time at St Paul’s Nursing Home at Northbridge during the last two weeks of each term. This partnership with St Paul's is a valuable part of our Service Learning programme and provides them with a great opportunity to learn social and collaboration skills in a supportive environment. The children undertake fun activities with the residents, such as creating autumn-inspired paintings and making music together. 
Nursing Home Visits

Rough Edges

Rough Edges is a faith-based, not-for-profit organisation that provides free meals for disadvantaged and homeless people in the Darlinghurst area of Sydney. Shore has a longstanding relationship with Rough Edges and our Service Learning programme organises work shifts at the café for our students and staff. Each week during Term time, they assist on Tuesday evenings, serving food, playing games and engaging with patrons in the café.

Rough Edges

Broderick Gillawarna

Since 2006, our Year 10 boys spend one day a week - over a five-week period - assisting at Broderick Gillawarna, a school catering for students with disabilities in Revesby, NSW. This programme has proven to be an inspiring experience for the boys, giving them a first-hand opportunity to help students from other schools while enhancing their own understanding of inclusivity and diversity.

Broderick Gillawarna

Service Learning Camps

Our Service Learning camps offer the experience of deep immersion in a caring community. Here, the ideal of service is not only ‘taught’ but ‘caught’ as the students learn to serve at many different levels and benefit from the notion that experience is the greatest of all teachers.

Sony Camp

Held in conjunction with Pymble Ladies' College, the Sony Foundation Children's Holiday Camp Programme runs every two years and gives our Year 11 students the opportunity to care for children with special needs over a four-day period. Our guests stay on site at the Boarding Houses and are treated to a fun camp full of thrilling and exciting adventures. Our student volunteers are supported by a team of dedicated teaching and medical staff, and gain valuable first-hand experience in caring for children with special needs.

Sony Camp

Arnhem Land

In the first week of the September school holidays, Year 11 students have an opportunity to travel to North East Arnhem Land with Culture College. The boys are accompanied by teachers and support staff from Culture College to stay on a Homeland and live on-country with the local community for six days. They are educated in the rich culture and history of the First Nations peoples and enjoy many activities learning how to appreciate the Land and Nature, learning the importance of ‘never taking more than is needed’. It is a formative once-in-a-lifetime experience for Shore students.
Arnhem Land

Philippines

Year 11 students will have the opportunity, at the end of the year, to travel to The Philippines and work with International Care Ministries, a Christian mission led mainly by Filipinos and financially supported by global partners. This first-hand encounter with communities in the developing world helps foster a deeper understanding of the quality of life they enjoy at home in Australia and inspires the boys to contribute to charitable causes as they move beyond high school.
Philippines