#YoungEditors: 'Real wealth is hard work'

Beginning this week, the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) and Gulf News bring you a weekly initiative that encourages pupils from schools to report, write and design their own page in the newspaper in a competition that enables them to hone their writing, reading and visual news presentation skills. This week: Jumeirah Baccalaureate School

The Year of Zayed is not only about remembering the Father of the Nation, but also the virtues he lived by and instilled within the heart of the country. One of these many virtues that the founding father of the UAE so strongly lived by was human development. “The real wealth is hard work that benefits the person and the community. It is immortal and eternal and forms the value of the human and the nation.”
Both the UAE and JBS (Jumeirah Baccalaureate School) have always held human development in high regard. Here at JBS, we have our very own initiative where we aim to help the community using a variety of different methods — whether it be by organising an event to raise awareness or teaching others new skills. This initiative goes by the name of Creativity, Activity and Service, CAS for short. It is one of the core components of the Diploma programme and every IB student must organise his/her own set of activities which fulfil the eight learning outcomes.

The eight learning outcomes that can be associated with CAS activities are ethics, global value, initiative, challenge, new skills, awareness, commitment and collaboration. Different activities have different learning outcomes and by the end of the academic year, all of them must be fulfilled. This type of initiative has a very strong bond to Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan’s beliefs and morals. He has always stated that hard work was incredibly important to him; he believed that one that works hard would be the one to succeed.

Shaikh Zayed found fulfilment in hard work that benefits oneself and the community. In 2018, we hope to ensure that human development initiatives have a ‘Burj’ size impact — in making the Year of Zayed a year of development but, most importantly, of hard work.

The eight learning outcomes that can be associated with CAS (Creativity, Activity and Service) activities are: Ethics, global value, initiative, challenge, new skills, awareness, commitment and collaboration.

Read more:http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/education/young-editors/youngeditors-real-wealth-is-hard-work-1.2183470