What is Mission and Service?
Mission and Service (M&S) is at the heart of the ISR Secondary Programme. M&S Groups and Activities are student-led. Students plan and implement on their own while teachers only give suggestions and advice. The values embedded in the Mission Statement, Latvian Heart,
and Service, drive students’ club proposals.
All secondary students are required to participate in ISR’s M&S programme which is alloted a weekly, scheduled, time slot. The M&S programme starts in August of every school year and all ideas are student-generated. Once a semester there is an M&S Sharing session where students share their evidence and reflections from the semester.
Throughout the semester students are expected to achieve the following aims and goals:
- Demonstrate commitment to local and global communities and adhere to responsibilities towards each other and the environment.
- Explore new possibilities, embrace new challenges and become leaders and creators;
- Enjoy and find significance in a range of M&S Student Groups & Activities;
- Purposefully reflect upon and learn from their experiences;
- Identify goals, develop strategies and determine further actions for advancement within the ISR and Latvian communities;
CAS
Creativity, activity, service (CAS) is one of the three essential elements that every student must complete as part of the Diploma Programme (DP).
CAS enables students to enhance their personal and interpersonal development by learning through experience. It provides opportunities for self-determination and collaboration with others, fostering a sense of accomplishment and enjoyment from their work.
International School of Riga is a Candidate School* for the IB MYP. This school is pursuing authorization as an IB World School. These are schools that share a common philosophy—a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that ISR believes is important for our students. *Only schools authorized by the IB Organization can offer any of its four academic programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), the Diploma Programme (DP), or the Career-related Programme (CP). Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted. For further information about the IB and its programmes, visit http://www.ibo.org.
