How it works
Ready to run next term.
Your teacher runs a weekly session, in any slot you choose: over one term, one year, or a compressed two weeks. CGCS handles everything around it.
The 5 Ms
How students grow, stop by stop
- Prepare
- Engage
- Reflect
- Evidence
- Progress
The question students answer
How do I enter responsibly?
What it builds
Cultural humility, ethical participation
Where it happens
Weekly sessions, weeks 1–3
Students examine their motivations, skills and readiness, and what they actually bring to the work.
Weeks 1–3 · about 6 hours
Week by week
Week 1
Why service, why me
In the session
Orientation and a walk through the learning platform. Students audit the skills, motivations and expectations they arrive with.
Students produce
Opening journal entry: what I bring, and what I want to change
Week 2
Values, identity and position
In the session
Guided discussion on position and assumption. A case study of a well-meant project that did harm, and why.
Students produce
Journal entry on assumptions about the host community
Week 3
Strengths, gaps and goals
In the session
A skills inventory and a peer feedback round. Students set personal goals for the project ahead.
Students produce
Personal readiness statement
Use the arrow keys to move between stops.
Evidence is collected throughout, not only at the end.
Capabilities students build
- Self-leadership
- Working across difference
- Making things happen
- Understanding the bigger picture
- Reflection and continued action
Your term, week by week
Pick a slot. We fill the weeks.
Every version is 26 hours of guided study, the same five modules and the same diploma. Find the one that fits your school.
13 weeks · 2 hours a week
No extra homework. All 26 hours are in class.
Example slot: every Friday, 1:00–3:00 pm
Week 1
Fri 1:00
Week 2
Fri 1:00
Week 3
Fri 1:00
Week 4
Fri 1:00
Week 5
Fri 1:00
Week 6
Fri 1:00
Week 7
Fri 1:00
Week 8
Fri 1:00
Week 9
Fri 1:00
Week 10
Fri 1:00
Week 11
Fri 1:00
Week 12
Fri 1:00
Week 13
Fri 1:00
The holiday
After
3 × Fri 1:00 (optional)
Back home
● Portfolio set up
● Module 1 done
● Module 2 done
● Plan drafted
● Plan submitted
● Travel-ready
● Certificate
1 · Mindset
Inner Exploration
2 · Motivation
Global Readiness
3 · Making It Happen
Impact & Engagement
4 · Momentum
Fieldwork
5 · Meaning
Capstone
Your teacher
Runs each session with our plans, slides and workbook. Writes no curriculum and marks nothing. Or we supply a facilitator.
CGCS
A free 3-hour CPD session in Global Citizenship and programme delivery before you start, office hours each term, a named contact, a check-in before travel, and all the marking.
The result: an Ofqual-regulated Level 3 diploma · 16 UCAS points (an AS-Level at grade B) · awarded by NOCN
Three optional reflection sessions in your usual slot, after the project. They count within the 26 hours: without them, students do this work on their own.
We fit any version to your term dates and your trip. Any slot in the week works.
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Build it from your own term datesGetting started
Four steps to your first session
- 1
Book a 20-minute call
We look at your timetable and which students it suits.
- 2
Get your launch kit
Student and parent information, ready to send home.
- 3
Train your teacher
A free 3-hour CPD session in Global Citizenship and programme delivery, with check-ins after. Or we supply a facilitator.
- 4
Students log in
The sessions start the following week.
Schools can launch one week after the first call.
Build my programme