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We are looking for students who are interested, responsible, creative and willing to get involved and join the Eco-Schools Committee for 2026–27! 🌱 Take this opportunity to help identify environmental priorities, develop projects, organise actions and work with others across our school community. To join, you must fill in the form to enroll in Eco-Schools…

The Valley Times is our school newspaper, written by students, for students. It’s a place to share what’s happening around school, write about things you actually care about, interview people, review music, films or books, cover school events, share opinions, or simply write about something you learnt. This year, we want to make the newspaper…

We have had a request from Valejas, the place where we have sports for OIS-Horizon campus. They would like to have some volunteers to help support their students academically. Since we have a relationship with them for our sports, it would be great if we can reciprocate and build even stronger ties between us and…

Join us for the OIS Film Podcast It will include: Discussions on both old and modern film. Movie news, looking ahead and reacting to the latest headlines, rumours, and trailers. Film criticism – how we should review films. What makes a film good or bad. The opportunity to watch films, and attend film festivals in…

The OIS-Kêlê exchange project is a new legacy project working with Associação Kêlê in São Tomé e Príncipe. Members of the OIS community saw the needs of the Associação, the opportunities for us to do authentic service, and the mutual benefits of being a part of the project. This project gives you a range of…

This CAS activity gives students the opportunity to explore different careers and professional fields while developing their own communication, organisation, leadership, and collaboration skills. Students involved in the activity will organise one lunchtime session per month, inviting a professional working in a field that they or other students may be interested in exploring. The sessions…

Do you like working with IT? Do you like helping people? Do you want to know more than the teachers? Do you want to know state secrets? Well! You probably won´t learn any state secrets! We are looking for volunteers to help with IT support. The role will be supporting students and teachers in troubleshooting…

Maths Peer Tutoring Are you a passionate mathematician looking to make a meaningful impact? Our Maths Peer Tutoring program offers a unique opportunity for Year 12 students to embody the principles of CAS (Creativity, Action, Service). As a tutor, you will guide students from MYP1 to MYP5, helping them develop their conceptual understanding. This is a…

Are you a well being? We need help promoting and making wellbeing more visible in our community – by keeping the Wellbeing Board up to date and relevant, writing articles for the vOISe and making the counselling rooms more inviting. If you are interested, contact Carla Nunes, ASAP.

The ATLs Club is looking for two Year 12 students to help run a weekly peer-support session for younger students, particularly Year 11 students preparing for eAssessments and the transition to the DP. This will happen on Tuesdays during Registration (8:30-8:45). Commitment: Weekly during term time Supervision: ATLs Coordinator, Patrícia Infante da Câmara Student mentors…

Are you a an athlete? Do you like coaching? Working with younger kids? We have a tremendous athletics program at OIS, but with your help, it can be better. We need committed leaders, who enjoy helping younger athletes and who would like to be assistant coaches. If you are interested, contact Dr. Cheira.

We are looking for volunteers to be responsible for taking care of the OIS guitars in the music rooms. The opportunity involves: Tuning, changing strings, cleaning and general maintenance. If you are interested, please contact Ms. Carmo.

Team leaders needed to start and run a Portuguese Club for PYP students in year one and two. The role would be to create activities with Portuguese traditions, cultural days, music, games and help with learning how to read and write in Portuguese. If you are interested, contact Ms. Carvalho ASAP.

We are looking for some Diploma candidates to help with dance choreography for the school production. If you are a dancer and would be interested in helping with this, please contact Ms. Carmo. This can count for creativity and service in CAS. Photo Credit: Paul Kolnikstudio@paulkolnik.comnyc 212-362-7778, Glass Pieces Choreography by Jerome Robbins New York…

“We are delighted to present Art for Inclusion with CerciOeiras— a new creativity and service project that OIS is developing in partnership with CerciOeiras, an organisation dedicated to defending the rights and promoting the inclusion of young people with neurodivergence and disabilities. Once a week, on Wednesdays during the last school period from 14:45, a…

This is going to be an amazing project and you have the opportunity to get in on the ground floor and make this (one of) the best of projects for the school, that will impact our experience here as well as that of the local community. The OIS Eco School team is sowing the seeds…

Are you looking for volunteer ideas for service. Here is an article published in Lisboa Secreto that identifies multiple organizations that are looking for volunteers. Some may have specific requirements such as that you must be 18 years old, but you can contact any organization that looks interesting to you and ask. Remember that these…