Values in Action

Learn how Unity Secondary School students put their values into practice through real-world community projects, guided by Design Thinking to address social issues with empathy and care.

Last updated 29 July 2026

In Unity Secondary School, Values in Action (VIA) is a platform where students demonstrate their understanding of the various contemporary issue themes such as environment and active citizenship. All students will get an opportunity to apply what they have learnt in the classroom in the real-world context, demonstrating and appreciating values such as empathy when they plan and execute their VIA projects.

To this end, we adopt an Active Learning approach in structuring Design Thinking into our CCE-VIA lessons. Design Thinking is used as a framework to compare and question perspectives of an issue at hand. This helps students to make sense of what they have learnt during the contemporary issue lessons, where they get to examine a pertinent social issue from the local and global perspective. With this, students think and discuss about the needs and challenges of different groups of people in the community. They brainstorm for ideas with the intention to help them and to make an impact, learning to think from the perspective of others.

Green triangle labeled Ready, Render, Reflect with a central circle showing Active Learning in VIA and red cycle arrows.

Here are some examples of how our students in their CCA-form class structure planned and executed their VIA project in 2023!

Two presenters in blue shirts give an anti-scam talk to elderly attendees seated in green chairs before a projected screen.

NPCC Upper Sec: Collaboration with Fei Yue Senior Activity Centre to spread anti-scam awareness to the elderly

Two scenes of school children in uniforms: one group using laptops with teachers, another viewing a nature display board outdoors.

NPCC Lower Sec: Collaboration with De La Salle School to promote positive cyber habits through games

Six photos show groups of seniors doing ice-breaker games in a library and learning dance moves indoors.

Dance: Took part in the Intergenerational Learning Programme by Council for the Third Age to teach the elderly how to dance