Hale School’s Student Service Learning program offers students from year 8 through to year 12 the opportunity to be involved in voluntary work in the local community as well as overseas.

Work with the local community may involve visits to children's homes in the metropolitan area which can cater for children between 4 and 18 who have a range of physical and intellectual disabilities.  Our students are involved in a variety of activities with the children including bike riding, drama, art & craft, assisting with the visually and hearing impaired students and entertaining the severely disabled children by talking to them.  Older students visit the residents of metropolitan Homes for the Aged.  Typical activities would include reading poetry and prose, playing scrabble and chess and chatting with the elderly residents.

The boarding community is involved twice a month with the Red Cross Soup Patrol which provides a small meal to the homeless people of Perth.  Year 12 students have the opportunity to be involved in a Service Learning overseas trip such as the trips undertaken in the recent past to orphanages in Vietnam.  Participation in the annual Hale Sony Foundation Holiday for Kids is also a Service Learning experience available only to Year 12 students.  This camp provides 24 senior boys with the opportunity to care for children with intellectual and physical disabilities at a four day residential camp at Hale school.

All these programmes are exciting, challenging and very rewarding for those students fortunate enough to participate in them.