Keyword: «socially useful work»

The article describes the modern approach to the formation of social activity of adolescents in secondary school. Initially considered a domestic approach to understanding the social activity of students, such activity was formed in the Soviet era through community service. At the present stage of the formation of social activity more organized system, introduced in educational process of the school in the form of the creation of a public organization, which is to deal with holding fundraisers, creating social projects, systematic assistance to the needy.