Service Learning News June 2018

On May 16, the Upper Campus community wore dress-down attire and donated to the RCS Breakfast Bag Food Drive. This collection resulted in 354 pounds of boxed milk, Cheerios, and cereal bars, which have already been given out to hungry children and elderly through Feeding Westchester (formerly Food Bank for Westchester).

 

Our eighth grade visited Feeding Westchester on May 21 to deliver the Breakfast Bag Food Drive collection. While there, the students packed 580 bags of food for hungry school children to address their issues of weekend hunger. Our enthusiastic volunteers also assembled nearly 150 Breakfast Bags with the food that our RCS community so generously donated. This special visit rounded out the eighth grade focus this year on the issue of hunger.

 

On May 24, one final group of seventh and eighth grade volunteers spent their evening at Blythedale Children's Hospital. This group was the largest yet, with enthusiasm for this volunteer opportunity growing as word spread amongst the students. As on prior visits, the evening was filled with joy and compassion as our RCS students played games with the young patients. This volunteer opportunity continues to prove to be one of the most profoundly impactful of all that we offer to our Upper Campus students – our students having direct contact with the recipient of their kindness and generosity of spirit, and then receiving the same in return.

  

On June 6, our seventh grade presented A-HOME Property Manager, Gerry Granelli, with the 18 completed wooden planters created under the guidance of Mr. Cameron in the Innovation Center. Mr. Granelli thanked our students for their impressive and hard work and told them that all of what they had done this year for A-HOME has had an extremely positive impact on their residents.