Service Learning Program

Service at Home

Our primary students learn the importance of service by serving at home.  Students work alongside their families to carry out tasks that help them to understand the impact of serving. These serving tasks include helping with laundry, making their bed, setting the dinner table, putting away groceries, pulling weeds, and additional tasks around the home.  

Service at School

Students in grades PreK-8th participate in school service projects. As students serve their peers and their school community, they see firsthand the impact of their service efforts. These service tasks include Mass buddies, trash/weed clean up, and church clean up after Mass.  

Service Throughout the Community

Community service is an important part of the service learning program that all students participate in throughout the year. We conduct schoolwide service projects that have an impact on our local community and around the world. Projects include the Merry Bags Project at HopeWorks and Kids Against Hunger. In addition, classes conduct individual projects such as collecting items for the Humane Society. 

For more than 15 years, Holy Ghost Catholic School has been partnering in service with the City of Albuquerque Open Space Department. Four times a year, students visit Open Space lands to plant trees, create and maintain trails, and complete other land conservation tasks.

Students in 6th through 8th grades complete one individual community service project at an organization outside of school. Projects include volunteering at Watermelon Mountain Ranch, Roadrunner Food Bank, The Storehouse, and HopeWorks.