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 our intermediate grades continue carrying out service at home and also begin to complete service projects at school.  As students serve their peers and their school community, they see first hand the impact of their service efforts.  These service tasks include weekly reading buddies weekly (older students reading to younger students), mass buddies, trash/weed clean up, maintaining gardens/flowers around campus, peer mediators, church clean up after mass and stocking of St. Vincent de Paul pantry.  

Service Throughout the Community

Our students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade also participate in school-wide service projects that have an impact on our local community and around the world.  Last year projects included St. Martin’s Merry Bag Project for the homeless,  Kids Against Hunger and Peace Pals.  Students in grades sixth through eighth complete one individual community service project at an organization outside of school.  Projects include volunteering at Watermelon Mountain Ranch, Roadrunner Food Bank and St. Martin’s Hospitality Center.    

Make a Difference Day at Holy Ghost Catholic School