Community Outreach
Part of the St. Paul's mission is to actively strive to connect our school community to the broader world by providing service opportunities.
Fall Food Drive for the St. Paul's food pantry: This drive is the largest of the year, where we typically collect around 10,000 items over a ten day period!
Monthly "Feed the Need" Fridays: Students bring pantry contributions to chapel, based on current food pantry needs.
Pocket Park: In the spring of 2010, St. Paul's School established a neighborhood park through Front Porch Alliance. An empty lot was provided which then needed to be prepped to make a safe environment for children. Once the extensive clean-up was accomplished, a beautiful swingset was built on-site along with landscaping. The school intends to make one or two visits per year to assist with the maintenance of the park.
President's Volunteer Service Award: Every student Kindergarten - 8th grade is eligible to enroll in this program. Those students who offer 50 hours or more of community service during a twelve month period will receive a pin and cerficate recognizing their achievement. Since our school's involvement in this program, we have been designated a School of Service having at least 5% of our student body achieving the 50 hour mark. Click to download the enrollment forms and service coupons. When completed, these may be given to Chaplain Nolan.
Service Club: This is a K-8th grade offering for students and their parents, meeting approxmately seven times per year on the last Tuesday of the month from 3:30-5:30 pm. Activities range from on-campus service projects (assisting the food pantry or helping teachers in classrooms) or off-site activities such as Harvesters, Grand Avenue Temple's homeless program or gardening at a local park or agency.
Spring Dodgeball Tournament: Every spring middle school students donate money to play on a team or watch the Dodgeball Tournament. The winning student team plays the faculty. Last year this event raised around $300 for our sister school in Haiti.
Spring school-wide Haiti drive. This is to support the church sponsored school in Ravine a'Lanse, Haiti which currently serves approximately 280 students. ECC students bring offerings to their divisional chapel, often consisting of pennies, nickels and dimes. The remainder of the school participates in our spring drive by hosting lemonade stands, bake sales, doing chores for change or donating the proceeds from raking a neighbor's yard or an evening of babysitting. During the 2010-2011 school year, we raised $11,700 which will fully fund the hot lunch program at the school.
Student Council year-round activities: The Student Council sells drinks on Friday, sells snacks in Middle School and participates in the box top program. These events benefit our school, community organizations and our sister school in Haiti.