Community Service

Whitfield School encourages students to pursue volunteer opportunities to serve their school, neighborhood and local communities, and to instill a life-long commitment to community service. Each grade level has two community service parent liaisons who coordinate and implement community service activities for the grade level. In addition, students may pursue individual service opportunities to be completed during non-school hours. Students should visit the Community Relations Office in Room 118 to record their volunteer hours. Students who demonstrate an outstanding commitment to serving their community will be recognized as follows:

100+ hours per year - Whitfield School Community Service Pin, awarded at the annual awards assembly.
100+ hours per year, grades 6, 7 and 8 (each year) - name on lower school community service plaque.
100+ hours per year, grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 (each year) - name on upper school community service plaque

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Community Service News

WHITFIELD HOSTS 2009 BIKE BUILD

Variety the Children's Charity of St. Louis held its 2009 Bike Build at Whitfield on Saturday, November 14, 2009.

MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS MAKING A DIFFERENCE

70 Whitfield middle school students participated in a community service activity after school on Wednesday, November 11th.

WHITFIELD'S GREAT COSTUME EXCHANGE

Whitfield students collected 146 gently-used Halloween costumes to donate to the After School and Daycare Programs at Kingdom House, an organization that provides services to meet community needs in St. Louis including child care, youth services and employment and training services.

COMMUNITY SERVICE COLLECTIONS ANNOUNCED

In an effort to provide more voluntary community service opportunities for Whitfield students and families, the School is pleased to announce monthly week-long charitable collection drives. The week-long collections are a vision of Parents' Council Community Service co-chair Betsey Beckmann.

STUDENTS SHARE THEIR HEARTS WITH SOLDIERS IN IRAQ

Whitfield students of all ages, along with several Whitfield parents, spent a Saturday in January taking over Celebrity Kitchens in Olivette. Led by a professional chef, the students and parents made peanut brittle, which was then shipped to American troops in Iraq for their enjoyment on Valentine's Day.

STUDENTS INVOLVED IN DARE TEACH SIXTH GRADERS TO SAY NO

On Wednesday, January 30, Whitfield juniors Hadley Graham, Jason Ott and Sydne Stacker spoke to the sixth grade class at Chesterfield Day School as part of the D.A.R.E. drug education program