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SERVICE LEARNING PROGRAM
Each and every day in every year, students and staff at Seton Catholic School are living their faith through service to others. Our school-wide service learning program is an approach that we are working to build respect and
empathy for others. As teachers help students to re ect on their service, they tie in Christian virtues and emphasize that we respond to the needs of others as Jesus did. Through multiple annual service projects, students help each other, their neighbors, and people thousands of miles away. We continue these efforts as part of our mission as a school and as a church.
School-Wide Projects
During the 2016-2017 school year, students and teachers collected:
• Non-perishables for the Student Hunger Drive
• Funds for Make A Wish Foundation
• Funds for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital Funds for Water
for South Sudan organization
• Funds for Spoon Foundation
• Funds for American Heart Association through Jump
Rope for Heart Program
• Funds for needy Seton families at Christmas
• Funds for Frutiger family after house re
• Non-perishables for the Catholic Order of Foresters
Food Drive
SERVICE PROJECTS BY GRADE
In preparation for Con rmation, eighth-grade students provided more than 2,500 individual service hours to groups and individuals in our community.
8th – Coordinated with Moline Parks & Recreation to rake leaves at Prospect Park; made Christmas ornaments and cards for Hope Creek residents; wrote letters to students at a Catholic school in Haiti and sent these letters via members of Friends of Haiti Mission Trip
7th – Assembled prayer blankets and shawls; students prayed and offered blessings during the assembly process for the recipients of blankets that were given to the community members; collected and donated pet supplies for the Milan Animal Shelter; designed cards for veterans on Honor Flight; caroled at Heartland Health Care Center
6th – Provided items for elderly gift bags for Christ the King homebound and nursing home residents; created decorations for Amber Ridge Assisted Living Center and visited and played bingo with residents; provided lunch for Habitat for Humanity workers
5th – Designed Christmas cards for Sacred Heart shut-in residents and its parishioners at Heartland; made cat “hide boxes” for cats at the Quad City Animal Welfare Center; created fall tree centerpieces for Mr. Thanksgiving’s Annual Thanksgiving dinner; created Easter baskets for Sacred Heart shut-in residents
4th – Did chores to raise funds to provide food for the hungry through Kids Against Hunger program; packaged bags of food for 6,000 meals through Kids Against Hunger program; made cards for residents and caroled at Hope Creek Care Center; collected candy for military through Treat for Troops program; created cards for military and veterans
3rd – Packed snack boxes for local food bank as part of AgXperience; collected gently used books and made bookmarks for Children’s Book Room at YouthHope Center; created cards and donated items to ll Chemotherapy Care Packages; collected used crayons for the Crayon Initiative that remanufactures them for Children’s Hospitals
2nd – Collected toiletry items for the Humility of Mary Homeless Shelter; had a cookie sale to raise funds for a family with an ill child
1st – Made and sold puppy chow to raise funds for the Quad City Animal Welfare Center; made cat toys and cards for those who adopt at the Quad City Animal Welfare Center; created Easter cards for Heartland Health Care Center and Hope Creek residents
K – Collected small toiletries, socks, gloves, hats and made cards for the homeless at Humility of Mary Shelter; sang songs for Sacred Heart Retirees
PreK – Learned of special prayer intentions and prayed every day for a certain family or person
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