Each IC 8th grader is required to complete at least 10 hours of community service and 4 hours of school service. As a class, students complete several class projects, including cards for residents of nursing homes on three occasions, and making rosary bead cases for the first graders. Most students well-exceed the required time (60+ hours) and continue their community service throughout the year.
Community Service
In School activities include:
- North Pole Express
- Halloween Party – set up, clean up, and supervise games
- Help teachers after school
- Set up for socials
- Tutor younger student
- Help at Journey afterschool programs
- Altar Server training
Out of School Community Service Projects have included:
- Helping with the Special Olympics
- Painting and yard work for Merrimac Heights Academy
- Assisting with the Saturday Morning Basketball Program
- Serving meals at Salvation Army
- Being a bell ringer for Salvation Army
- Volunteering at the MSPCA
- Teaching Boy Scouts how to raise, lower, and fold the flag
- Fundraising for Walks such as St. Vincent dePaul, Jeanne Geiger, Pancreatic Cancer
- Raising money through Golf Tournaments for Kawasaki’s disease
- Visiting nursing homes
- Vacation Bible School Holy Redeemer Church
- Making blankets for Towers of Gifts for Newborns in need
- Volunteering at Emmaus House
- Playing music for IC Liturgy