Flintridge Prep’s Semi-Annual Middle School Community Service Day

One way Flintridge Prep nurtures a compassionate community is by introducing its students to community service beginning in middle school with the semi-annual Middle School Community Service Day.

At service day, the 7th grade students work on projects around campus including some tried-and-true staples like gardening with Ms. Basilio, a clean-up hike in La Cañada, and supply kit creation for Families Forward, an organization that provides free education and social services to low-income families with children from birth to five years old.

This year they made 60 baby kits, 84 hygiene kits, 167 school supply kits, and 243 snack kits! The students also flexed their creativity, creating Halloween costumes to donate to Families Forward as well as writing and translating children’s books into Chichewa to send to children in Malawi.

Meanwhile, 8th grade students volunteered at local nonprofits, stocked the food pantry at Friends In Deed, read to and played games with seniors with Alzheimer’s at Community Assistance Program for Seniors (CAPS), helped run a dance class for people with Parkinson’s at Lineage Performing Arts Center and more.

Abrielle Kong ’28 volunteered with Families Forward assisting teachers in the classroom. After her experience she wants to focus her Community Impact Project on early childhood education, consistent with the goal of the service day program as an introduction to service opportunities.

Flintridge Preparatory School, 4543 Crown Ave., La Cañada Flintridge, (818) 790-1178 or visit www.flintridgeprep.org.