Community Service
Lending a Helping Hand
Our Philosophy: Mizzentop Day School's Community Service program is an essential part of the school's curriculum. This program instills a sense of civic-mindedness in our students, while acquainting them with the needs of their community and the larger issues facing society. An important part of a well-rounded life is teaching students to care about the world around them.
Our Program: Mizzentop students are caring human beings who understand that their talents and energy can make a difference in the world. Through a wide variety of good works, students learn the value of community service. By working together, students find their efforts can make a difference in their local community and the world around them.
Community Service Projects have included:
- Reading Buddies
- Clean Up Day
- Thoroughbred Race Horse Foundation
- Dutchess County Community Outreach Center
- Grace Smith House
- UNICEF
- Ryan McElroy Cancer Foundation [View: Pawling News Chronicle Article]
- Lovely Hills Nursing Home
- Environment: F.R.O.G.S. (Friends of the Great Swamp)
- Guiding Eyes for the Blind
- Pawling Resource Center
- The Anderson School
- Lance Armstrong Foundation, "Run for Life"
- Mitten and Scarf Tree
- Dutchess County A.S.P.C.A.
- Phone Cards for Our Troops
- Tsunami Relief Efforts
- Hurricanes Katrina & Rita Relief
Students must also contribute their time to the school by taking on Table Captain duties at lunch, cleaning up the playground, picking up trash in the courtyard, shelving books in the library, etc.
Mrs. Kellogg's 8th Grade Advisory Group carved pumpkins and donated them to the residents of the King's Apartments.
Mrs. Melchionda's 3rd Grade
Supports the Lance Armstrong
Foundation!
