Community Service Award

Gwin Elementary School 2015 – 2016

Community Service is…

Volunteering your time to help others in need.

Gwin Elementary School Community Service Award

Students at Gwin Elementary can receive a Community Service Award by completing

at least two hours of community service by May 6, 2016.

We hope you will go above and beyond by completing more than 2 hours of

community service!

3 Rules of

Community Service

Rule #1

You can’t get paid

• Community service has to be done for free.

• If money is collected for community service then100% of the money has to be donated to charity.

Rule #2You can’t do it for your family

• Helping mom, dad, brothers, sisters, grandma, grandpa, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. does not count.

• You can always do community service with your family!

Rule #3You can’t do it during school

hours

• If you do community service during the week, it has to be done before school starts or when school is over.

• Community service can be done on the weekends.

Be safe!!!When doing community service,

you should always be supervised by an adult.

NEVER do community service alone.

Hanson Lister, Garrett Brasher and Noah Lister picked up trash at the Moss Rock Preserve.

Nick Berg and his older brothers, Mason and Jake sorted through donated food at the

Community Food Bank of Central Alabama this summer.

On Saturday, October 4th, Abby & Kyle Lemp and Kiley & Briggs Marett held a Lemonade Stand for Children's Hospital of AL Pediatric Oncology. We posted in FB to our homeowners assoc. of Lake Crest and to our friends. The kids baked cookies and made lemonade as well as made a poster. In total, they each spent 3 hours. The kids sold cups of lemonade for $1.00 and 2 cookies for $.50. In total, the kids raised $98.00 from the 2 hour sale. They had a great time and were happy to share that the sale was for charity after waving at cars and driving by😊.

Emma Voytanovsky, Hope Carden, Gianna Davito and Kennady Baxter

participated in the "Backpack Program".  The purpose of the project was to make backpacks for children that had to be quickly removed from

their home and placed in a foster home.  The backpack was to be filled with things that a child might need if they went to a new home with only the clothes on their back.  Each girl

picked out a backpack, then we shopped for PJs, underwear, an outfit,

toiletries, a snack, and a couple of things to bring the child comfort

(stuffed animal, coloring book, etc.).  The backpacks were delivered to the

Alabama Baptist Children's Home.

Vincent Aspito helping unload the U-Haul truck for Simmons Middle School's musical

set 'Hairspray Jr.'.

Phoenix Sides made bird feeders

for the Alabama Wildlife

Centeron their

Family Service Day on November 22,

2014.

Community Service Log

The Gwin Elementary Community Service Log is available on Gwin’s webpage.

Go to Guidance/CounselingClick on forms.

http://gwinelem.al.hce.schoolinsites.com/

We want your pictures!!!

If you participate in community service, please send pictures of

your community service in action to Mrs. Gault.

Pictures can be emailed to her or you can bring the pictures to her. Also include a

brief description of your community service.

Your pictures will go on the Community Service Bulletin Board by the science lab!

Some charities to consider:

• The American Cancer Society• The Humane Society• Children’s Hospital or any hospital• Shelters for women, men and

children• International charities• ALS – “Lou Gehrig’s Disease”• Susan G. Komen for the Cure

“We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for

others, then in time of need, someone will be there for

you.”

- Jeff Warner