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Community Engagement

- Group of students around a table

The Community Engagement Program connects St. Paul’s students with the local community, with an emphasis on youth mentorship, to address critical community needs and to foster and support positive academic, civic, and social/emotional growth for all. Students involved with Community Engagement Programs will:

Develop the capacity for self-reflection;
Monitor and regulate feelings to aid in the handling of situations;
Identify and understand the thoughts and feelings of others; and
Use verbal and nonverbal skills to express oneself and promote positive and effective exchanges with others.

Real-life learning in realtime

The goal of the program is to:

Help students develop and strengthen a sense of identity;
Become integrated in a mentor-type relationship; and
Acquire the necessary skills to become agents of change.

- 4 students volunteering at OUT-Fitters
- Female student with the Junior Pelicans

To put into action the St. Paul’s mission and school prayer, community engagement is a graduation requirement. The program is based on a credit system, and credit requirements are based on the time of matriculation as shown below:

Entering Third Formers – 2 credits
Entering Fourth Formers – 1.5 credits
Entering Fifth Formers – 1 credit

Students will work closely with the community engagement director and their advisers to plan how and when they will participate in community engagement while at SPS.

Programs Available

Traditional Community Engagement

This opportunity is available for both afternoon activity and CE only projects and includes Service Learning Team; FIRST LEGO League; McAuliffe Language Club; Academic Enrichment Program; Random Acts of Kindness; Girls in Engineering, Math and Science; Photo Foundations; Classics Program; Children's Learning Center; Kids' Tales; and Junior Pelicans.
Community Leadership

This opportunity includes Missionary Society Officers, Sokoloff Grant Recipients, Friends Youth Mentor Program, Mish Project Leader, and Spring Service Trip.
Students with Challenging Schedules

This option includes Pelicans Read Together-CE and Independent Projects (requires an application and advanced approval).
Accumulated Services Experiences (ASE)

This opportunity provides the ability to earn a CE credit for every 30 hours of accumulated service in a variety of community service experiences in non-profit organizations added up over time. A half-credit option is also available for 15 hours of accumulated service.

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Sokoloff Grants

The Kiril and Kate Sokoloff Fund was established in 2010 to support the Kiril and Kate Sokoloff Grants for Compassion and Kindness. Students who seek to promote the qualities of compassion and kindness which lie at the heart of the School Prayer are welcome to apply.

Scholarship. Leadership.
Character. Community.