A Day of Service in the Upper School

Monday in the Upper School, all was quiet in Emery as advising groups took to the town to take part in an array of community service projects.  Some groups volunteered their time to give back to Waynflete while others visited local organizations to lend a hand.  Home-base received multiple reports of hard-working groups with positive attitudes, and of Waynflete students embodying the spirit of service throughout the Portland area.

Peer into Waynflete’s spring community service day via our photo gallery.  Here is a list of the projects students tackled:

• cleaning the Emery kitchen
• prepping for Waynflete’s Spring Fling
• assisting teachers in their classrooms at the Lower School
• gardening at Reiche Elementary School with kindergarten and first grade students
• meal prepping at Preble Street Soup Kitchen
• Maine Island Trail Association site clean-ups on Chebeague Island and in West Bath
• gardening at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House
• painting fences for the horse paddocks at the Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals (MSSPA)
• organizing books for the Waynflete Library
• clean-up work at Bug Light for the Rotary Club of South Portland
• doing yard work at St. Luke’s Church
• clean-up at Fort Williams Park, home of the Portland Head Light
• farm and campground maintenance at Wolfe’s Neck Farm
• making a drainage ditch, weeding, moving very heavy steel beams, moving gravel, and raking at the Fore River Fields
• helping out at STRIVE
• volunteering at SailMaine
• a day of service at LaDawn Therapeutic Riding Center
• volunteering at Roots and Fruits
• helping out for the morning at the Children’s Museum and Theater of Maine
• beach clean up at Crescent Beach State Park