Student Life
Service Learning
A pillar of our school’s mission is to educate students for lives of service. Our community believes that an essential outcome of St. Margaret’s education is that students and graduates feel the compassion, responsibility and calling to serve others and be active and contributing citizens within their communities and the world.
Our Episcopal identity guides our service learning program that aims to create understanding of community issues and challenges, engender empathy for others, nurture deeper connections and engagement, build cultural competency and life skills. Service learning and begins with developmentally-appropriate activities in the Early School and builds through the Upper School years.
Our Episcopal identity guides our service learning program that aims to create understanding of community issues and challenges, engender empathy for others, nurture deeper connections and engagement, build cultural competency and life skills. Service learning and begins with developmentally-appropriate activities in the Early School and builds through the Upper School years.
Service learning at St. Margaret's is experiential and requires students to understand the authentic needs of the community they are serving. Often service learning is tied to the content of our academic curriculum, making the service even more relevant and deepening the learning experience in a real setting.
We emphasize and model the importance of service by purposefully taking time in the school day within all divisions and as an all-school community for service learning projects, rather than require students to count service hours accumulated after school or on weekends. St. Margaret’s has formed long-term partnerships with local non-profit organizations and leverages these sustained relationships to further their missions within the communities they serve, and to provide powerful learning experiences for our students. Partner organizations include Family Assistance Ministries, The Ecology Center, Operation Help A Hero and the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, Padres Unidos, Second Harvest Food Bank, The Infant Pantry and Welcome INN.
The lessons of these kinds of hands-on service experiences leave students with a new understanding of societal issues and inequities; underlining, systemic causes; and deep personal connections to the rewards of investing in and giving back to the community.
We emphasize and model the importance of service by purposefully taking time in the school day within all divisions and as an all-school community for service learning projects, rather than require students to count service hours accumulated after school or on weekends. St. Margaret’s has formed long-term partnerships with local non-profit organizations and leverages these sustained relationships to further their missions within the communities they serve, and to provide powerful learning experiences for our students. Partner organizations include Family Assistance Ministries, The Ecology Center, Operation Help A Hero and the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, Padres Unidos, Second Harvest Food Bank, The Infant Pantry and Welcome INN.
The lessons of these kinds of hands-on service experiences leave students with a new understanding of societal issues and inequities; underlining, systemic causes; and deep personal connections to the rewards of investing in and giving back to the community.
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Partner Organizations
- Arts for Kids OC
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Capistrano Valley
- Breakthrough Collaborative
- Breakthrough SJC
- Capistrano Senior Living Center
- Capistrano Unified School District
- Casa de Amma
- Cinderella's Closet OC
- Community Health Enrichment Collaborative
- Drains to Ocean
- Dreams for Schools
- Episcopal Relief and Development
- Family Assistance Ministries
- Great Opportunities of Orange County
- Helping Our Heroes Foundation
- Illumination Foundation
- J.F. Shea Therapeutic Riding Center
- Laura’s House
- NEGU (The Jessie Rees Foundation)
- OC Parks
- Operation Help a Hero
- Orange County Head Start
- Orange County Rescue Mission
- Pacific Marine Mammal Center
- Padres Unidos
- Pet Project Foundation
- Second Harvest Food Bank
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County
- Someone Cares Soup Kitchen
- Special Camp
- St. Margaret's Episcopal Church
- Surfrider Foundation
- The Ecology Center
- The Friendship Shelter
- The Nature Reserve at Rancho Mission Viejo
- The Ocean Institute
- Thinque Prep
- Unidos South OC
- Welcome INN
- Wellness & Prevention Center Orange County
- Words of Comfort, Hope and Promise
- ZeroWaste.Org
Service Learning News
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Grade 3 Students Lead Tartan Participation in FAM Hunger Walk
A Tartan delegation of students, professional community members and parents participated in the annual fundraiser in San Clemente.Read More -
Grade 4 Students Serve Community at 9th Annual ‘Santa’s Scottie Village’ Learning Project
St. Margaret’s Fountain Courtyard turned into a shopping extravaganza with books, toys, clothes, pajamas and holiday cheer, the culmination of a service-learning project.Read More -
St. Margaret's Partners With Special Camp for Educational Touchpoints as Part of All-School Service Learning Project
This year’s partnership is with Special Camp, an organization hosted by St. Margaret’s which brings youth with disabilities together with counselors.Read More -
St. Margaret’s Partners With OC Head Start for Meaningful All-School Service Learning Project
The annual springtime activity brings the school community together around a shared purpose in service to the local community.Read More -
Grade 4 Students Serve Community at 8th annual ‘Santa’s Scottie Village’ Learning Project
Santa’s Scottie Village is a cherished community outreach led by St. Margaret’s Lower School with collaboration from St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church and Padres Unidos.Read More
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