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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Service Organizations
- Age Well Senior Services
- Atria Senior Living
- Boys & Girls Club of Capistrano Valley
- Breakthrough SJC
- Capistrano Senior Living Center
- Casa de Amma
- Children’s Hospital of Orange County
- City of SJC, DP and SC Creeks and Beaches
- DoggieBonez
- Drains to Ocean
- The Ecology Center
- Emeritus Senior Living of SJC
- Episcopal Relief and Development
- Family Assistance Ministries
- The Friendship Shelter
- Human Options
- The Infant Pantry
- J.F. Shea Therapeutic Riding Center
- Laura’s House Distribution Center and Thrift Stores
- The Nature Reserve at Rancho Mission Viejo
- NEGU
- The Ocean Institute
- Operation Help a Hero
- Orange County Head Start
- Pacific Marine Mammal Center
- Padres Unidos
- Paws in Hands
- Project Linus
- Second Harvest Food Bank
- Silverado Memory Care Unit
- Special Camp
- Surfrider Foundation
- St. Margaret's Episcopal Church
- Welcome INN
Service Learning News
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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 -
Upper School Advisories Begin Year of Meaningful Service-Learning Partnerships
Throughout the school year, Upper School students are building relationships through service, learning more about the needs of the local community and helping others during the school day.Read More -
Heritage Cookbook Project Brings Grade 6 Community Together to Celebrate Food, Family and Culture
The heritage cookbook project is an annual interdisciplinary unit exploring family history and cultural traditions centered around food.Read More -
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
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