Community Service Logs are due April 1, 2011.
At the end of each year students are recognized for their hours of volunteer work. While the school does not encourage a student to work for an award, but to volunteer from compassion and interest in the community, a goal is always helpful. The following hours are needed for recognition:
| Senior High and Ninth Grade |
Junior High (7-8) |
Certificate |
| 30-59 hours |
20-29 hours |
Bronze Award |
| 60-99 hours |
30-49 hours |
Silver Award |
| 100-199 hours |
50-99 hours |
Gold Award |
| 200 + hours |
100 + hours |
Platinum Award |
A student should document his/her work by someone who has supervised the volunteer work. A parent should not sign the forms.If a student has lost his/her form and documentation please reconfigure the hours on another form and see Mrs. Duncan to verify the new form. Forms may be turned in to the Junior High Office, the Senior High Office, or outside Community Service.
Parents,
Anne Duncan, Community
Service Coordinator
aduncan@jacksonprep.
skytel.com
601-939-8612 ext. 284
Office Location: in
the Senior High Building in the short hall by the Teachers’
Lounge
Form
Service Opportunities
Community
Partners
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Please note that there is a new log to help your student record and track his/her community service hours. This log replaces the old form; there is no need to fill out the old form. Click here for the new form. This log is being test-driven this year as a way to conserve paper and be more accurate, chronological, and efficient in community service record keeping. Students will record over a several month stretch of time their various times of volunteering on one log and one log only. They will then turn in a completed log at the hours deadline. The three deadlines for this year are located on the form. Only those individuals who are able to testify to the work of the student are eligible to sign the form. They must leave contact information so that the details of the work can be discussed. Therefore no parent signatures will be accepted as certification of work. An official word and a more thorough discussion of work is often needed for the counseling office when scholarship applications and local community service award applications are being processed. So, while these details are cumbersome at the time, the details afford our counselors the added tools to complete a student profile that is accurate in the community service area. This accuracy and detail make your student more competitive and attractive to scholarship and awards committees.
Students will begin a new log after completion of a log deadline. The Director of Community Service reserves the right to certify or deny all volunteer work regarding community service awards at Jackson Prep. Please keep a copy of the forms for your records.
Community Service is defined as “the act of (picture) voluntarily
serving the community by giving one’s time, energy and talents
toward helping individuals, groups or the environment without
expecting anything in return.” It is done for and in the
greater community and is above and beyond what is expected. The
motivation is for others, not for self!
Why does Jackson Prep strongly encourage Community Service?
- Our Mission Statement directs us: “…..The school
believes in developing in its students…. the qualities
of responsible citizenship… At Jackson Prep education
is not an end in itself but a means to the individual’s
fulfillment as a contributing member of the world community.
”
- Our core values charge us :” the spirit of volunteerism
should be cultivated among the students through community service.
- It is part of our history. Students have been encouraged to
and have contributed to our community through service to others
since Prep’s inception in 1969. The first student body
collected “Toys for Tots” under the leadership of
our first SGA. Mrs. Arthur (Ruth) Guyton for whom the new Science
Building is named was the first PAT President. At the opening
faculty meeting in August of 1971, she said: “ …
I wish that Prep may be a school where learning is linked with
service….it is a privileged education that our young people
enjoy here… We must help them to use that privilege responsibly,
to learn in order to prepare themselves for the service of society.”
Today we continue to fulfill that wish by apprising our students
of the vast volunteer opportunities in our community as well
as directing them in service projects.
- It provides individual growth and reward for the volunteer.
Service in the community makes one develop an awareness of the
needs of others as it cultivates a spirit of volunteerism. It
is a good way to gain perspective on life and to learn about
oneself while learning about others. By performing community
service, one can develop responsible citizenship and contribute
to the world community. Certificates recognizing significant
Community Service will be given at the end of each school year
to all Junior High and Senior High students who meet the award
requirements.
From “Real Community Service and What it Means” by Laura
Sorey, Prep Student:
“I am ashamed that it has taken me this long to realize
that there is a difference in community service and truly serving
the community. One is good and the other is better. One is donating
some old clothes and the other is giving up something important
to you that you know can make someone’s day just a little
bit better. One is something we do every once in a while and the
other is something that we need to be doing right now.”
May all of us here at Prep come to this understanding of “real”
service to others!
