Middle School Community Service - Hillcrest School, Oakland CA

Middle School Community Service Details

Goals & Expectations: Every Middle School student will have the opportunity to connect and feel ownership of their school through their service to the younger students, and the Hillcrest community as a whole, by completing a minimum of 4 hours of service per marking period, or 12 hours per semester.

Responsibility: Each student is responsible for maintaining a log of their service with adult signatures verifying the hours of service. Students must present a signed log at the end of each marking period.

Parent Support: Volunteer grade level coordinators help students find service activities that fit their schedule and that they find interesting and fulfilling, as well as keep a record of class service hours.
6th Grade: Darcy Brown-Martin 7th Grade: Donna Summerville< 8th Grade: Monica Marcone

School Service Activities: Listed in the Table of Community Service Activities below are a few examples of possible service activities at Hillcrest. Activities are focused in three areas:

Helping Younger Students (e.g. tutoring, lunch aides, PTA babysitters)
Making the School a Better Place For All (e.g. safety patrol, green team, recycling mentors)
Raising Money for the Middle School (e.g. Pizza Friday, Pumpkin Patch).

Additional activities are posted on the Community Service bulletin board in the main hallway and communicated by the grade level coordinators. Students with additional ideas for service activities should make a proposal to their grade level coordinator.

Do you have a question? See the FAQ page.

More Community Service Details (pdf)
Community Service Opportunities (pdf)

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Table of Community Service Activities

Activity	Comments
First Grade Tutors	Assigned to read with a 1st grade student for 30 minutes a day on Tuesdays and Thursdays after school under the supervision of Ms. Inclan and Mr. Shogren.
Tutors	Tutor a 2nd–4th grade student after school for 30-60 minutes on topics assigned by the student’s teacher, in that teacher’s classroom.
Teacher Assistant	Assist teachers with projects, usually before or after school. See Bulletin Board.
Pizza Friday/ Pumpkin Patch	Assist with middle school fundraisers to raise money to defray the cost of the annual middle school overnight trip. Sign up on Bulletin Board.
Green Ambassadors	Help younger students organize lunch waste into food waste, recycling, and trash so that they will deposit waste into appropriate bins. 12:10 – 12:30 every day at lunch.
Office Assistant	8:00–8:30 a.m. — Answer phones, take messages and log student absences.
Library	Help monitor the library, check out books, and shelve books before school, after school and/or during lunch recess.
PTA Babysitting	6:00–7:00 p.m. — Baby sit for PTA Board Members/PTA Meetings once a month. Sign up on Community Service Bulletin Board.
Safety Patrol	Assist 4th and 5th grade safety patrol members with car door opening before school. Safety Patrol training class required.
School Garden Projects	Assist with the school gardening projects to beautify our school grounds, as directed by the Hillcrest Gardening Committee.
Activities Outside of Hillcrest	Other activities must have prior approval from your grade level Community Service Coordinator.