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CCES Service Day
Aside from all of the regular festivities Homecoming Week brings— from Tacky Prom, Dodgeball, Powder Puff Game, Pep Rally, to the Presentation of Homecoming Court— Homecoming is underpinned by a theme of service, and one of the week’s activities that students find the most significant and satisfying is Upper School Service Day.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
During Upper School Service Day, 417 students in grades 9-12 are deployed to areas all over Greenville County after just a half-day of regular classes, in order to lend a hand. This year, students volunteered their time at eighteen locations in the Upstate; Harvest Hope Upstate, Safe Harbor, Greenville County Animal Care, Shepherd's Care Assisted Living, Thrive Upstate, Serenity Place, St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School, Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County, Monroe House, Autumn Leaves of Greenville, Brookdale Cleveland Park, Thomas E. Kerns Elementary School, Greenville Humane Society, Project Host, Waterstone on Augusta, The Greenville Free Medical Clinic, Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Carolinas, and CCEP Greenville.
Overall, it was a day of meaningful service performed and enjoyed by all. At CCES, students start serving their community in the earliest grades and as a result, the lifelong practice of “giving back” becomes part of their moral development. Rather than seeing service a as burden, they jump with excitement at the thought of helping others.
In total, during CCES Service Day students volunteered almost 1,000 hours in one afternoon! Congratulations to all who participated!
Click here to view photos from the Homecoming Pep Rally.
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Students serve at Harvest Hope food bank
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Students serve with the elderly at Shepherd's Care
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Fourth Grade students sit with their Primer buddies at the Pep Rally
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Homecoming Court presentation!
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