IN THE COMMUNITY

COME SEE THE DIFFERENCE

LEADING BY EXAMPLE

FOR OUR community

Beginning in kindergarten, Woodlawn students advocate for a specific local or global cause that is interwoven throughout their year-long course of study. Rather than fulfilling a required number of hours, our students spend the year understanding and gaining the perspective of their service partner. 

IN THE COMMUNITY

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Our Service partnerships for the 2022-23 academic year.

KINDERGARTEN

BRIGHT BLESSINGS

Woodlawn Kindergarten students visit Bright Blessings Lake Norman Chapter to learn how donations are collected and to pack kits for homeless children in the community. Kinders also help to collect items to fill care kits such as gift cards to restaurants, hygiene kits, and more.

FIRST GRADE

PIEDMONT ANIMAL RESCUE

Piedmont Animal Rescue educates and encourages the rehabilitation of lost and abandoned animals including cats and dogs of all breeds! PAR representatives bring in animals to show students and teach them about what the animal rescue does. Our first and sixth-grade animal advocates partner to work together to raise money for PAR through bake sales and collecting items during our service drives.

SECOND GRADE

MOORESVILLE LIBRARY

Our second grade tudents assist in shelving and bundling books, cleaning, reading to preschool children, preparing art samples and crafts for library activities and events, filling bags with information flyers for the schools and community, making and delivering Veteran’s Day cards for the Veterans at Richard’s Cafe.

THIRD GRADE

MOORESVILLE AREA CHRISTIAN MISSION

The Mooresville Area Christian Mission, Inc. is a crisis center for individuals and families to seek assistance with financial hardships, food insecurities, and individual betterment.

Students meet at the mission monthly to help organize food, clothes, and other pantry items. They also have an opportunity to walk with patrons through the food pantry to help them gather their items.

FOURTH GRADE

LA ESCUELITA

LA Escuelita, or “little school,” is a bilingual, science-based preschool. We play an important role in closing the achievement gap for Spanish-speaking children in the Lake Norman area. Students create books and bring material donations to students at La Escuelita through this service partnership.

FIFTH GRADE

CONTINUING THE MISSION

Continuing the Mission provides fully trained assistance dogs at no cost to the Veteran and our training program is both unique and purposeful. Students learn about service dogs and help them socialize through “play dates” with the students.

SIXTH GRADE

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Piedmont Animal Rescue educates and encourages the rehabilitation of lost and abandoned animals including cats and dogs of all breeds! PAR representatives bring in animals to show students and teach them about what the animal rescue does. Our first and sixth-grade animal advocates partner to work together to raise money for PAR through bake sales and collecting items during our service drives.

SEVENTH GRADE

Woodlawn School Sustainability

Becoming Conscious Consumers. Woodlawn students help improve sustainable practices around campus. They help organize & maintain sustainable lunch practices through a lunch cart. They also help upcycle and/or repair items around campus.

EIGHTH GRADE

Accordius Health formerly the Brian Center

Health and Retirement Center Eight-grade students visit Accordius Health each month to present a program and visit with the residents. At the beginning of the school year, the students participate in empathy training to prepare for their experiences with the elderly. During their first visit in September, the students meet a buddy and they continue cultivating this friendship throughout the year. Throughout the year the class makes handmade gifts for the residents such as wheelchair bags, fleece blankets, and memory cards, perform a holiday talent show that encourages the residents to join in, and present singing, dancing, and drama performances. In the spring the class joins the residents in a “senior prom/picnic” and the year ends with a luau.

UPPER SCHOOL

FeedNC

Upper school students provide meals, fellowship, and encouragement to those in need.

Students prepare, serve, and bus food, along with distributing donations.

Refugee Support Services

Organize donations, practice English with recent immigrants, hand out food to people in need.

RED CROSS

Woodlawn Upper School students help to organize and run a public blood drive.

ADA JENKINS

Our Upper School students work with Ada Jenkins to help with any work that needs to be tackled from cleaning, planting, reorganizing donations, helping in the food pantry Loaves and Fishes, setting up for parties, helping in the computer lab, and more.

LA ESCUELITA

Work with students and create lesson plans. Students prepare activities and lead lessons, run centers and create manipulatives for teachers.

COMMUNICATION + COOPERATION

PARENT CONNECTION

As a support organization, the purpose of Parent Connection is to facilitate communication and cooperation between parents and school administrators. Working together provides a fun, manageable, and meaningful way to stay connected throughout the Woodlawn community.

OUR COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE
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OUR FUTURE

WOODLAWN GIVING

A vibrant culture of philanthropy helps to sustain Woodlawn School’s innovative educational model and shapes the lives of lifelong learners.

OUR COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE

IMAGINE + DISCOVER + EXPLORE

STEAMFEST

STEAMfest Live is the largest annual science and arts festival in the region. In April 2022, over 800 guests explored over 60 hands-on activity booths created by local colleges, libraries, museums, schools, clubs and businesses. 
IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES
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