Thank you to the 07-08 TEAM Service..... Great job!
     9th Grade: William Baumgardner, Victoria Bliss, Kyle Fraser, Connor Fraser, Clifton Harlin, Christa Ratcliffe, Courtney Reimer, Shannon Sauerhage, & Nettie Teter
    10th Grade: Hannah Brantley, Claire Davidovich, Clinton Elledge, Colin Ford, Hannah Pohler, Lindsey Stiefel,  & Larson Stimson
    11th Grade: Zara Bowden, Jenny Guzman, Harry Hood, Annalee Hurst, Allison Marrow, Kevin Pohler, & Rachel Rosenstein
    12th Grade: Jordan Bock, Kathryn Gaffin, Samantha Huncharek, Jenny Johnson, Marshall Mays, Shea Roll, Sarah Schriber & David Williams



Saturday, April 26 was National/Global Youth Service Day .  FWCD participated by hosting a carnival for the children at the Assessment Center.  It was a meaningful and fun afternoon for the group of FWCD students & adults and also for the children at the Assessment Center.  Pictures can not be taken of the children, but check out the pictures of the FWCD group in the picture gallery.

Click on the "Downloadable Documents" to the right for volunteer opportunities. 

**Please note:  beginning June 1, 2008, community service hours must be submitted within three months of the event in order to receive credit. 



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Prior authorization for community service hours is necessary.  You can download the form from this site, or you can stop by the Community Service bulletin board and pick one up.

There are many opportunities for community service that are promoted and advertised by the community service office (check the list of "Downloadable Documents" to the right). However, it is the responsibility of each student to decide what he/she wants to do and pursue the opportunity.

In coming Class of 2012 may start accruing hours on June 1, 2008. The requirement for graduation will be at least 40 hours of Community Service accumulated at a non-profit, charitable organization over four years in the Upper School. At least 20 hours of the 40 hours must be at the same off-campus site. A student may chose an alternate program by performing 60 hours of community service at various sites and not fulfill the 20 hour requirement at one site. Regardless of which choice is made a student may perform a maximum of 10 hours of community service on campus for credit over the course of four years.

Although we do not require any specific number of hours every year, we recommend that students volunteer at least 10 hours every year. Everyone is aware of the pressures students face as they move through the Upper School. We recommend that our students begin to accrue as many hours as possible as soon as possible.

Country Day requires a student to volunteer for at least 20 hours at one site because we have learned that students get the most out of their experiences when they work at one site long enough to feel they are valuable contributors to that organization.

New students to the Upper School:  Community Service hours may not be transferred from a former school.
New students who are entering the tenth grade will be expected to complete 30 hours by the last Friday of April of their graduation year. Fifteen of those hours must be at the same off-campus site. A student may chose to do a total of 45 hours of community service at various sites and not fulfill the 15 hour at one site requirement. Only 10 hours of on-campus community service will be accepted for graduation credit.

New students entering eleventh grade will be expected to complete 20 hours by the last Friday of April of their graduation year. Ten of those hours must be at the same off-campus site. A student may chose to do a total of 30 hours of community service at various sites and not fulfill the 10 hour at one site requirement. Only 10 hours of on-campus community service will be accepted for graduation credit.

New students entering the twelfth grade will be expected to complete ten hours by the last Friday of April of their graduation year.



6th Graders Recruit Race Team
The sixth graders from Fort Worth Country Day are again sponsoring our Race for the Cure team this year at Country Day. We have had a tremendous response from our school community over the last six years and would love to continue our tradition of the largest school team in Tarrant County; however, without your help that will be hard to do.

Please consider joining our Fort Worth Country Day team by logging on to KomenTarrant and joining our team. Our team code is CDS, but you only need to know the name of our school. Click on Register Now and then Join an Existing Team. At that point, enter CDS as the team, and it will link you to CDS: Fort Worth Country Day School. The race will be held April 7, Saturday this year in downtown Fort Worth. You can check the above website for additional details concerning the race. Please join our sixth grade students this year at the Race for the Cure in Fort Worth and Think Passionately about Pink and finally finding a cure!!!

7th Graders Go to Pythian Home
The seventh graders go to Weatherford six times and tutor, have snacks and enjoy playtime with children at the home from K-2nd grade. It is a wonderful experience for the seventh graders. They travel by advisory and thier advisor comes along as well as a parent volunteer. The students focus on doing homework one-on-one with a young person and reading story books to help with decoding and comprehension. After that the 7th graders play with board games, puzzles, and go outside. We are going to be going five more times this year through May. Here is a powerpoint slide show of this service project.

Middle School Service
The 5th and 6th Grade Student Council sponsored a coat drive before Thanksgiving. The MS school students and staff donated 76 coats.

Our 5th and 6th grade student council representatives delivered the coats to the mission, and Mrs. Eaton gave them an eye-opening tour. She told them that all 76 coats would be given away that day. No matter how many children are in a family, the mission only has enough coats to give one adult-size coat and one child-size coat per family.

After touring the mission, our students were very quiet. Laura Terry, who sponsors the student council along with Anne-Lise Woods, asked them what they thought. Several responded with a quiet, thoughtful, "Wow."

Approximately 100 students in grades 5-8 donated funds and participated in selecting gifts for other young people in need for the Middle School Adopt an Angel program. Thanks to their generosity, 17 little angels will have a memorable Christmas. They loaded up Debbie Schofield’s truck to make the delivery of this season’s Adopt an Angel gifts. Several faculty and staff members served as drivers and Angie Goin, MS registrar, organized all the chaperone envelopes, permission slips and money.

On Dec. 15, several members of National Junior Art Honor Society brought Christmas and Hanukkah cards to the residents of Oak Park Retirement Community. The cards were created not only by the 8th grade members but also by students in Miss Clifford and Miss DeChant’s lower school art classes. Maggie Albritton, Nancy Bonds, Megan Felton, Elizabeth Gaffin, Earl Hoover, Natalie Pettey, Sonny Stepp and Marshall Stouffer gave up their lunch period to visit and listen to stories from the senior citizens. The students enjoyed the experience so much that they are planning another trip for Valentine’s Day.

Grade level service learning projects are also well underway, and will continue throughout the remaining year.

Lower School
Kindergarten students collected mittens to be sent to the Children’s Closet at the close of school Dec. 20. It’s not too late to participate! Send your mittens in your child’s backpack.

The Lower School students collected gently used sweaters, and new mittens, hats and scarves for the girls at Casa Hogar, a home for orphaned girls in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Students had the opportunity to buy a book at the recent FWCDS Book Fair for the library at Our Mother of Mercy Catholic School and many of them did. On Dec. 13, the Lower School Student Council delivered the books to the school. The children at Our Mother of Mercy were thankful to receive a book of their own as well as numerous boxes of books for their school library.



LS Spring Projects

We will collect toiletries for the Presbyterian Night Shelter. Student Council Reps. will deliver the items and tour the women and children's center.

We will collect snacks for the summerbridge program during the month of May.

In February Lower School made 420 place mats for Valentine's Day and Student Council delivered them to Renaissance Park Multi Care Center.


Save the dates!
9/20/08 Trinity Trash Bash - clean up the river front
10/4/08 Cowtown Brush-up - paint a house
2/28/09 Cowtown Marathon - work the water stations         


 

*Check out the pictures (above) from Cowtown Brush-up.  We dodged the rain that day, and completed painting a challenging house.
*We participated in the Trinity Trash Bash... along our adopted section of the riverfront from the River Park Trailhead
*Members of Team Service attended a Volunteer Youth Leadership Institute at TCU.
*The dodge ball tournament was a huge success... raising almost $700.00 for Aids Outreach Center.
*12 Students participated in the October 20th Habitat Saturday with Mr. Cordell and another group worked December 1.
*The Student Council sponsored Canned Food Drive was a big success and much appreciated by WestAid Alliance.
*November 10th was another Trinity River clean-up.  Erin Loth was the River Trash Queen for the day!
*December was busy! Freshman collected toiletries for Goody Bags that wwere given to needy elderly through West Aid Alliance.  The Christmas Stockings collection for the Assessment Center was a huge success and the "extras" were taken to the Presbyterian Night Shelter.  The seniors brought mittens & gloves to their class Christmas lunch that wwere donated to the Union Gospel Mission.
*January 8th a group of 16 students and adults went to the Ronald McDonald House to take down Christmas decorations. *January 12 was the 3rd Habitat House Work Saturday for the school year.
*February 8 was a very successful Community Service Day.... over 280 people served 22 sites in the Fort Worth area.
*February 23 the "Water Station Hotshots" led by Steve Stackhouse spent 13 hours working at the Cowtown Marathon.
*The Spring Break Habitat for Humanity Crew worked at 2513 Highcrest for six days.