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COMMUNITY SERVICE education, community service in the service-learning programs, the Middle It is part of Landon’s core Lower School stands as an essential School, in partnership with its parent mission to develop talented part of the division’s curriculum. community and its student leaders, Whether involved in programs that is dedicated to creating activities and young men not only for speak to responsibilities within a events that help students develop the lives of accomplishment, larger, global community, or whether skills necessary to serve others in our but also for lives of serving more local constituencies, communities. participation in community service responsibility and caring. projects reinforces the importance of As a consequence, the the Lower School ethos celebrating UPPER SCHOOL school requires its boys to honesty, doing one’s best, and looking out for the other fellow, no matter who Though community service particicommit to a community pation is not mandatory for boys in or where that other fellow may be. service program marked by the Upper School, the vast majority of students demonstrate that such enduring and wide-ranging a mandate is unnecessary; indeed, opportunities. Involvement MIDDLE SCHOOL Upper School boys not only join in these activities helps Landon Middle School works in extant service projects in great numbers, but also create and develop develop personal attributes myriad ways to fulfill the school’s mission to “[prepare] talented boys specific areas of service on their own. and dispositions — civic for productive lives as accomplished, Those seeking opportunities found responsibility, crossresponsible and caring men.” As part through national organizations of the effort to meet this goal, Landon can aid Habitat for Humanity, the cultural understanding, both encourages and facilitates Special Olympics, Operation Smile, environmental stewardship, student participation in community and the American Red Cross blood leadership skills, critical service and service learning. To drive. Others can engage in local ensure that students understand work, such as tutoring at Ivymount thinking, care for place the connection between serving the and Garrison Elementary Schools; and for others — that are greater community and becoming or on-campus programs recently socially responsible citizens, Landon created by students, such as Dodging essential to a complete creates, supports and promotes for Diabetes. In the Upper School, Landon education.
LOWER SCHOOL Community service efforts in the Lower School encourage boys to broaden their awareness of the needs of others, and identify activities in which boys can participate to address those needs. As part of Landon’s extended program of character
community service opportunities and service-learning reflections that enable students to develop the following skills: the compassion to appreciate the needs of others; the confidence and competence to address these needs appropriately; and the conviction and capacity to serve others in their time and place of need. Through its ethics program, in-school and extracurricular community service, and -5-
Landon boys are given a great many occasions to serve others, and this activity enables students to practice and develop a disposition of care that endures beyond school requirements and situations.
