WE WILL ROCK YOU

BY MRS. TINA BAKER, HEAD OF LOWER SCHOOL

For the past three years, students in grades PK3-5 have celebrated the excitement of learning and giving to the community with the annual Rock Your School Week. Former head and event organizer Dr. Deborah Davis shared, “The week-long celebration is filled with fun events and activities. It began as a pick-us-up during 2021 to help us get through COVID. It allowed students and teachers to focus on fun events and giving back to our community.”

Students, teachers, and parents transform hallways and classrooms into an imaginative display of excitement and enthusiasm. This year, preschoolers and kindergarteners walked through a lifesize Candy Land, while lower school students traveled through books such as The Wizard of Oz.

A s students experience learning in thematic settings, the week has an overarching goal of giving back to our local community. MPCS families and students donate cereal boxes, boxed milk, and children's books throughout the week. The entire lower school participates in the creation of an extended domino chain of cereal boxes that are then donated to MUST Ministries. This year, families and students donated more than 700 boxes of cereal to the MSGA MUST Food Pantry. Dr. Davis said, “Over the past three years, we have donated more than 1,500 boxes of cereal.” Teachers and students also distribute donations of new or gently used books to Books for Africa, experiencing first-hand how we are the hands and feet of Jesus to families in need. The goal is to help students realize that there are children and families in neighboring communities who do not have many of their basic daily needs met and that we can make a difference in their lives.

With an intentional connection between Rock Your School Week and an opportunity to serve, MPCS instills in students the importance of blessing others while learning and having fun.