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PPPCS School-Wide Service day featured on City Council website!

Patterson Park Public Charter School (PPPCS) held its 1st Annual School-Wide Service Day on Tuesday, October 14th

PPPCS partnered with Audubon Maryland-DC and Toyota’s Together Green program to provide a day of service opportunities for students of all grades and their families. The event gave us an opportunity to enhance our community while providing students with practical skills and an opportunity to earn community service hours. Over 500 students and dozens of our families participated, making Service Day a success.

Kindergarteners worked on fire safety by creating fire safety posters, distributing fire safety pamphlets to our neighbors, and hosting a smoke detector battery drive.
  • 1st Graders visited the Hatton Senior Center in Canton and the John Booth Center in Highlandtown to perform a song and lead a craft activity.
  • 2nd Graders partnered with the Baltimore Harbor Watershed Foundation to learn about water pollution and our storm drains, and visited Harris Creek.
  • 3rd Graders worked on "Respecting Our School" by creating classroom recycling bins, recycled art and doing cleanup around the school.
  • 4th Graders learned about the role of trees in preventing erosion and planted with Audubon in the afternoon.
  • 5th Graders worked with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and cleaned up invasive plant species from around the Boat Lake in Patterson Park.
  • 6th & 7th Graders planted in the park with Audubon and planned a school-wide "Halloween for Hunger" campaign in partnership with the Students Sharing Coalition.

Patterson Park Public Charter School opened its doors in fall 2005 and is a charter school whose mission includes community involvement, service learning, and good citizenship. It currently serves grades K-7 and will expand to grades pre-K to 8.

http://www.baltimorecitycouncil.com/RollCall_103108.htm