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Deal Middle School Gives Back to the City It Loves

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Writing cards. Packing sandwiches. Weeding gardens. All for a purpose—and a smile.

These are just a few activities that took place on Wednesday, June 4, during Deal Middle School’s fifth annual Deal Gives Back service bonanza. This event grew out of efforts to demonstrate the ideals of the International Baccalaureate curriculum—one of which is to empower students to serve the community.

Over 1300 Deal students and staff fanned out over the city, participating in projects that made a real impact and teaching students how to practice compassion and care to others. Deal Gives Back was a culmination of all service learning activities occurring throughout the year. 6th graders had a focus on homelessness in DC; 7th graders zeroed in on hunger in the area, and 8th graders tackled schools.

Most 8th graders spent the day in DCPS elementary schools: Marie Reed, Plummer, Smothers, Moten, H.D. Cooke, Nalle, Orr, Thomson, Patterson, Turner, Maury, and Savoy, and C.D. Harris. Students helped clean and paint buildings, replenish libraries, read to students, and more.

7th graders worked at organizations such as the Mid-Atlantic Gleaning Network (which provides produce for the hungry), USDA Community Garden, Ronald McDonald House, DC Food Bank, DC Central Kitchen, A Wider Circle, and Food and Friends Service Learning.

6th graders participated in reading at Murch ES and Janney ES, put on walkathon to benefit the homeless, made sweet treats for the DC Fire Department and Metropolitan Police Department, wrote cards for the Children’s Hospital, Custodians, and military, visited Wounded Warriors, put on a charity car wash, and more.

Check out some of the action below!