Community Service

Fifth and Sixth Formers may volunteer for a community service project one term per year in place of athletics. Typically, volunteers work five afternoons a week. Volunteers may choose to work with children, or the elderly in a nursing home, or at the Newport Art Museum, The Gaudet Middle School, The Thames Science Center, or the Sachuest Point Wildlife Refuge.

The student members of the Big Brothers/Big Sisters club meet regularly with underpriveleged boys and girls from the Newport area. The on-going commitment these students make to the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program enables them to establish strong relationships with the children, providing guidance and support and forming lasting friendships.

SG hosts a blood drive each fall to collect donations for the RI blood bank. On average, students and faculty contribute a total of 40 pints of blood each year to be used in and around Rhode Island.

A graduate of St. George’s School founded Camp Ramleh in 1926, as an organization that provides an opportunity for inner-city children to spend time in the out-of-doors. About twenty campers, ages seven to 12, attend each five-day session. Camp Ramleh employs approximately ten St. George's students as counselors each summer.

The St. George's community supports a number of charitable organizations with dress-down days every other Friday. Recent donations have gone to tsunami relief, to defray the costs of a heart transplant for a local girl, to create care packages for troops in Iraq, to VH1's Save the Music, and to the Light of Life foundation for thyroid cancer research. Students and faculty who wish to sponsor a dress-down day turn in a written proposal to be considered by the Community Service Council.

St. George's and Middletown High School students collaborate to collect food donations from Middletown residents to be used in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center's holiday food baskets for local families in need. Each fall, approximately 150 students come out for the Sunday morning event. The drive has run for 20 consecutive years.

Each year, the St. George's community commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with a full slate of community service projects. Faculty and students join approximately 20 local outreach agencies to paint, clean, care for children, perform concerts, clear yards, host coat drives, prepare food, and collect clothing to be sorted and donated to Native American reservations and to the Salvation Army.

Not Advocating Drug Abuse is an organization designed to teach kids and the SG community the effects of drugs and alcohol. The SG NADA club presents topics at local middle schools.

Students Against Destructive Decisions sponsor speakers and other events throughout the year and aims to educate students about the consequences that may potentially come with making bad decisions. The club focuses itself on the issue of teenage drunk driving but other issues will most likely be discussed as well.

Wellness in Student Education, is a club that aims at a higher education in student health. We strive to provide the school with information regarding substance abuse, emotional stress and other hazards that plague the youth of today. WISE club members join up with students from NADA to comprise a student organization that seeks health awareness. Be WISE today, and you will be thankful tomorrow.