Community Service

At BB&N, community service plays a primary role in the lives of students. We encourage our students to step outside of the Middle School environment and do something for the larger world, whether it be running a coat drive, assembling baskets for homeless shelters, or cleaning up the banks of the Charles. Each year on the day before Thanksgiving, every member of the Middle School joins forces for Giving Thanks Day, an outreach project in which students and faculty gather into groups and perform different community service-oriented tasks. Last year’s activities included: --hosting a group of wide-eyed preschoolers from the Peabody School in Cambridge for a morning full of playing games, reading, and decorating cookies; --making meals for the Cambridge day shelter On the Rise; --visiting the Red Cross Food Pantry in Boston to donate food and help with its distribution on the Red Cross’ busiest day of the year; --landscaping and creating natural habitats in the yard of the local K-8 Tobin School, and interacting with students there. Our community service club meets weekly, and offers an opportunity for students who are especially interested in serving their community to plan and implement various activities and projects.  This year, the club's focus is environmental.  We will be exploring a variety of ways to help our campus as well as the commuity at large "go green."