Service learning and global citizenship are important tenets of a Montessori education. All of our students—even our youngest primary students—participate in community service. 

Our kindergarteners regularly visit a local retirement community, and our 2-4 year old students join them twice a year. Our elementary classes volunteer at the local food bank on a monthly basis. To contextualize these efforts for students, we provide lessons on basic human needs, community leadership and action, as well as hunger and nutrition. These regular activities allow us to build and sustain strong relationships within our broader community. Additionally, we respond to local natural disasters by holding supply drives, celebrate Pinwheels for Peace each September, and have a book drive each spring to support the International Book Project. 

In the past, we have also:

• Participated in the CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocates) Superhero Run to support children in the family court system

• Collected and sorted toys for the Firefighter Toy Program with the Lexington Fraternal Order of Firefighters

• Donated gifts and blankets for foster children to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services,

• Collected school supplies for underserved children

• Donated to Caring Costumes for Halloween 

• Held a winter clothing drive

• Collected supplies for the Lexington Humane Society  

• Donated to Pennies for Patients to support cancer research