Community Service

From the day Langley students arrive on campus, we stress community service as a key part of each child’s educational experience. The values and sense of social responsibility students learn here will help them use their academic accomplishments for greater good and become contributing members of society.

In 2003, Langley unveiled the Community Contract as a way of articulating the school’s five core values: respect, kindness, honesty, trustworthiness, and citizenship. As the contract states, “These values are essential to creating an environment in which students care for themselves, develop a sense of personal integrity and self-discipline, and learn the value of individual and collective responsibility.”

Langley’s many wide-reaching community service projects teach children of every age to give of their time and talents to help those who are less fortunate. In addition to fostering this sense of caring, community service projects teach our students many valuable skills and life lessons, including creativity, sharing, unselfishness, compassion, and teamwork. Because they often develop and organize service projects themselves, Lower and Middle School students also learn leadership skills and build self-confidence.

Recent Community Service Projects

Primary School

• Mitten Tree Project: Collecting mittens for local Head Start children
• Project Harvest: Collecting canned goods for the needy
• O.B. Clinic: Collecting baby supplies for a local O.B. clinic
• Used Books: Collecting used books for local Head Start children

Lower School

• Holiday Giving Tree: Collecting hats, mittens, books, and toys for charity
• Toy Flea Market: Selling used toys to fellow students to raise money for charity
• Clean Up Our Watershed: Picking up trash to help improve water quality
• Plant Sale: Growing and selling plants to benefit an environmental charity
• Holiday Stockings: Creating and filling stockings with art supplies for hospital-bound children
• Recycling: Collecting recyclables throughout the Lower School building
• Project SHARE: Collecting non-perishable food for the needy

Middle School

• S.O.M.E.: Making weekly trips to So Others Might Eat to serve breakfast to the homeless before school
• Project Harvest: Collecting canned goods for the needy
• Campus Projects: Picking up trash around campus and collecting recyclables throughout the Middle School

School-wide Projects

• Walk-A-Thon: Organizing a walk around campus to benefit the homeless