Transfiguration School

Community Service

Some service activities are specific to certain grades as part of sacramental preparation. Each month, 8th-grade students help the St. Vincent dePaul Society deliver their many donations of food to needy families in Tarrytown. The 6th-grade Girl Scouts regularly visit with the residents at Tarrytown Hall Care Center. The upper-grade students write letters in Spanish to send to the children in our twin parish in El Salvador.

Other community services are whole-school activities. Each year the students take up a Thanksgiving collection of nonperishable food for the needy. The Christmas season brings our Hat and Mitten Tree to the entrance lobby of the school. Students decorate the tree with new mittens, gloves, hats, and scarves, that are then distributed to the needy in time for Christmas. Every month, our school families collect meals and distribute them to the homeless as part of the Midnight Run.

These are just a few of the many ways the students at Transfiguration School help others. We are proud of their willing participation in community-service projects!

Hat and Mitten Tree
Help decorate our Christmas Tree with hats and mittens from 12/1-12/19 for distribution to the needy.

Notes

Recently, eighth graders organized the school clothing drive for the families that were displaced by the recent fire in Sleepy Hollow. Four eighth graders were also recently recognized for their writing program with the residents of the Tarrytown Hall Care Center. The 6th, 7th and 8th grade members of the Transfiguration School Choir performed, under the direction of Ms. Joan Deltoro, at the Marymount Convent to benefit the retired sisters in residence.