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VIP Volunteers: Inspiring Community Through Action

We are VIPs (Volunteers In Practice) from Weymouth High School dedicated to volunteering to help our community and inspire others to do the same. Join us in our mission to make a difference! We organize food drives, celebrate volunteerism, and encourage everyone to participate in acts of kindness and service. Let's grow our volunteerism tree together and make a positive impact in our school and beyond.

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VIP Volunteers: Inspiring Community Through Action

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  1. We are VIPs

  2. Volunteers In Practice • We’re from Weymouth High School • As VIPs we: • Volunteer our time to help people in our community • Work to inspire others to become volunteers themselves

  3. We Run Food Drives

  4. Mr. Faria’s 2015 Class

  5. Volunteers In Practice • The money we raise from the food drive goes to the Weymouth Food Pantry • 2014 we raised $3,300 • 2015 we raised $5,000 • 2016 we raised $8,500

  6. We Celebrate the High Schoolers Volunteerism

  7. We Celebrate YOUR Volunteerism

  8. Weycathlon 2016 Video

  9. Who gets to go to Weycathlon 2017? Students who do great volunteerism! 25 students from this school get to go. 5 students from each grade.

  10. What is volunteering? Volunteering means that you work to help others. It means you lend a helping hand.

  11. YOU can volunteer at home • Do a chore without being asked • Bring school supplies in for your teacher • Donate books you’ve outgrown • Do yard work for a neighbor • Read to your younger sibling • Write a thank you note for a soldier • Donate food to the Weymouth Food Pantry • Bring cookies to your custodian • Help put away groceries

  12. YOU can volunteer at school • Leave a happy note for a classmate. • Write thank you cards for your bus driver or WeyCare workers • Tell the principal how great your teacher is • Make friends with someone new at school • Make a card to thank last year’s teacher • Help with a classroom chore

  13. YOU can volunteer with others • Help with a parent council fundraiser • Run a food drive for the Weymouth Food Pantry • Run a coat drive for Cradles to Crayons • Organize a school clean-up day • Take treats to the local fire station • Write to pen pals through a program like ePals • Collect letters and care package items to send to soldiers through an organization like Operation Gratitude

  14. Will you be a VIP?

  15. Will you do acts of volunteerism!

  16. Growing Volunteerism Challenge • There is a flyer going home in your backpacks today • It explains everything we said • Attached will be a few helping hands • Do acts of volunteerism at home, bring in your hands, and tape them to the tree • School with the most hands wins the service event at Weycathlon 2017 • Students with the most hands may get to go to Weycathlon 2017.

  17. Let’s Review • What is volunteerism? • Can you do acts of volunteerism? • Do small acts make a difference? • How can you male your school’s volunteerism tree grow? • How can you help your school win Weycathlon 2017 and maybe even go there? • Who wants to be a VIP?

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