COMMUNITY SERVICE IS A WAY OF LIFE

SAN LUIS OBISPO: Old Mission School educates its students by living the motto of the founder and President of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman: "Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time."

As part of our curriculum from preschool to middle school, OMS encourages and requires acts of community service. Linda Murray, Assistant Principal and Kindergarten Teacher, introduces the preschoolers to community service in a family-to-family program. Throughout the school year, each class on the OMS Nativity campus collects items for their special family according to the family's wish list. The class continues to serve the same family throughout their attendance at the OMS Nativity campus.