Service Program Requirements

• We hope our students will have an experience that allows them to: develop a habit of giving back to their community, to step outside of their comfort zone and challenge themselves, to reflect on their experience, and to learn more about the population in which they served

Here are the required number of community service hours for the 2023-2024 school year:

9th grade: 15 hours due Wednesday March 20, 2024

10th grade: 20 hours due Wednesday March 27, 2024

11th grade: 25 hours due Wednesday, April 10 , 2024

12th grade: 30 hours due Wednesday, April 17, 2024

 

All service hours must be completed in-person (not virtually) through an approved non-profit organization, day care, or assisted living facility.

Here is a link to our Pre-Approved Sites. If you would like to do service at another location, please fill out this Approval Request Form.

Students can begin earning service hours for next year’s requirements on June 9th. All hours earned over the summer must be submitted or handed in by Friday, September, 22nd.

**An important note: we will be launching, in the first week of school, the use of Track it Forward, an app that will track our service program. For now, continue using the Service Verification Form.**

1. Choose a Pre-Approved Site or fill out the Approval Request Form.

2. Volunteer for the number of required hours indicated by the student’s grade level above.

3. Complete the Service Verification Form.

4. Either make a pdf or take a photo of the form and upload it to the Service Verification Form Upload.

5. A Service Reflection paper will be due in every student's Theology class at the end of the year. 

• All service hours must be completed in-person (not virtually) through an approved non-profit organization, day care, or assisted living facility.

• Here is a link to our Pre-Approved Sites. If you would like to do service at another location, please fill out this Approval Request Form.

• Even if the events are taking place at McNamara the Approval Request Form needs to be filled out. Not all events will count as service hours. 

• Students may not earn service hours for being the manager of a sports team.

• Students may not miss school to earn service hours.

• Students will not be credited for more than 5 hours on a school night or 7 hours on a non-school day.
  If service hours are not completed by the grade’s deadline: student must complete 5 additional hours of service.

• If service hours are not completed by the last deadline: student must complete the service program during summer school.

• If the summer service program is not completed: student cannot return for the following school year.

• Students can complete all required hours doing the same thing or they can mix and match.