Service is Part of the Curriculum at Da Vinci Waldorf School
Upper grades students participate in numerous service projects.
This year, Da Vinci Waldorf School sixth- through eighth-graders have been involved in three service projects. They volunteer with Citizens for Conservation, based in Barrington; Walk on Farm in Barrington, which provides equine assisted therapy; and at Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center—the veteran’s hospital in North Chicago. “It’s very important for adolescents to feel a purpose, a place in the world—that they’re not just receiving from the world,” said eighth-grade teacher Kathy Matlin. The students have been removing buckthorn at Flint Creek Savanna South for Citizens for Conservation. The students service project at Walk on Farm involves cleaning horse stalls and grooming horses that are used in equine assisted …
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