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North Charleston Community Service

Since March 2020, we have been helping our friends in various North Charleston communities through a series of ongoing weekend service events. The program supports Charleston County School District students and families from Midland Park Elementary School, Pinehurst Elementary School, Stall High School, Deer Park Middle School, and Ladson Elementary School, providing a variety of much-needed items such as shelf-stable food, baby items, books, toys, and more.

Two weekends each month, University School students spend time sorting and organizing donated items for these kind community members, packing them in boxes and loading them onto our buses. In addition to support from our students, this program is possible because of the kindness of others in our school community. Take a look at our Wish List to see if there are items you might be able to donate to this very good cause!

Learn more about this and other community service programs and initiatives at University School of the Lowcountry.

Campus Cleanup

Each year, as we head into Winter Break, University School students work together to help clean up Hibben’s campus. Activities like our campus cleanup allow our students the opportunity to understand that helping others is important.

Service Gift Wrapping

In support of our ongoing COVID service program, we’ll head to Winter Break as students spend time together wrapping presents to give to our friends in the program.

For more on this ongoing service initiative, read about our Community Service efforts.

Annual Day of Caring

Every year, Trident United Way coordinates Days of Caring, a community-wide service initiative where volunteer groups offer assistance to area nonprofits. University School of the Lowcountry has participated in Days of Caring for over 15 years. This demonstration of learning in action has become a hallmark Learning Outside the Classroom experience for University School students.

Read all about Community Service at University School.

YALLFest Guest Speaker: Maggie Tokuda-Hall

YALLFest is a public two-day annual young adult book festival in Charleston, South Carolina that is the largest of its kind in the South. Because of one of our teachers, Sara Peck, is a long-time organizer of this unique event, we get especially excited about this special event for fans of young adult literature.

Today, our students will enjoy a special guest speaker as part of YALLFest, author Maggie Tokuda Hall, author of The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, and its sequel, The Siren, the Song, and the Spy. For more on Maggie, you may visit her website.

To learn more about YALLFest and see the event schedule, visit the event website.