Beach Haven School students participate in 'Random Acts of Kindness' month

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Second-graders from the Beach Haven School
drop off their donations at the local animal shelter.

In honor of “Random Acts of Kindness” month in February, students of the Beach Haven School participated in a service-learning project to see who could collect the most donations for the Southern Ocean County Animal Shelter as well as the Food Pantry at the Saint Francis Community Center. The school provided a total of 426 donations.

“The sixth grade was in charge of counting up the items, and they did it by percentage because our classrooms are so small. If one class had 12 kids and another had six, that wasn’t fair,” explained EvaMarie Raleigh, superintendent of the school.

The second-grade class took the lead with the highest percentage of items. To celebrate their victory, the students were given the opportunity to take their collected items to the animal shelter on Tuesday, March 18.

“The field trip for the winning class is to the animal shelter because animals are fun and cute,” said Raleigh.

The donations for the St. Francis Food pantry were delivered last week by Vern Berube, the school’s bus driver.

— Kelley Anne Essinger


This article was published in The SandPaper.