Community Service

Living our Largeness of Heart

Community service at Oldfields is encouraged, planned, and performed by girls who are making a difference every day.

At Oldfields, students perform community service willingly. Whether it is painting benches, babysitting a faculty child, tutoring a fellow student or refurbishing houses in Kentucky, Oldfields girls demonstrate their largeness of heart daily.

Beginning in the school year 2012-2013, each Oldfields student will be required to complete 80 hours of community service as a graduation requirement.  The guidelines are as follows:

1. Up to 25% (no more than 20 hours) may be completed doing service work at Oldfields.
2. Students may fulfill some or all of their hours doing a community service based May Program.
3. Hours completed at another high school and recorded on the student’s transcript will be accepted.
4. Hours completed the summer before a student begins her first year at Oldfields will be accepted.
5. Community service hours completed through our weekend activities program will be accepted.
6. Community service hours completed during vacations will be accepted.
7. Any student who completed a community service based May Program up through 2012 has fulfilled her requirement.

For students who are returning to Oldfields School, who have not completed a community service based May Program, the requirement is as follows:

• Class of 2013 must complete a community service based May Program
• Class of 2014 must complete at least 40 hours
• Class of 2015 must complete at least 60 hours
• Class of 2016 must complete 80 hours
• Class of 2017 must complete 80 hours

For students who are new to Oldfields in 2012-2013, the requirement is as follows:

• Class of 2013 must complete 20 hours
• Class of 2014 must complete at least 40 hours
• Class of 2015 must complete at least 60 hours
• Classes of 2016 and 2017 must complete 80 hours

• All hours must be approved in advance by the student’s advisor.
• All hours must be completed by January 1 of a student’s senior year unless she is a new senior that year or is planning to complete her hours during May Program.
• All hours must be documented with a letter from the supervisor indicating the hours completed by that student, the dates she worked and the type of work she did.
• Advisors will keep track of each advisees hours.
• The community service requirement will be overseen by the Dean of Students.
• May Program hours will be documented by the May Program leaders and only those hours spent doing community service will be counted (transportation time to and from the location will not count).

In support of our mission statement's recognition of the value of social responsibility, community service activities are regularly scheduled within our weekend activities.