Mulberry Middle is so proud of all the creative and thoughtful ways our CFES scholars have chosen to reach out - to each other, to the school, and to the Mulberry community!
Projects that were entirely scholar driven (meaning they were brainstormed, planned, presented for administration’s approval, as well as implemented by scholars) included:
- Selling items at a school dance to raise money for the Donald and Vancilla Williams Foundation, a local charity that provides aid to homeless college students.
- A scholar team made gift baskets with college supplies for Mulberry High graduating migrant students accepted to a college or university.
- A team encouraged other groups to help them write thank you notes to the cafeteria workers, day and night custodians, CFES staff, our Federal Express computer scientist contacts, and the Free Teacher Market that provided some of our classroom supplies this year.
- The CFES elective classes undertook an offshoot idea to make specific, authentic, individualized thank you notes for every teacher during Teacher Appreciation Week.
- However, when the district announced that Teacher Appreciation Week would be a week earlier than the national observance the scholars were disappointed that they wouldn’t have all the notes done in time. Other classes heard about the time crunch and rallied to each create a project. They all collaborated so that CFES, all by themselves, came up with an ENTIRE WEEK of little thank yous for 93 teachers.
- The CFES elective classes undertook an offshoot idea to make specific, authentic, individualized thank you notes for every teacher during Teacher Appreciation Week.
- The 6th grade elective class got our Principal to approve their project to artistically draw inspirational quotes on poster boards, hung in the hallway of the building where state tests were administered.
- 2 teams participated in Mulberry’s Relay for Life. They raised funds, worked the booth the night of the event, and walked the track to hand out 8 separate slips of paper with college knowledge facts. These slips challenged participants to collect all 8 and see Mrs. Larrow for a prize. (5 sets were redeemed the following day.)