Children Learn Volunteerism, Spread Message of Environmental Protection

On Friday, the Community Partnership Charter School held an outdoor music concert for parents and community members.

The concert featured performances by the kindergarten through fourth grade classes, a culmination of the volunteer projects each class completed in an effort to spread the message of environmental protection.

All the students and teachers designed their own t-shirts with messages of how important it is to reduce, reuse, recycle and take care of the environment. Two student representatives from each class spoke at the microphone about their class’s volunteer project and the meaning behind the song they chose to sing.

“This is our first year doing this, and I think it will become an annual piece,” said Melanie Bryon, the schools principal. “We do a winter concert, and we’re struggling with something to do in the spring. So we should be back here next year too.”