Community Service is a priority at Marquette Catholic

Throughout the year, students are provided with multiple service opportunities, such as Make-a-Difference Day, Relay for Life, blood drives, school concession stands, Hospice Run, and offering assisstance at the request of community members.  We believe service experiences help students achieve feelings of pride, satisfaction, and achievement,  which we hope will encourage them to continue to help others even after their years at Marquette.  Service is highly promoted through Theology classes - some of the community service requirements for the 7th through 12th graders are listed below.

Click here for Senior Independent Service Project Guidelines
 

Marquette Catholic 6-12

Service Hours Guidelines

Hours Required Per Semester

6th - 8th grade: 10 hours (50 pts of final semester grade)

9th - 10th grade: 12 hours (60 pts of final semester grade)

11th grade: 15 hours (75 pts of final semester grade)

12th grade: 6 hours + senior service project (30 pts of final semester grade, service project is separate grade)

• Service hours must be completed in the area of school, parish, and community.  
• You must turn in at least 1 hour from each area (school, parish, community)  towards your total. 
• Service hours are due by the last day of the semester, no exception. 
• Service completed during the school day as a part of a class or make a difference day will not count towards your hours requirement. 
• There are no extensions or extra credit for extra service hours. 

Summer Service Hours

A maximum of 4 summer service hours may count towards your total number of hours for the first semester. 

Documentation

Service hour slips are found in Ms. Timmerman’s room. You will turn in completed service hour slips in the appropriate basket, found next to the blank slips basket.

An adult supervisor must sign your service slip. This should be the adult that you lined up your service with (Fr. Gross or other parish employees, a teacher, or community member) This adult should rarely, if ever, be your parent.

If you are ever unsure of how many service hours you have completed for the semester, always feel free to talk to or email Ms. Timmerman

What does not count as service hours:

• Paid jobs for a business
• Work done around the house or for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, and sisters, etc.
• Work for which you have received pay (mowing, shoveling, ect.)
• Hours completed as an SES student or demerit/detention serving
• Babysitting
• If you are unsure if something will count, see Ms. Timmerman.

Great ideas of things to count for service hours:

• School:
  • Work the concession stand
  • Scoreboard/admission for JH games
  • Run livestream at games
  • Clean weight room
  • Clean classrooms
  • Sweep the stage
  • Sweep the buses and clean windows (see Mr. Sturm for all the above)
  • Reshelving books in the library (see homework center teacher)
  • Cooperate with NHS volunteer project
  • Clean windows at school (see Mrs. Schroeder)
  • Vacuum classrooms after school (see Mrs. Timmerman)
  • Scrub desks and tabletops after school (see Mrs. Timmerman)
  • Catholic Schools Week breakfast
  • Activity Fund Steak Fry (see Mr. Sturm)
  • Set up for Magic of Children (see Kerensa Kettmann)
  • Help teachers prepare for family day/CSW
  • Contact elementary teachers to provide help after school

• Community
  • Lions Club putting up flags for patriotic holidays (see Mr. Hollensbee)
  • Food Share (Kyle Strosahl, 563-599-0303)
  • Bread Basket
  • Butterfly Garden (see Keresa Kettmann)
  • Cole Park Cleanup
  • Fireman’s Breakfast (see Mrs. Schroeder)
  • Fireman’s Chili Supper (see Mrs. Schroeder)
  • Fireman’s Fish Fry (see Mrs. Schroeder)
  • Ambulance Omelet Breakfast (Chris Read)
  • Umpire/ref city games
  • Heritage Days cleanup
  • Legion Fish Fry
  • Pick up trash in park or along river
  • Visit/make cards/play games at the nursing home
  • Visit a homebound person
  • Make and bring a meal to a homebound person (elderly, just had a baby, post-surgery, etc.)
  • Yard work/moving/shoveling for an elderly or disabled person.
  • Donate blood

• Parish
  • Pork Roast
  • Seasonal Decorations (see Gail Michels)
  • Ministries (sing/play instrument, serve, lector, eucharistic minister, usher, video)(see Ms. Timmerman)
  • Children’s Liturgy
  • Talk to Denise about cleaning jobs in church
  • Weeding around church
  • Cleanup after church events
  • Help at Christmas Fair
  • Jesus’ birthday party (see Katie Petersen)
  • St. Donatus Sausage Breakfast
  • Springbrook Chicken BBQ