Summer Session

Nativity School of Worcester supplements a school year’s worth of education with a required summer session. During July, Nativity Worcester faculty, staff and students return for three weeks of academic classes, field trips, and a service-learning program. During service-learning, students work with city organizations through an integrated academic and community-service-oriented program.

Our Summer of Service 2024 was the first ever co-divisional summer program, with fifth- and sixth-grade girls joining the community. Grades 5-7 performed community service at three different sites in mixed-grade group; each site focused on a specific service area. These sites included Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Salvation Army, and Broad Meadow Brook. 

For the sixteenth consecutive year, the eighth-grade students had the opportunity to work on the Highland Street Foundation’s Youth Philanthropy Initiative. Students working on this project learned about philanthropy and nonprofit organizations in their service learning classes. They reflected on their own personal values to determine what community services they deemed most important for the people within Worcester. The students then chose how to disburse the $5,000 of grant funds to these three organizations.