A Big Wellness Week Ahead!

We have a full seven days of wellness and outreach activities on and off campus, starting with our second annual Fall Family Community Outreach Day on Saturday, 10/22. During Outreach Day, Calvert families will beautify campus, clean up Stony Run, and make casseroles for Baltimore's neediest citizens. On Sunday, the Calvert School Race for the Cure Team--which is over 70 strong as of now--will run to support a cure for breast cancer. The Fall Food Drive will take place from Monday, 10/24, through Friday, 10/28. This year, we are collecting fresh foods for the first time, which will provide families from area city schools access to healthy food and produce. Great foods to contribute would be russet and sweet potatoes, squashes such as butternut, acorn and spaghetti, and root vegetables such as radishes, parsnips, turnips and beets. Other items needed include green beans, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, apples, and oranges. Moreover, on 10/24, Lower School classes will plant 50 trays of seeds in a collaborative effort with Real Food Farms and Constellation Energy. A few weeks after, some Middle School students will plant the mature seedlings in the ground at Real Food Farms, and then in a few months, students (and families if needed) will harvest the plants and sell at a farm stand. Many thanks to Calvert teachers Mollie Williams, Jennifer Yapsuga, Larisa Kamp, Erin Strom, and Jennifer Armstrong for overseeing the aforementioned activities! It should be a terrific, worthwhile week for students, faculty and staff, and families.