MISSION
The YES Team at
Sweetwater Episcopal Academy includes all SEA students. However, each class
(K-5) selects two Representatives who attend monthly meetings and serve as
leaders and role models within their respective classes. The YES Team is
designed to strengthen leadership skills while increasing the students’
awareness of the needs of others and their participation in service to the
school, the community, and the world beyond. The YES Team focuses on kindness,
good manners, respect, responsibility, reaching out to others, and school spirit
and teamwork.
ABOUT YES TEAM
The YES Team has raised the students’
and their families’ awareness of the needs of others and God’s call to us to
reach out to those in need.
The YES Team and its monthly outreach
projects draw an overwhelmingly generous response from the SEA families. Others
are helped while we experience a blessing in return. Projects of 2004 included
Pop-Tab collection for the Ronald McDonald House, School Supply collection for
Sharity, the purchase of a Bat House, hurricane relief food drive, annual Fall
Festival Pumpkin Patch with proceeds to Boggy Creek Camp for children with life
threatening diseases, holiday food collection for Loaves & Fishes in Apopka,
Christmas angel gifts).
Being a YES Team Representative is
regarded as a privilege. Students in grades 1-5 are elected by their classmates
based on qualities such as leadership, caring, and citizenship. The YES Team
meetings give students from Grades K-5 an opportunity to interact with one
another. The YES Team Reps assist with Rainbow Awards, make announcements in
Chapel, and receive some special opportunities that reinforce the privilege of
being selected.
The YES Team projects introduce the
school community to a variety of ways of helping others which individual
families can continue after SEA has completed its project. The YES Team and its
monthly projects also give parents who are involved in a community service an
additional resource to draw on as we like to support our parents’ efforts just
like they do ours. Increased consciousness to channels for service is raised.
When appropriate, outreach items are gathered in Chapel and a prayer is said
that items will be experienced as a sign of God’s love and ours for those who
receive them. Monies received from SEA's recycling efforts will help to support
the 2005-2006 outreach projects. When students are asked to donate money or an
item, parents are encouraged to ask them to do an extra chore to earn the money
or to take it from their savings.
Special leadership experience is given
to a 5th grader as President, a 4th grader as
VP-Treasurer, and a 3rd grader as Secretary. Speeches are given prior
to their election.
ELIGIBILITY
Grades K-5 (2 representatives per
class)
Academic Qualification: B average
Citizenship qualification: only
S's (a role model-this is important!)
No student may be a YES Team Rep more
than twice in his/her SEA career
MEETINGS
Time: 3:00 - 3:50 pm
Dates: First
TUESDAY of each month
Where: Art Room/Media Center
Faculty Coordinator:
Susie Bruno
Updated:
07/30/2008
