Service Projects at CLES

Composting Lunch Scraps

Scraps from school lunches are becoming rich soil through a composting program managed by Fifth Graders.

At the end of the lunch periods each school day, students volunteer to collect food scraps and add them to the composter. When the composting bin gets too full, Secondary School students help the Fifth Graders empty it into a larger bin near the district’s nature trail.

Fifth Graders visit other classrooms to explain composting to younger students and encourage them to save food scraps from lunch.

Fifth Grade Food Drive

For one week in December, Fifth Grade students collect food items for the Mayville Food Pantry.

Recycling Programs

A recycling project at CLCS collects high-tech waste, while providing benefits for students in the Elementary School.  The Parent Teacher Council's program to benefit the Elementary School accepts used computer inkjet cartridges and cell phones (chargers not needed). To donate spent ink cartridges or cell phones, deliver them to any school office or to the receptacles in the Elementary Commons. 

Items not accepted at CLCS may be recycled through the "e-scrapping" project at the BOCES Hewes Center in Ashville to benefit the Chautauqua County Humane Society.