Posted December 18, 2023
Updated December 20, 2023
Updated December 22, 2023
Plymouth School District schools, staff, students, and families have been helping others throughout this holiday season. Here are some examples of their generosity!
Panther ’Fits Student Sharing & Career Closet
Plymouth High School has launched a new effort to help students called the Panther ’Fits Student Sharing & Career Closet!
The “closet,” located in Room B220 near the library, is open from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. during school hours; staff also can admit students outside those hours for private shopping.
The Sharing & Career Closet offers free clothes, shoes, coats, personal hygiene items, school supplies, and other items students need to help them succeed. A student preparing for a job interview can “shop” for appropriate attire, for example, or a student needing cold-weather clothes can pick out a jacket and mittens.
Want to contribute? Contact the PHS Office at 920-893-6911 to set up a time to bring in donations of new and clean, gently used items. Monetary donations are also welcome.
The effort was spearheaded by PHS teachers Megan Hummitzsch and Tracy Heinbuch, retired teacher Kay Tharp, and administrative assistants Denall Moore and Grace Wascher.
The initiative was launched at the high school, but the team has plans to spread it to other district schools in the future.
“We are so thankful for our administration's support,” Mrs. Wascher said. “We're excited for all the community outpouring and all the students who have already benefited from it.”
Plymouth High School
- National Honor Society held its annual Food Drive from Dec. 11 to 18 for the Plymouth Food Pantry, collecting $2,000 and 2,250 food items for the Plymouth Food Pantry.
- FFA partnered with the NHS Food Drive, assigning an item for members to bring each day from Dec. 1 to 19.
- WeACT did numerous activities, including helping at the Sheboygan County Food Bank, making cards for the Camo Quilt Project and people in hospice care, ringing bells at Walmart (two nights), visiting Songbird Pond, handing out hot chocolate to all students and staff, organizing a giving tree for those in need within the district, “adopting” three children from the Salvation Army, and donating to Rocky Knoll's Secret Santa program. WeACT also held a pop-up Craft and Cookie sale Nov. 30 during Charming Downtown Christmas to raise funds for its charitable efforts.
- Sophomores spent the morning Dec. 5 making lunches and cards for the Salvation Army in the school cafeteria, as well as volunteering at St. Vincent de Paul, Songbird Pond, and Plymouth Public Library.
- Battle of Highway 23 basketball games on Dec. 19 featured a Money Minute, which raised $1,500 for Lemons of Love to buy chemo kits for local citizens going through cancer treatments.
- Wrestling team members helped Project Angel Hugs during the Christmas Parade on Nov. 24 and again during Charming Downtown Christmas on Dec 2.
- Dance team members caroled at Rocky Knoll Health Care Center on Dec. 9.
- Youth Services class members created Christmas cards and ornaments for Project Angel Hugs.
- Choir members spent the afternoon Nov. 2 caroling for local businesses in downtown Plymouth.
Other schools
- Riverview Food Drive, held the week before Thanksgiving, collected 40 crates of food and raised $665 for the Plymouth Food Pantry.
- Parkview Diaper Drive, held Nov. 14-21, collected 119 items (diapers, hand soap, laundry detergent, wipes, etc.) and a total of 3,670 diapers. The third grade brought in the most items (34) and diapers (1,058).
- Riverview staff donated to a giving tree to help Riveview families.
- Riverview sixth-grade students made cards for residents of Rocky Knoll, then 60 choir students visited to share the gift of song. The trip, like similar trips for other grades, was made possible by a Peter R. Marsh Music Grant.
- Fairview kindergartners took food items to the collection site at Piggly Wiggly.
- Elementary Pegasus students made Christmas cards for Rocky Knoll residents.
Learn more:
• Explore the Community Engagement section of our interactive, award-winning District Report Card to learn more about how how community members help our schools and how our students give back to the community.
