Volunteer mentors from Big Brothers Big Sisters’ High School Bigs’ program at University School of Nashville spend time weekly with elementary students from Carter Lawrence Elementary and Robert Churchwell Museum Magnet Elementary all year long. They work on assignments together, eat lunch, play games – and talk about each other’s school day and interactions with peers and teachers.
This positive time together is priceless for both the high school student developing traits and habits for their adult lives and the elementary school student who has a friend they can talk to about social interactions, academic subjects where they are struggling, and increase their self-confidence and ambitions for their own futures.
During one of these visits, a group of these students decided they wanted to create a project together that could support the mentoring program that helped create the friendships they find so valuable. The younger students took pen to paper and created illustrations about their favorite aspects of each month, and the older students helped put the structure in place to create a 2012 calendar that the high school students would sell to friends and family for a small fund-raising effort.
Calendars are available while supplies last through Big Brothers Big Sisters website, www.mentorakid.org or www.bbbscalendar.kintera.org for $10 each, or you may call (615) 329-9191 for more information.