Palmetto Bay, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/12/2014 -- Palmer Trinity School students recently teamed up with Teach For America, to help mentor 3rd and 4th grade students at Holmes Elementary in Liberty City, FL. The program encourages local students to spend two Saturdays a month working with younger students who need help improving their reading and writing skills. Each Palmer Trinity Student is teamed up with a "buddy" and twice a month they meet to read a book and write a report about what they read. After the reading exercise, students engage in a fun recreational activity (last Saturday they baked holiday cookies together).

8th grader Noah Pirani was the first PTS student to get involved, and he now has 7 students volunteering two Saturdays a month. "The first day I walked my buddy back to his house and that just really touched close to my heart," said Pirani. "After that I felt I had to keep coming back because this kid needed me and I feel like I've really learned more from him than he has from me." Pirani hopes to begin a club at Palmer Trinity School and team up with TFA to start a program in a new school in need in South Florida.

About Palmer Trinity School
Palmer Trinity School—a coeducational, Episcopal day school—provides a rigorous college preparatory curriculum that integrates knowledge, compassion and social responsibility, an essential goal of the school's mission. Palmer Trinity School serves students from a broad range of socio-economic, ethnic, and religious backgrounds in grades 6-12.

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