Each year Thomas Mifflin School hosts a family style Thanksgiving meal for its approximately 380 students and staff. Volunteers set up and festively adorn upwards of forty tables along the main hallway while members of Mifflin staff prepare and cook a feast, and together, grades K-8 and Mifflin staff gather to reflect, give thanks, and to share a Thanksgiving meal with turkey, heaps of sides, fixings, dessert, and, of course, the merry chaos of a holiday meal.

The foundation of this yearly meal comes courtesy of Ms. Colleen Yarnall, Mifflin’s K-2 Learning Support Teacher, who started this loveliest of Mifflin traditions with her mother in 1993 and it has become a yearly ritual not only to remember her mother by, but it is also, in her words, “a way for the kids to feel welcome and included in developing traditions in school." To foster this sense of community within our school it takes a community to make this yearly meal a success and you can help by making donations of food and/or supplies, volunteering your time, or by making a monetary donation. Thank you from the Friends of Mifflin Thanksgiving Feast Committee!