Fund for Learning Grants $32G for P’ville School Programs
The Pleasantville schools will have some new programs and equipment to start next school year thanks to more than $32,000 in grants that were awarded by the Pleasantville Fund for Learning (PFFL) last Tuesday night.
The grants cover programs at all three district schools and a range of subjects from science to the arts. This year, several local organizations and community members partnered with the PFFL to fundraise, including the Pleasantville Hiawatha Masonic Lodge, the parent organization P-Daddy’s 2020, the Pleasantville Special Education PTA and Chamber of Commerce President William Flooks.
“We are very, very fortunate to have such a wonderful collaborative group between our chamber…our partner organizations and a great group of teachers that put a great deal of energy and thought into how they can have these projects impacting the lives of children, so we’re very grateful,” said Superintendent Mary Fox-Alter.
Two grants were awarded to the Bedford Road School totaling just over $2,600. A $1,157 grant will fund Kindergarten COREPack, a classroom set of backpacks that will contain thematic literature and activities. These will be sent home with students on a rotating basis to help them learn outside the classroom. In addition, $1,500 will go toward a program for second-graders called Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food, where students will learn about the farm-to-table process through programs and materials from Hilltop Hanover Farm in Yorktown.
At the middle school, $9,500 was awarded to establish a MakerSpace that will encourage hands-on projects across various disciplines and will be used in library technology classes. Another $5,300 was given to allow art teachers to coordinate the painting of murals by students at the school. There will be $1,530 going toward a new bass drum and music stands for the middle school band and $140 will fund new orchestra software for the school’s music classroom.
At the high school, $6,000 was awarded to help buy a 3-D printer to be used in science, math and art classes while $888 was granted to allow for the incorporation of student-generated science models in the classroom. Lastly, $6,000 will be used for the creation of a School Store, which will be run by members of the student body.
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