Thursday, December 2, 2010

WEF Grants Announced

I am so pleased to announce the Woodville teachers who were awarded Wakefield Educational Foundation (WEF) grants.
• Two of our Physical Education teachers, Mr. Feldman and Ms. Edson, were awarded a grant for lacrosse, which covered going to a conference and participating in a lacrosse workshop. They were also awarded money to buy lacrosse equipment to be shared throughout the district.
• Miss Christine in our PreSchool Program was awarded a grant for Boardmaker Version 6 for Windows which will aid in student communication.
• Mrs. Hughes, our technology teacher was awarded a grant to purchase Stop Motion Animation Software & Webcams. It will be utilized by Mrs. Hughes and Mr. Marino, one of our Art teachers for our 4th Graders. We will have some fun videos made by them before they are "Moving On".
• Mrs. Hughes, who also wears the hat as Cultural Arts chair for our PTO was awarded a grant that will fund our January 27th shows entitled "Bach to Rock" by Caryn Lin the Electric Violinist.
There were other staff members that submitted grant requests but due to the overwhelming number of submissions, they were unable to be funded. I would like to thank all those who submitted grants for their hard work on behalf of our Woodville students!