Our group has chosen to work with Boyd Elementary. So far we have been making weekly visits to a community garden with the kindergarten and first grade classes. Through this we have been able to start with our initial project idea, which is to form relationships with the kiddos and becoming a constant in their lives. We have each personally seen progress with the kids in our weekly groups. Our original plan was to work with the school counselor to help give extra support and attention to the kids who need it the most. Once our supervisor is off of maternity leave, we will be able to do this but in the meantime we are creating connections and bonds everywhere we can make an impact! We also recently helped with the book fair, where we helped Boyd make around $1300 in sales, which will turn around to about $650 in Scholastic Bucks to be used to classroom books and resources for the teachers. Other than these activities, we have noticed another need which has been expressed by our advisor Andrea Battaglia, as well as the other members of PTA. Membership to PTA is free at Boyd to encourage parents to join, but many parents still have not even signed up for emails. This leaves families out of the loop regarding what is going on in their child or children's' school. The current PTA members expressed that an increase in membership is desired and could be beneficial to both the school and the students. They have requested our help in recruiting parents to be part of PTA. We have decided that we want to be able to help in as many areas of Boyd as possible, so we will be integrating this task into our weekly responsibilities of visiting and bonding with the kindergarten and first grade students. In the upcoming weeks we will be working with the current PTA to figure out a time to host a PTA recruitment event. We plan to use part of our budget to cover the costs of this event. Hopefully by educating the parents of the importance of staying in the loop with the school's activities we will be able to help increase parent participation as a whole.
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Bethany Bierman, Haley Olsen, Lydia Sharp, and Lauren Plunkett
Working with Boyd Elementary School as our Summit project for the 2017-2018 school year Archives
April 2018
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