Education Fund Donates over $12,000 to Schools

Wine tastings and downtown scavenger hunts have paid off for the students of Westfield.

The Education Fund of Westfield has announced donations totaling $12,923.35. The funds will be used for new classroom supplies. This includes books, sceince material, new technology items and art supplies.

As a part of this project, Lincoln School Early Childhood Learning Center will receive almost $1,100 to create a resource lending library for teachers at the school. Lincoln School serves as a town wide kindegarten program.

The Education Fund is a non-profit dedicated to raising money for the school system. The funds raised by the group are used to provide grants to teachers and purchase supplies for the school system. Most of the supplies purchases supplement those paid for through tax dollars.

Over the past year the Education Fund raised money through a variety of fundraisers including the annual wine tasting and the CSI Westfield scavenger hunt through the downtown business district.

The donations from the Education Fund has received support and thanks from the Board of Education.

"The Westfield Education Fund has been very generous again," BOE President Julia Walker said. "Thank you very much to the Westfield Educatio Fund.

Donations Made by the Education Fund of Westfield

$1,000 for the Tamaques School 5th Grade for Battle of the Books, which is team books for competition.

$1,045 for the Westfield High School Italian program for a wall mounted projector to enhance the Level 4 Italian experience.

$3,300 for the McKinley School 2nd Grade for "Show Me and I'll Understand," which will enhance learning through a multi-sensory approach.

$896.50 for the McKinley School 4th Grader for Virtually Learning About Science, which will provide hands-on science experiments for students

$1,098 fo the Lincoln School Early Childhood Learning Center for Lending Library, which will build a resource lending library for Lincoln teachers.

$1,500 for Westfield High School for the Visiting Poet Series, which will include an in-school assembly, after school workshops and an evening public reading.

$1,428.85 for Westfield High School Journalism 2 for Reporters & Editors, and the purchase of flip cameras and equipment to practice on-camera reporting.

$2,655.00 for McKinley and Franklin Schools for Success Maker software to be used with donated programs.