Our fliers explaining science camp, in English and en Español
Want to learn even more about our drive to raise money for science camp? Click on the images below (the first is in English, the second, Spanish) and read our flier!
Want to learn even more about our drive to raise money for science camp? Click on the images below (the first is in English, the second, Spanish) and read our flier!
A HUGE thanks to everyone who has donated to help pay for a 5th grader to go to science camp! Thanks to people like you, we are 70% of the way to our goal of raising $5000 by May 24th. Seventy percent! This is great.
Thanks to Synopsys, who donated as well. They’re a wonderful community partner!
You can make a difference by donating today! Some Sunnyvale schools are still raising money to send their students to science camp, even though they’ve already attended. Your $100 donation could become $300 – $100 from you, $100 from SEF, and, if your employer does corporate matching, $100 from them! Every dollar you donate now will free another dollar for other school needs, like classroom supplies and teacher training.
You can donate by clicking the button below or by sending a check to:
Sunnyvale Education Foundation
816 W Iowa Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Thank you for your generous support. We couldn’t do this without you!
Are you interested in learning how other school communities communicate? Are you responsible for a newsletter on your child’s campus? How does your school get information out to its parents: email? Paper fliers? Facebook? Join us at the next roundtable meeting to discuss how different schools communicate with their communities. Kate Degelau-Pierce, the SEF communications VP and SMS newsletter editor, will facilitate the discussion. We would appreciate it if everyone could invite the individuals responsible for the parent/teacher newsletters and online presence at your school and be prepared to share information on best practices.
Did you know…
It’s true! A donation of $300 would pay for one student’s full science camp tuition, but anything, even $10, will help. Thank you for your support!
One of the mini-grants from last year was for microscopes at Fairwood Elementary School. These are lovely little additions to their science program, allowing the students to see and learn about really small things (like leaf cells)!
Donate to the Sunnyvale Education Foundation to make more like this possible!
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So if you’ve been putting off buying a new pair of jeans, or want the latest bestseller, or just need to get a bunch of stuff for the house, head over to Amazon today and we’ll both be better off.
Thanks for your support!
Sunnyvale Middle School bought new art books!
This is a great set of books that get used mainly (but not only) in the 6th grade Fundamentals in Art class.
What a great way to learn more about history and culture! We’re so happy we were able to help SMS buy these.
You may remember us advertising free TB tests in October at Vargas and Lakewood. As you know, having a valid TB test is a requirement of being a parent volunteer at SSD schools, so this is often a barrier to getting people to help out at their students’ schools. So, you may be thinking, how’d those go?
Well… we facilitated 68 TB tests, 49 skin tests and 19 blood tests. (Blood tests are necessary for people who have been inoculated.) Parents and other potential volunteers from all 10 SSD schools were tested, most people from Vargas and Lakewood Elementary Schools, which is where the tests were given. This is great! We were anticipating about 30 people per day of testing (there were 2), so we’re happy to have made this impact.
There were many lessons learned (that we’ll use to smooth out future testing days), but the biggest one was how few people knew that there was a risk assessment worksheet they can have their doctor fill out to avoid taking a TB test at all! (I think this is the form; do check with your school to confirm.) Many of the school offices have these forms. This is definitely the easier option!
Hopefully we’ll be able to offer this again next year. If we do, we’ll do it at different schools. Your donation would help ensure that we can offer these tests again! Thanks for your support.
We are super-proud to be offering free TB testing to SSD volunteers at both Vargas and Lakewood Elementary schools in the next couple of weeks. Please check out the flyer for all the relevant details!
As part of the grants to the schools last spring, Lakewood Elementary used part of its money to buy food for a dinner for neighborhood parents. The goal of that dinner? To introduce parents to the school and its strong community.
It helped keep the kids entertained, and it looks healthy to boot!
I know at least one neighborhood family was wowed by the teachers at this event, making the decision to send their child to Lakewood instead of a private school. I’m so happy Sunnyvale Education Foundation could help them!