I saw this in the Yardley News.
Morrisville School District provides fun outside the classroom, during the summer with Community Learning Centers
Funding for the program is provided by the federal government through Pennsylvania Department of Education. The program has experienced a busy summer of programs that included academic enrichment, community service, music and sports.
Our Academic Sports Achievement Program (ASAP) Summer Camp ran for five weeks. The camp, aimed for students entering second grade to twelfth grade, was divided into an elementary, middle and senior camp groups. The campers participated in an academic portion (English and math) and a sports portion of their choice. Sports included basketball, softball, kickball, soccer, flag football and volleyball. The campers all went on trips once a week. These trips included bowling, movies, and an amusement park.
Reading Enrichment was another successful program. It assisted struggling students with their summer reading material. The students went on trips to the Franklin Institute and the Philadelphia Museum of Art to bring to life the books they were reading.
Ninth-and-tenth-grade students from Morrisville High School participated in a "Seed to Fork Experience" at Snipes Farm. The students experienced what it is like to run a farm and learned how to grow their own food, plant seeds, tend crops and harvest fruits and vegetables. Getting to cook and eat some of the foods they sowed as well, the students cared for and tended to farm animals while at the farm (chickens, turkeys, pigs and horses).
The Morrisville Middle/Senior High School Environmental Club had a unique opportunity through the program and Wheelabrator Falls (a Waste Management company). Students assisted Wheelabrator in working toward a certification as a wildlife preserve by planting a butterfly garden and getting it certified as a Monarch Way station, assembling a compost bin, tagging both native and non-native species of trees, removing invasive plants, and building birdhouses.
MSD 21st CCLC sponsored nine Morrisville Borough students in tenth-and-eleventh-grade to participate in the Lower Bucks County Chamber of Commerce (LBCCC) Youth Leadership Program. The program runs for four days and includes individual, group and community activities, personal growth, development of professional skill sets. Students visit locals businesses where they learn leadership styles and networking.
Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week (PFEW) is a program that immerses students in the world of business. Through the Morrisville School District program, four borough seniors were coached on business ethics, finance and banking, international trade, marketing and advertising and labor issues. The students are put into teams that present two comprehensive oral presentations – one an actual “annual meeting” before imaginary stockholders, and a second “marketing/advertising presentation” complete with television, radio, print and website design.
The Century Community Learning Centers shipped students in sixth through twelfth grade into a performing arts camp through Downstage Center and Actors Net. They learned about musical theater, puppetry, television commercials, bucket drumming twirling and circus arts. The students also studied dance and acting. At the conclusion of "Summer Stars," a full length original production was put on which was a quartet of mini-musicals: Memphis Mayhem, Beach Bash, Jane Blond, and Talk Show.
Students also participated in a musical theater program through Acting Naturally building self confidence, learning stage presence, and concluding with Disney children’s shows, Aladdin, Alice in Wonderland and The Jungle Book.
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It's a good thing this kind of nonsense isn't grabbing attention on the district's website. It would draw attention away from Bill Hellmann C.P.A.'s all important "report on the district" that's been up there for months.
wouldnt that be a PR job duty? lets hope some of that money will go to a student activity and not be wasted anymore
Perhaps a basketball court?
The at-this-point conceptual fence by the Grandview flagpole that according to Marlys, she and unnamed others are allegedly "pushing for"?
Listen in on the Aug. 17, 2011 Agenda Meeting starting at around 10:50:
http://www.mv.org/videos.cfm
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