Parents' Guild Wish List 2017-2018
The Remaining Parents’ Guild Funds did not cover the entire list of proposed items. If your family or business would like to sponsor any of the unfunded items on our wish list or have questions, please contact us at: episcopalpgpresidents@gmail.com
Water Fountain for PreK/K Playground-$3,000 -- Funded
The Pre-K and Kindergarten playground does not have a water fountain that is easily accessible for students to use. Students bring water bottles from home, but they forget them or need to be refilled.This would provide a water fountain that is easily accessible on the playground.
Itemized List of Expenses
Water Fountain $2,200
Installation Cost $800
Episcopal Community Read Knight for 3rd & 6th-$6,500 -- Funded
Community Read Knight would provide 3rd and 6th grade students with the opportunity to participate in an engaging community read with their classmates and families, and then attend an author book club event to celebrate reading. Selections would be made for a 3rd grade and a 6th grade title. Students would be encouraged to read with their family, who then would be invited to attend Community Read Knight, which would include a celebration of reading, book club style discussion, and an author-speaking event.
Itemized List of Expenses:
Middle School Book Selection $700
Middle School Author Fee and Travel Expense $3,000
Lower School Book Selection $400
Lower School Author Fee and Travel Expense $2,000
Invitation to event and postage $150
Refreshments for event $250
Bean Bag Chairs for 5th Grade Language Arts Classroom-$310 -- Funded
Two Lands End beanbag chairs to supplement the one in the classroom. Students love an alternative place to sit and read or work.
Itemized List of Expenses:
(2) Regular solid bean bag covers $139.90
(2) Regular bean bag inserts $139.90
Tax $28.00
Language Arts Lab 4th Grade-$2,000 -- Funded
Augment and refurbish the alternative seating already in the 4th grade language arts room. Research has proven that if we can allow students to learn and work in a manner that is natural to them, then they are better able to achieve greater things and be more successful in school. The benefits have been seen firsthand in this classroom over the past two years with previously funded alternative seating.
Itemized list of Expenses:
Knights tent $200
Love Seat $230
Floor Cushions $300
Pouf Bean Bags and filler: $596
Back rests $100
Rugs $530
Alternative Seating for 1st Grade-$1,270 -- Funded
Alternative seating will provide all students with an education that fits their individual learning styles. No two students learn the same and the alternative seating will give students an environment that will allow them the best chance to be successful.
Itemized List of Expenses:
(8) KAPLAN: HOKKI stool $903.60
(2) Big Joe Bean Bag Chairs $139.98
(4 )Plastic Stacking Stools- set of 5 $220.32
I Like Me for PreK-4-$740 -- Funded
Early childhood providers are called upon to do many difficult tasks. One of the most difficult of these is providing our children with diverse, multicultural experiences. For children to develop a sense of belonging they must see themselves, their families, and their communities represented throughout the school in books, posters, artwork, family sets, dolls, cooking utensils, photographs, etc.
Itemized List of Expenses:
Constructive Playthings Basket of babies, Hospital, Multi-ethnic Career, and Chanukah Play Sets (4 sets): $250
Discount School Supply Pretend Play Figures- set of 28, Multi-Cultural Families - set of 32, Career Figures - set of 6: $170
(3) Discount School Supply Multicultural Chubby $24
Markers- set of 35 (2) Discount School Supply Colors like me washable multicultural paint- set of 8 $56
(10) Discount School Supply World Colors Multicultural Paper $28
Amazon Lego Education Community People Set and World People Set for Exploring Family Dynamics: $110
Tax and shipping $100.00
Dig In-$900 -- Funded
There are four raised garden beds between the lower school and Foster Hall that teachers consistently request to use. Unfortunately, although they are in a great location, they are not currently functional. The greatest need is for 3 cubic yards of soil to refill the mostly depleted beds. The existing irrigation will be extended and repaired and a timer will be added. In addition, the creation of a cold frame would allow planting and experimentation in the winter months. This low cost project would have a big impact on several grades and would last for years to come.
Itemized List of Expenses:
Running irrigation lines to the lower school side raised beds $200
Irrigation system heads to replace broken ones on Foster side $55
2 Timers (one for each side) $70
Topsoil $350
Tools (2 small shovels, 3 spades, 3 potato forks) $65
Materials for constructing the cold frame (2”x12” boards, Lexan sheet, and hinges) $160
Equipment for New Class “Film/TV Production”-$1,200 -- Funded
The new class “Film/TV Production” will focus on acting and writing for the screen. Students will learn the basic process for creating short films, including basic screenwriting, video production, basic lighting and sound design and acting for the camera.
Itemized List of Expenses:
DSLR Camera, Lens, Cables: $819
Tripod $49
Light Kit $199
Shipping and Tax $110
Digital Imaging in the Arts Department-$2,220 -- Funded
For several years, the Visual Art Department has enjoyed the use of a large format printer, the HP Design Jet 500. It has allowed our students to keep pace with the tech advances in digital imaging created with cutting edge software. However, the Design Jet 500 is not able to keep up with the demands of the latest software and is no longer compatible with Photoshop. The request is for a new, more efficient printer to meet this need.
Itemized List of Expenses:
Epson SureColor P800 $1,195.00
(9) Ink Cartridges $485.55
Maintenance Tank $19.95
Roll Media Adapter (C12C811431) $199.95
2-Year Preferred Plus Service Plans for extended warranty coverage $319.00
Learniture for 6th Grade Math-$3,280 -- Still Available for Funding
6th Grade Students are active. With a longer class time this upcoming year, some 6th graders will struggle more than others to sit in the desks to work. For those students, wobble stools and bouncy bands will help. The wobble stools allow for students to move around while still remaining seated. Bouncy bands help with those restless legs and feet that like to tap or bounce.
Itemized List of Expenses:
(18) Wobble stools $2,700
Shipping 18 stools $174
(24) bouncy bands $408
Flexible Seating for 7th Grade English-$1,190 -- Still Available for Funding
7th grade has a variety of needs, particularly places for kids to be able to move and shift as they struggle with the growth spurts and hormones. Currently, their only choice is to move to the side/back of the classroom. Student choice is important. Giving students agency to choose will also help build grit, character, and community. The new seating (low tables, couches, yoga mats, wobble cushions and chairs) will allow the classroom to be changed to support the lesson being taught whether group/partner work, whole class instruction, or writing workshop.
Itemized List of Expenses:
(10) Yoga Mats $70
(4) Wobble Chair to sit at tables $296
(4) Wobble Cushion to sit on floor with tray table $56
(5) Laptop Tray Table $80
(2) Small Couch $240
(2) Activity Table $450
Project LIT: A book club that’s FIRE for Middle School-$1,840 -- Funded
ProjectLIT, a middle school book club working to eliminate book deserts and increase access to diverse literature, is off to a great start! Two thirds of the 6th grade class has participated in its inaugural year, and over 30 students have taken on leadership roles in planning book club meetings. The requested funds are to purchase enough books to give access to all three middle school grade levels.
Itemized List of Expenses:
30 copies of 6 book selections for October, November, February, March, and April (180 books total): $1440
(2) book trucks $400
Social Emotional Learning Middle School Grade-Level Summer Workshop-$3,450 -- Still Available for Funding
A Developmental Designs training for Middle School Faculty here at Episcopal this summer. Developmental Designs is a Middle School Social Emotional Learning program, which incorporates the same philosophy and similar strategies as Responsive Classroom, currently utilized in our Lower School. Alicia Kelly and Lucy Smith will offer a three one-day, grade level team workshop focused on healthy school culture and social emotional learning and utilizing the Developmental Designs approach.
Itemized List of Expenses:
Daily stipends of $100 for up to 32 participants $3,200
Lunch on campus for day-long workshops for 32 $200
Workshop supplies $50
Making Future Makers in Classrooms-$4,690 -- Funded
Currently, 4 mbots are being piloted in the Engineering class and it has been a good experience with all the available extensions and supports. It is requested to add mDrawbot, XY-plot, and the ultimate 2.0 10-in-1 Robot Kit from Makeblock. These sets will benefit the high school engineering classes and robotics classes by enhancing hands-on experiences, as well as enhancing physics classes (including AP, Honor and Regular Physics and Physical Science) by visualizing 2D motions in time and space. The mDrawbot and XY-plot could also naturally benefit math and art classes.
Itemized List of Expenses:
(4) Makeblock mDrawbot DIY with Bluetooth Laser Engraver $2,105.12
(4) Makeblock DIY XY-Plotter Version 2.0 Drawing Robot Kit with electronics for Ardunio Fan $879.96
(4) Makeblock the ultimate 2.0 10-in-1 Robot Kit from Makeblock $1,399.96
Arduino-Based Engineering/Project Book Collection $300
VPAC-Black Box Stage Lighting Upgrade-$5,240 -- Still Available for Funding
Over the past 3 years, the stage lighting systems in both performance spaces has been upgraded. Both spaces now have new lighting consoles, and the goal is next to upgrade the stage lights in the black box to an LED system. The new console installed last year has the ability to control the newer fixtures.
Itemized List of Expenses:
(12) ADJ American DJ Mega 64 Profile Plus RGB+UV LED Light $2,399.88
(12) ADJ American DJ Mega Bar RGBA 42-inch LED Light Bar $1,859.88
Data cable, Power Cable, Safety cable, Hardware $500
Tax $466.74
Wireless Microphones-$7,205 -- Still Available for Funding
Last Year, Parents’ Guild provided funds to replace the sound console for the VPAC. Now, there is a need to replace six wireless microphones. This will help to replace broken equipment.
Itemized List of Expenses:
(6) Complete Microphone Set-Transmitter, Receiver, and Element $5,100
Antenna Splinter $600
Expansion Cord for Sound Console $850
Tax $655
Chapel Guitar-$800 -- Funded
The purchase of an acoustic guitar to have in the chapel for use by Father Skully, Mr. Holt, or any student who wants to play music in the chapel. Currently, personal guitars are being brought back and forth. Music is played nearly everyday for school chapel and it would be great to have an instrument that belonged to school.
Itemized List of Expenses:
Taylor 110e $800
Fertroller for Greenhouse-$3,250 -- Still Available for Funding
The CropKing Fertroller enables the grower to automatically control the EC and PH of the hydroponic nutrient solution in recirculating the NFT grow system. With automatic EC and PH control the grower can maintain more consistent solution conditions and prevent potentially damaging variations. This can lead to higher production, better crop quality and more time for other greenhouse duties. The greenhouse was originally equipped to do the mixing of nutrients manually. The task of keeping the nutrient system consistent manually has created the problem of nutrient and PH level fluctuation. The crop has not been as vigorous as a result.
Itemized List of Expenses:
CropKing Fertroller $2,795
Nutrient concentration tanks $300
Shipping $150
Water Fountain for PreK/K Playground-$3,000 -- Funded
The Pre-K and Kindergarten playground does not have a water fountain that is easily accessible for students to use. Students bring water bottles from home, but they forget them or need to be refilled.This would provide a water fountain that is easily accessible on the playground.
Itemized List of Expenses
Water Fountain $2,200
Installation Cost $800
Episcopal Community Read Knight for 3rd & 6th-$6,500 -- Funded
Community Read Knight would provide 3rd and 6th grade students with the opportunity to participate in an engaging community read with their classmates and families, and then attend an author book club event to celebrate reading. Selections would be made for a 3rd grade and a 6th grade title. Students would be encouraged to read with their family, who then would be invited to attend Community Read Knight, which would include a celebration of reading, book club style discussion, and an author-speaking event.
Itemized List of Expenses:
Middle School Book Selection $700
Middle School Author Fee and Travel Expense $3,000
Lower School Book Selection $400
Lower School Author Fee and Travel Expense $2,000
Invitation to event and postage $150
Refreshments for event $250
Bean Bag Chairs for 5th Grade Language Arts Classroom-$310 -- Funded
Two Lands End beanbag chairs to supplement the one in the classroom. Students love an alternative place to sit and read or work.
Itemized List of Expenses:
(2) Regular solid bean bag covers $139.90
(2) Regular bean bag inserts $139.90
Tax $28.00
Language Arts Lab 4th Grade-$2,000 -- Funded
Augment and refurbish the alternative seating already in the 4th grade language arts room. Research has proven that if we can allow students to learn and work in a manner that is natural to them, then they are better able to achieve greater things and be more successful in school. The benefits have been seen firsthand in this classroom over the past two years with previously funded alternative seating.
Itemized list of Expenses:
Knights tent $200
Love Seat $230
Floor Cushions $300
Pouf Bean Bags and filler: $596
Back rests $100
Rugs $530
Alternative Seating for 1st Grade-$1,270 -- Funded
Alternative seating will provide all students with an education that fits their individual learning styles. No two students learn the same and the alternative seating will give students an environment that will allow them the best chance to be successful.
Itemized List of Expenses:
(8) KAPLAN: HOKKI stool $903.60
(2) Big Joe Bean Bag Chairs $139.98
(4 )Plastic Stacking Stools- set of 5 $220.32
I Like Me for PreK-4-$740 -- Funded
Early childhood providers are called upon to do many difficult tasks. One of the most difficult of these is providing our children with diverse, multicultural experiences. For children to develop a sense of belonging they must see themselves, their families, and their communities represented throughout the school in books, posters, artwork, family sets, dolls, cooking utensils, photographs, etc.
Itemized List of Expenses:
Constructive Playthings Basket of babies, Hospital, Multi-ethnic Career, and Chanukah Play Sets (4 sets): $250
Discount School Supply Pretend Play Figures- set of 28, Multi-Cultural Families - set of 32, Career Figures - set of 6: $170
(3) Discount School Supply Multicultural Chubby $24
Markers- set of 35 (2) Discount School Supply Colors like me washable multicultural paint- set of 8 $56
(10) Discount School Supply World Colors Multicultural Paper $28
Amazon Lego Education Community People Set and World People Set for Exploring Family Dynamics: $110
Tax and shipping $100.00
Dig In-$900 -- Funded
There are four raised garden beds between the lower school and Foster Hall that teachers consistently request to use. Unfortunately, although they are in a great location, they are not currently functional. The greatest need is for 3 cubic yards of soil to refill the mostly depleted beds. The existing irrigation will be extended and repaired and a timer will be added. In addition, the creation of a cold frame would allow planting and experimentation in the winter months. This low cost project would have a big impact on several grades and would last for years to come.
Itemized List of Expenses:
Running irrigation lines to the lower school side raised beds $200
Irrigation system heads to replace broken ones on Foster side $55
2 Timers (one for each side) $70
Topsoil $350
Tools (2 small shovels, 3 spades, 3 potato forks) $65
Materials for constructing the cold frame (2”x12” boards, Lexan sheet, and hinges) $160
Equipment for New Class “Film/TV Production”-$1,200 -- Funded
The new class “Film/TV Production” will focus on acting and writing for the screen. Students will learn the basic process for creating short films, including basic screenwriting, video production, basic lighting and sound design and acting for the camera.
Itemized List of Expenses:
DSLR Camera, Lens, Cables: $819
Tripod $49
Light Kit $199
Shipping and Tax $110
Digital Imaging in the Arts Department-$2,220 -- Funded
For several years, the Visual Art Department has enjoyed the use of a large format printer, the HP Design Jet 500. It has allowed our students to keep pace with the tech advances in digital imaging created with cutting edge software. However, the Design Jet 500 is not able to keep up with the demands of the latest software and is no longer compatible with Photoshop. The request is for a new, more efficient printer to meet this need.
Itemized List of Expenses:
Epson SureColor P800 $1,195.00
(9) Ink Cartridges $485.55
Maintenance Tank $19.95
Roll Media Adapter (C12C811431) $199.95
2-Year Preferred Plus Service Plans for extended warranty coverage $319.00
Learniture for 6th Grade Math-$3,280 -- Still Available for Funding
6th Grade Students are active. With a longer class time this upcoming year, some 6th graders will struggle more than others to sit in the desks to work. For those students, wobble stools and bouncy bands will help. The wobble stools allow for students to move around while still remaining seated. Bouncy bands help with those restless legs and feet that like to tap or bounce.
Itemized List of Expenses:
(18) Wobble stools $2,700
Shipping 18 stools $174
(24) bouncy bands $408
Flexible Seating for 7th Grade English-$1,190 -- Still Available for Funding
7th grade has a variety of needs, particularly places for kids to be able to move and shift as they struggle with the growth spurts and hormones. Currently, their only choice is to move to the side/back of the classroom. Student choice is important. Giving students agency to choose will also help build grit, character, and community. The new seating (low tables, couches, yoga mats, wobble cushions and chairs) will allow the classroom to be changed to support the lesson being taught whether group/partner work, whole class instruction, or writing workshop.
Itemized List of Expenses:
(10) Yoga Mats $70
(4) Wobble Chair to sit at tables $296
(4) Wobble Cushion to sit on floor with tray table $56
(5) Laptop Tray Table $80
(2) Small Couch $240
(2) Activity Table $450
Project LIT: A book club that’s FIRE for Middle School-$1,840 -- Funded
ProjectLIT, a middle school book club working to eliminate book deserts and increase access to diverse literature, is off to a great start! Two thirds of the 6th grade class has participated in its inaugural year, and over 30 students have taken on leadership roles in planning book club meetings. The requested funds are to purchase enough books to give access to all three middle school grade levels.
Itemized List of Expenses:
30 copies of 6 book selections for October, November, February, March, and April (180 books total): $1440
(2) book trucks $400
Social Emotional Learning Middle School Grade-Level Summer Workshop-$3,450 -- Still Available for Funding
A Developmental Designs training for Middle School Faculty here at Episcopal this summer. Developmental Designs is a Middle School Social Emotional Learning program, which incorporates the same philosophy and similar strategies as Responsive Classroom, currently utilized in our Lower School. Alicia Kelly and Lucy Smith will offer a three one-day, grade level team workshop focused on healthy school culture and social emotional learning and utilizing the Developmental Designs approach.
Itemized List of Expenses:
Daily stipends of $100 for up to 32 participants $3,200
Lunch on campus for day-long workshops for 32 $200
Workshop supplies $50
Making Future Makers in Classrooms-$4,690 -- Funded
Currently, 4 mbots are being piloted in the Engineering class and it has been a good experience with all the available extensions and supports. It is requested to add mDrawbot, XY-plot, and the ultimate 2.0 10-in-1 Robot Kit from Makeblock. These sets will benefit the high school engineering classes and robotics classes by enhancing hands-on experiences, as well as enhancing physics classes (including AP, Honor and Regular Physics and Physical Science) by visualizing 2D motions in time and space. The mDrawbot and XY-plot could also naturally benefit math and art classes.
Itemized List of Expenses:
(4) Makeblock mDrawbot DIY with Bluetooth Laser Engraver $2,105.12
(4) Makeblock DIY XY-Plotter Version 2.0 Drawing Robot Kit with electronics for Ardunio Fan $879.96
(4) Makeblock the ultimate 2.0 10-in-1 Robot Kit from Makeblock $1,399.96
Arduino-Based Engineering/Project Book Collection $300
VPAC-Black Box Stage Lighting Upgrade-$5,240 -- Still Available for Funding
Over the past 3 years, the stage lighting systems in both performance spaces has been upgraded. Both spaces now have new lighting consoles, and the goal is next to upgrade the stage lights in the black box to an LED system. The new console installed last year has the ability to control the newer fixtures.
Itemized List of Expenses:
(12) ADJ American DJ Mega 64 Profile Plus RGB+UV LED Light $2,399.88
(12) ADJ American DJ Mega Bar RGBA 42-inch LED Light Bar $1,859.88
Data cable, Power Cable, Safety cable, Hardware $500
Tax $466.74
Wireless Microphones-$7,205 -- Still Available for Funding
Last Year, Parents’ Guild provided funds to replace the sound console for the VPAC. Now, there is a need to replace six wireless microphones. This will help to replace broken equipment.
Itemized List of Expenses:
(6) Complete Microphone Set-Transmitter, Receiver, and Element $5,100
Antenna Splinter $600
Expansion Cord for Sound Console $850
Tax $655
Chapel Guitar-$800 -- Funded
The purchase of an acoustic guitar to have in the chapel for use by Father Skully, Mr. Holt, or any student who wants to play music in the chapel. Currently, personal guitars are being brought back and forth. Music is played nearly everyday for school chapel and it would be great to have an instrument that belonged to school.
Itemized List of Expenses:
Taylor 110e $800
Fertroller for Greenhouse-$3,250 -- Still Available for Funding
The CropKing Fertroller enables the grower to automatically control the EC and PH of the hydroponic nutrient solution in recirculating the NFT grow system. With automatic EC and PH control the grower can maintain more consistent solution conditions and prevent potentially damaging variations. This can lead to higher production, better crop quality and more time for other greenhouse duties. The greenhouse was originally equipped to do the mixing of nutrients manually. The task of keeping the nutrient system consistent manually has created the problem of nutrient and PH level fluctuation. The crop has not been as vigorous as a result.
Itemized List of Expenses:
CropKing Fertroller $2,795
Nutrient concentration tanks $300
Shipping $150