April 3rd, 2013
Each year, the Waterloo Education Foundation Inc (WEFI), distributes funds for Special Projects submitted by our schools. These funds come from our staff through payroll deductions, bank interest and the net proceeds from the annual WEFI charity golf tournament.
This year, all 50 submissions received funding totalling $25,000.
| School | Amount | Proposal/Request |
| AR Kaufman | 500.00 | To extend resources for outdoor physical activity by adding painted line games to the tarmac, installing a multi-basket post for basketball games and purchasing suitable outdoor throwing equipment. |
| Ayr | 500.00 | To have Big Kid Entertainment come to perform Rapunzel which has an anti-bullying message. |
| Blair Road | 500.00 | To purchase more home reading materials, particularly lower-level texts for earlier readers. |
| Breslau | 500.00 | To purchase Math manipulatives such as clocks, blocks and calculators. |
| Cedarbrae | 500.00 | To purchase headphones for the computer lab. |
| Centennial (C) | 500.00 | To purchase books to add to the Home Reading Program library. |
| Coronation | 500.00 | To subsidize $50.00 per student to attend a three-day Earthkeeper’s Camp. |
| Country Hills | 500.00 | To purchase a document camera. |
| Courtland Ave | 500.00 | To subsidize students to attend the graduating Grade Eight year-end trip to Camp Wabanaki. |
| Crestview | 500.00 | To purchase a document camera. |
| Doon | 500.00 | To subsidize the cost of the Grade Eight Tim Horton’s Student Leadership Camp experience. |
| Driftwood Park | 500.00 | To have Christine Watson teach a Hip Hop dance program. |
| Edna Staebler | 500.00 | To provide specific resources to support differentiated programming for English Language Learners specifically obtaining PM Plus levelled books published by Nelson Thomson Learning. |
| Elgin Street | 500.00 | To purchase a safe play structure (Little Tikes Double Decker Super Slide) for the Kindergarten recess/play area. |
| Elizabeth Ziegler | 500.00 | To purchase levelled text written in French to support the French Immersion Program. |
| Floradale | 500.00 | To purchase a laptop for students with individual education plans to improve their ability to communicate their thinking in writing. |
| Forest Glen | 500.00 | To provide financial assistance where required for students to attend curriculum related class trips. |
| Grandview (NH) | 500.00 | To purchase a co-writer, dragon naturally speaking, and other computer-based programs for use in the classroom. |
| Hillcrest | 500.00 | To purchase a data projector towards the goal of one per classroom. |
| Howard Robertson | 500.00 | To set up a fund to help support needy families with school trips, winter clothing, glasses, physical tests, school supplies, etc. |
| JW Gerth | 500.00 | To enhance the cooking program. |
| King Edward | 500.00 | To purchase a variety of high-interest texts. |
| Laurelwood | 500.00 | To purchase an iPad2 16G, Stylus pen and an iTunes card. |
| Lexington | 500.00 | To purchase a document camera. |
| Lincoln Heights | 500.00 | To purchase gym uniforms, student planners and locks for lockers for student in financial need. |
| Linwood | 500.00 | To financially support the Low German-speaking students to attend ESL camp and other school trips. |
| MacGregor | 500.00 | To purchase Grand River Transit tickets for needy students and families. |
| Mackenzie King | 500.00 | To subsidize the cost of student planners and one school trip a year for all students. |
| Prueter | 500.00 | To purchase a third iPad so each Kindergarten class has one. |
| Queen Elizabeth | 500.00 | To purchase a document camera. |
| Riverside | 500.00 | To subsidize the costs of attending the Big Kid Production of Cinderella’s Fog Prince. |
| Rosemount | 500.00 | To put on a spring activity day with a barbecue and bring in Eric Traplin, a local children’s musician. |
| Ryerson | 500.00 | To purchase additional texts for the ELL library. |
| Smithson | 500.00 | To purchase country flags to display permanently in the school gym. |
| Southridge | 500.00 | To support students in having pizza on Pizza Day and class field trips. |
| St Jacobs | 500.00 | To start an Audible Book collection. |
| Stanley Park | 500.00 | To subsidize a student to attend the Grade Eight Quebec trip. |
| Sunnyside | 500.00 | To purchase outdoor sports equipment, particularly soccer nets. |
| Three Bridges | 500.00 | To purchase more books for the Home Reading Program. |
| Wellesley | 500.00 | To create photographic books for the young David Martin Mennonites which are relevant and engaging. |
| Westmount | 500.00 | To purchase additional dual language home reading books and educational learning kits |
| Winston Churchill | 500.00 | To bring Scientists In School into classrooms to deliver hands-on curriculum. |
| Woodland Park | 500.00 | To purchase two to three iPads for use by students in the Developmental Education Class. |
| Forest Heights CI | 500.00 | To purchase materials to start a Scrapbook Club. |
| Galt CI | 500.00 | To help needy families pay for school expenses such as course enhancement fees, field trips, student cards and extra-curricular fees. |
| Glenview Park CI | 500.00 | To support students who cannot afford to pay for school expenses such as course enhancement fees, field trips and student cards. |
| Grand River CI | 500.00 | To purchase more tablets for the Mobile Computer Lab. |
| Sir John A Macdonald SS | 500.00 | To assist students with extra-curricular activities costs. |
| Waterloo-Oxford DSS | 500.00 | To assist co-op students requiring transportation to their job placements with taxi fares. |
| Pinegrove Program | 500.00 | To purchase a Lenovo Laptop. |
