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Brentwood Borough School District
Brentwood Students & Teachers Participate in Charity Walk!
Thirty-six Brentwood Middle School students, teachers and family members participated in the MS Walk in Downtown Pittsburgh. For the past eleven years, this charity walk has served as one of the group service projects for Brentwood Middle School’ s National Junior Honor Society. Walkers not only raise valuable funds for the Multiple Sclerosis Society but also provide awareness and support for those battling Multiple Sclerosis. This year, our Brentwood team raised more than $ 700 for the MS Society, which is amazing! Middle School teachers Diana Kleinhampl and Lynne Golvash and Elroy teacher Mindy Golvash served as chaperones for this event.
A special thank you to First Student, our bus company, for providing complimentary transportation for the participants that day.
Facility and Instructional Enhancements at Brentwood Middle / High School
The Brentwood Borough School District and the Brentwood Middle School Parents and Teachers for Student Success( PTSS) organization recently collaborated to make both a facilities improvement and an academic enhancement at Brentwood Middle / High School.
In January, the middle school PTSS received a Lowe’ s Toolkit grant for $ 4400 to purchase ceiling fans for the classrooms in the middle / high school building. The grant was written by PTSS President Sharon Sedlar and allowed the district to purchase 72 fans which outfitted 36 classrooms. The fans were installed by Wolfpack Electric who agreed to complete the project on weekends so no classroom instruction was disrupted. As the temperatures have already begun to rise throughout the spring, the students and teachers have enjoyed the relief provided by the fans!
Also this year, through increased fundraising efforts, the PTSS was able to provide a $ 1000 academic grant for the middle school. The grant, which was designed to provide curricular enhancements to a middle school programs, was used to purchase cell phones to house educational applications that are being used in conjunction with virtual reality headsets in the middle school social studies classrooms. Mr. Chris Pierce, an 8th grade American History teacher, was the first to incorporate the virtual reality technology as his class was studying the impact of slavery on the United States prior to the Civil War. By using the VR headsets and the Google Expedition application, the students were able to tour the Whitney plantation in Louisiana, including the slave quarters and a memorial that was later built on the property to honor former slaves.
Thanks to the PTSS for helping Brentwood Middle School continue to find new and exciting ways to engage our students in learning!
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