Grants Awarded
2011
- ARMS Multicultural Festival - world music and student generated art, entertainment, and food highlighting the diversity and similarity of the human experience
- Nature Buddies - a collaboration of first graders and seniors to visit local farms and protected lands
- Family Art Night and Community Quilt Project - materials and instruction for a hands-on project where students, parents, and siblings cooperate and get creative
- Author visits - readings of original material and talks for students about writing, illustrating and publishing from nationally known authors Julie Berry, Jarrett Krosockzka and John Hodgen
- Dance - weekly classes for the whole elementary school culminating in a performance for the community
- Dramatics - the middle school received funds to accrue set and costume pieces, the high school funding for its musical and Pleasant St. was awarded funds to attend The Wiz at the Mount.
- Outdoor Club - Eight weeks of elementary after-school nature adventures
2010
- Putting the music in the high school musical - funding for local musicians to perform as the pit band in Bye Bye Birdie
- David Polanski, children's musician - teaches rhythm and dance to the under ten set
- Snow Shoe Adventures - a class set of snow shoes to be used in gym class and for an after-school club
- Tom Riccardi, bird rehabilitator - brings owls and raptors for an all school presentation on a May afternoon. It promises to be a hoot.
- Magic in Music - a 3rd and 4th grade choir travels to the senior center and other elementary school to put on a show
- Multicultural Festival - student generated art, entertainment, and food highlighting the diversity and similarity of the human experience
- Nature Buddies - a collaboration of first graders and seniors to visit local farms and protected lands
- Family Clay Night and Family Painting Night - materials and instruction for a hands-on night where students, parents, and siblings cooperate and get creative
- Folk Dance Around the World - Community presentations and classroom lessons with the acclaimed Mladost Folk Ensemble
- Nature Club - Six weeks of elementary after-school nature adventures
2009
- Poetry Nights - family workshops to prove that poetry is fun
- Local Author Series – a class set of books and visits by the author to discuss the writing process as well as the books themes of classism and ambition in a struggling mill town
- Nature Club – 8 weeks of after-school nature adventures
- Winter Carnival - a collaboration with the PTO for traditional outdoor fun and hands-on science
- Community Zumba Lessons
- A visit from the Amandla Community Chorus
- A conversation among students and a “Freedom Rider”
- Family Clay Projects
- Unified Arts Presentations – talks geared to middle-schoolers with locals who make their living in the arts
2008
- Ponding Kits - helping students discover aquatic insects and learn about their life cycles
- Author’s Workshop - sharing the process of illustrating a book from start to finish
- Country Line Dancing Club - not only fun but healthy and even educational!
- Unified Arts Presentations - talks from local experts in the arts, carpentry and languages at ARMS
- Unix Computer Demonstration - a night to explore other computer operating systems as way to make computers more affordable in students' homes
- Who Donnit? - Students read a mystery novel and go out in the community to find the clues and solve the crime
- Scrapbooking Club- students explore family history by making a scrapbook after school
2007
- Black Stallion Literacy Project – a class set of books and a class visit by a horse.
- Lost Boys of the Sudan - a talk by a recent immigrant who had a hard journey to arrive in Massachusetts
- Musical Puppet Production
- ARMS Multicultural Festival
2006
- Family Math Night for K-5 students
- Let’s Go Geocaching!
- Partners in Reading - a family literacy program
- Exploration of the Quabbin – using the novel Someday and J. R. Greene’s Historic Quabbin Hikes
- Limnology Project - using outdoor classrooms to assess the health of the Millers River and its watershed
- Castle Island Revolutionary Tour
- School Mobiles
- ARMS Multicultural Festival
2005
- North Quabbin’s Natural Treasures – a partnership with senior citizens and community organizations, seven years and still going strong
- School Mobiles – quality hands-on educational materials to take home
- Family Nights - helping to establish a positive relationship between parents, children and schools, while presenting ways for parents to find educational opportunities in everyday activities
- Pioneer Living Experience - a traveling hands-on museum
- A real-life “Mother Goose”
- Who Needs Math Anyway? – field trips to local businesses to learn how math is used
- Royalston Roamers – exploring and photographing Royalston’s natural environment
- Una Mirada de la Cultura – sharing the Latin culture of Argentina
- Exploring the environment of vernal pools
- Raptors of New England – for Special Education science classes at AHS
- ARMS Multicultural Festival
- Story Time – volunteer readers on AOTV
- Chess Club - 30 kids learn moves and strategies
Early grants
- Living History Walk – costumed high school students work together with Athol Historical Society to explain the significance of some of the most important historical sites in Athol
- Sandy Waters Nature Trail – RCS students plan, build and create interpretive signs for new school trail
- Literacy Workshops – What can parents do at home to further student success in school?
