2023-2024 Grants Awarded

1. $50 to the ML Dept. to provide a snack for ML students who have difficulty accessing food in the cafe.
2. $130 to Ms. Arbour’s 5th grade class for STEM notebooks.
3. $33.68 to the 7th grade classes for a much needed popsicle break.
4. $505 to the Music Department to help hire 8 MS band directors to facilitate the increased number of students at instrument pickup day mini lessons.
5. $49.95 to the CEMS Chess Club to purchase additional chess boards, and to support teachers implementing chess into their unstructured times to promote forward thinking, a move away from screens, and an opportunity to engage in dialogue.
6. $116.63 to the 6th grade for supplies on their Gull Crest hike.
7. $533.58 to Mr. Bellanger for for pickleball supplies to be used over the course of late spring into this fall.
8. $400 to the Volunteer Coordinator/CEMS Social Work team for arts & crafts storage and a year end ice cream sundae mentor celebration
9. $250 to the Special Education team to to purchase a variety of games and puzzles for classrooms which will be used to build executive functioning skills such as planning/forward thinking, prioritizing and self-control.
10. $40 to Mr. Croft to purchase appropriate reading level books for his classroom.
11. $75.00 for Mrs. Moniz’s class to purchase materials for science lab activities.
12. $40 to World Languages for supplies to participate in the Journey North’s Symbolic Migration project.
13. $60 to Ms. Kaufman’s 7th grade Science class to purchase several sets of a magnetic game for the study of magnetic and electrical forces
14. $178.50 to the Counseling and Tech departments to purchase 10 books to use in a district wide study on Parenting in the Screen Age
15. $500 to the 7th grade Fileo/Moniz team to purchase tickets to “Christmas Carol” at Portland Stage as part of the language arts curriculum
16. $60 to the CEMS Debate Team for snacks and water for the participants of 3 visiting schools of a Debate Tournament that Cape hosted
17. $50 to the OT/SEL departments of beading supplies for indoor recess and the mentor program
18. $46.70 to Ms. Ellis to refresh her classroom standing table, which is a favorite work spot for her students and has taken a beating
19. $600 to the World Language team to purchase appropriately leveled books for each classroom which were not covered by the school budget
20. $260 to the Counseling department for a year’s worth of snacks, tea bags, and gum for students. Because of our challenging lunch scheduling our students are often too hungry to concentrate on their lessons, our counselors have been paying out of pocket for small, healthy snacks to tide them over. The gum is a great tool for our ADHD students to help with concentration. The teas help to make students visiting Counseling to feel calm and comfortable.
21. $125 to the Music Department to bring a guest artist to work as an artist-in-residence with the 8-12 jazz students.
22. $203.25 to Mr. Bellanger for 21 Ping Pong Paddles (with a few balls thrown in) and 2 pairs of sneakers.
23. $100 to Haley Malm for Fish Tank Supplies
24. $509.97 to Adam Kilip for Electronic weather stations
25.  $600 to the 7th Grade Team’s Grant for 7th Grade Explorations
26. $30 to Laurel Ruel for Kinetic Sand
27. $200 to Aaron Filieo for Reading Challenge Pizza Party
28. $150 to Sarah Jordan for Jiu Jitsu instructors
29. $250 to Ms. Aspinwall for funds used to purchase prizes for students with high-scoring brackets in the international French “Manie Musicale de Mars” competition.

2022-2023 Grants Awarded

1. $1400 to send the entire 6th grade to a Sea Dogs game to support their unit on fractions, decimals, & percentages in a real world setting
2. $140 to bring Antonio Rocha to CEMS for a performance (and purchase his CD) of Malaga Slave Ship for the entire 8th grade to enable students to better connect with both history and our increasingly diverse Portland community
3. $472 for mini lessons for our 80+ incoming 5th grade band students 
4. $225 for a Pizza Party reward for extraordinary efforts in the American Heart Association fundraiser for a 5th and a 6th grade homeroom  
5. $122 to purchase chess boards for CEMS
6. $1000 to bring Primo Cubano to CEMS to teach all 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students about salsa dancing and Cuban music to support the goal of Global Competency
7. $220 for the Civil Rights Team/Rainbow Lunch Club Retreat, which covered lunch and leadership training from the Holocaust & Human Rights Center and the Maine Youth Action Network for approx. 40 students
8. $262 for flexible classroom seating 
9. Up to $115 for a Pizza Party to celebrate the accomplishments of 7th/8th Honors Band & Chorus students
10. $200 for a subscription to IXL for Mr Whaley’s 5th grade Social Studies cohort 
11. $148 for a button maker and buttons. The short term project is to create gifts for the Civil Rights Team for their year of hard work. Long term is will be made available to the school for future projects that could be used by all: student council, mindfulness ambassadors, class projects, student achievement recognition, etc.
12. $400 in small grants to teachers for various requests (class incentive trips, pizza parties, etc)
13. $35 for a cake & plates for the Rainbow Lunch Club Pride celebration.