No Tardy Party

When Jane's Fund begins a relationship with a school, the initial goal is to listen to the leadership. Every school we partner with is struggling with parent engagement, teacher burnout, and low attendance rates. We've learned if we can ease basic financial burdens and help create a school environment where attendance, academic success, and good behavior is rewarded, students show up and teachers get fired up. High attendance leads to healthy, growing kids and higher graduation rates. 
 
Whether it's providing a new soccer field, musical instruments, a fieldtrip to DC, or a math night for students and parents, you can feel the energy and impact Jane's Fund can create in a school from one of our newer partners this year:

Good afternoon, Jane’s Fund! 

We have had a lot going on at Pinewood thanks to your help! 

Our attendance initiatives are in full swing. Our students LOVE to spin the wheel when their class finishes the attendance challenge. So far, classes have won pajama days, pizza parties, a karaoke party, extra recess, popsicle parties, and a picnic with the mascot! We have a healthy competition growing between the classes. 

We had our No Tardy Party in the middle of February and we got to celebrate our students who have arrived on time every day for the second quarter. We were able to celebrate so many students for good attendance habits. 

All of these are initiatives we would not have been able to do without your help.
 
We are so appreciative of you all partnering with us to create these initiatives this school year!

Thank you,

Sarah
Family Advocate, Pinewood Elementary School

 Many students miss the bus or sleep in when parents in the home leave early for work or do not wake up with their children...but what student wouldn't get out of bed and make it to the bus if there's a "NO TARDY PARTY" reward for showing up on time every day?

Sponsor a No Tardy Party:  $450
Field Trip to DC: $28,000
New Instruments for Music Program: $8,000