Ridgefield PTA members are in a generous mood this spring, donating a wide variety of gifts that will improve education both inside and outside, as well as on the Internet.
The Board of Education accepted three gifts, valued just shy of $30,000 total, Monday night.
The first donation was a pair of pergolas, worth $799 each, to Barlow Mountain Elementary School from the Barlow Mountain’s PTA Garden Committee.
The shaded walkways will be built and placed near the school garden to shade the area for outdoor lessons teachers sometimes give during appropriate seasons.
The pergolas will not be cemented into the ground, so they will not be permanent structures which should alleviate the need for a permit.
The second gift was $2,890 given to East Ridge Middle School from its PTA for the purchase of 10 Google Chromebooks.
The third and final gift was a $25,000 donation given to Ridgefield High School from its PTSA to purchase interactive whiteboards, known as SMART Boards, for classroom use.
RHS principal Stacey Gross said that the school has 21 classrooms that don’t currently have SMART Boards installed and that the donation will help the administration afford anywhere from eight to 12 new boards.
She noted that the school currently has SMART Boards in all of its math and science classrooms.