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Kindergarten Boys in the Giving Spirit Donate $250 to CHOP

SCH Academy students make and sell bracelets to donate money to charity of their choice

On Monday, December 16, Kindergarten boys from SCH Academy presented Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia with a $250 check from money they raised selling woven jewelry. There to accept the money were two doctors from CHOP, Julie Moldenhauer, MD and Natalie Rintoul, MD.  The students made the jewelry, sold the jewelry, and decided who should receive the money.

The boys planned to use the popular Rainbow Looms, but when they discovered the looms were too expensive, they came up with a more cost efficient way to create the bracelets: a clothes pin.

Before making the jewelry, the Kindergartners had the foresight to ask the SCH Academy fifth-grade girls to work with them to figure out which bracelets would sell the best. The girls used a school-wide survey to find out which bracelet patterns and colors would be the most popular to sell.

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They sold necklaces, bracelets, and rings for one dollar each at SCH Academy’s Homecoming Fair on October 25 and turned a profit of $250 to donate to a charity of their choice. Following a class discussion, the boys chose the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at CHOP. The money raised will be used for baby supplies, books, blankets, and formula.

This project was completed in coordination with SCH Academy’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL), whose curriculum instills an entrepreneurial mindset and skill set in students and where passion and great ideas are cultivated and nurtured.

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“I was very proud of the boys because they truly embraced the CEL spirit,” said SCH Academy Kindergarten teacher Ellen Funchion. “When the boys discovered that the looms were too expensive they put their heads together and decided to use a simple, everyday clothes pin which worked beautifully.  They showed great perseverance.”

SCH Academy is an independent school offering a rigorous college preparatory program that goes beyond the expected to deliver an unparalleled academic experience.  The school’s unique model is distinguished by single-sex education for the lower grades (Pre-K through 8) followed by a coed Upper School.  In 2012, SCH Academy established the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) to complement its core curriculum and give students the skills and mindset to distinguish themselves as leaders, breakthrough thinkers, and imaginative problem solvers.  The school is situated on a 62-acre campus in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia and serves 1,100 boys and girls from more than 90 zip codes and internationally.  SCH Academy is the product of the 2010 merger between Springside School and Chestnut Hill Academy and combines nearly 300 years of academic excellence.

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