Tanger Outlets Rehoboth donates $6,000 for grants to local schools
Tanger Outlets in Rehoboth Beach announced five schools in Sussex County will receive a total of $6,000 in TangerKIDS Grants this year. This program awards grant money to schools in the communities where Tanger Outlet Centers are located. Grants awarded will benefit schools for the 2018-19 school year, and funding amounts were announced during special ceremonies at the schools.
Georgetown Kindergarten Center will receive $1,000 to purchase new shoes for kindergarten students who need them. Shoes for both boys and girls in a variety of sizes will be purchased by the school counselor, and then distributed throughout the school year by the school counselor and school nurse as needed.
G.W. Carver Academy will receive $2,450 to provide equine therapy to students through a specialized program designed to teach youth how to take initiative, make decisions and be accountable for the results.
Indian River High School will receive $635 to purchase driver education supplies, including parking cones and other accessories to set up a comprehensive practice course on school property for 10th-, 11th- and 12th-grade students. The supplies have the potential to impact more than 1,000 students at the high school each year, sharpening their driver reaction-time skills and improving their defensive driving skills.
Sussex Central High School will receive $626 for the purchase of 60 subscriptions to Scholastic’s Science World magazine for honors-level ninth-grade students. The school does not have textbooks for science, so the magazines will provide relevant and inspiring supplemental reading. Student projects will grow from articles in which they are particularly interested, and students will learn that careers in science are exciting and attainable.
North Georgetown Elementary School will receive two TangerKIDS Grants. One grant for $500 will be used to purchase books, activity cards and fluency cards for the independent reading levels of ESL third-graders to be used throughout the school day and to take home to read. These reading materials will enable students to increase their reading level, and build background knowledge and vocabulary, which will help them to be more successful in the classroom setting, perform better on required state testing, and develop a love of reading. Another Tanger grant of $675 was awarded to North Georgetown Elementary to purchase vocabulary practice cards, fluency flash cards, comprehension practice cards, and a speak-and-listen recording microphone. These educational materials will reinforce reading fluency, comprehension, speaking, and vocabulary for third-grade students who are English language learners.
“In the age of budget cuts, this wonderful TangerKIDS Grant has enabled us to purchase additional reading materials,” said Jana Hillis, third-grade ELL teacher at North Georgetown Elementary School, who also received funds for the Reading is Fun! program through TangerKIDS Grants last year. “We sincerely thank Tanger Outlets for selecting our school as one of their recipients.”
For every coupon book sold, Tanger gives one dollar to the TangerKIDS Grants program for local schools.
