St. Patrick School and Chesterton High School are the recipients of the spring grants awarded by the Duneland Education Foundation.

The four grants, totaling $1,356.49, were announced at Monday’s Duneland School Board meeting.

St. Patrick School received three of the grants. One is for a cultural awareness program that will provide books about other countries, with topics on poverty, hunger and other realities faced by people worldwide. The grant was submitted by teacher Christine Hoover.

Another St. Patrick’s program, also submitted by Hoover, is for a Building a Library program, in which books selected by the Indiana Library Federation as Young Hooiser Books will be purchased for students in kindergarten through fifth grade.

The third St. Patrick’s program to win a foundation grant, submitted by Sue Gore, is for a program called Visual Displays of the Paper Roll. The grant will fund the purchase of colored rolls of paper that will be put to use, particularly for students who are visual learners.

The fourth grant awarded by the foundation is for a CHS program, Romeo and Juliet: A Progressive Play. Submitted by Kirsten Reed, the program will provide freshmen English students with a student workshop on interpreting Shakespeare led by a Valparaiso University theater instructor.

Authentic Renaissance musical and materials will be purchased to create stage props. Students from each freshman English class will perform one scene from Romeo and Juliet for other freshmen classes.

For more information on the foundation, call 983-3715 or foundation@duneland.k12.in.us.2

Posted 4/9/2008