Movin’ and groovin’ for McDonald Elementary

This Friday (October 21), students at McDonald Elementary School will be walking laps around Wallingford Playfield to raise money for the school. The second annual Move-a-Thon is the school’s major fall fundraiser, and they hope to raise $40,000 which will help cover the costs of enrichment programs not funded by the district. This year, the Mariner Moose will be on hand to cheer the little ones on as they make their way around the field.

McDonald Elementary is a neighborhood school that reopened last fall after being closed for 28 years. Its original building, on the corner of 54th and Latona, is undergoing renovations and will be ready for students in fall 2012. Now, the students are sharing space in the Lincoln High School building with Lowell Elementary’s APP students. McDonald Elementary has tripled its enrollment in just one year and has just become an international school, modeling its Japanese and Spanish immersion programs after John Stanford International School. Like all schools in the Seattle Public Schools District, McDonald Elementary’s extracurricular activities are funded by the PTA by holding fundraising events such as the Move-a-Thon, and as a parent of two Seattle Public School kids, I can vouch that very little bit helps.

If you’d like to sponsor a student, you can donate online on the McDonald Elementary PTA website by clicking here. Wallingford businesses, if you’re interested in sponsoring the Move-a-Thon, you can do so by clicking here or emailing Jennifer Sill Reichert at [email protected].