SDES 
"Building Collaborative Partnerships That Empower Students To Succeed!" SDES SDES Council
2006
SDES Community Connection with Bonneville Elementary School
As part of its mission, the Student Development and Enrollment Services (SDES) Council is reaching out to meet the needs of individuals in UCF’s surrounding community. As part of this effort, SDES adopted the Bonneville Elementary School. On June 9, 2006, Betty Calton and Joanne McCully, SDES Council members and coordinators of the Council's Community Connection program, visited Bonneville Elementary and photographed the school's new construction and demolition of buildings. The school was opened in 1963 serving only a few hundred children. Currently, 900 students attend the school.
In viewing the photos, you will see existing and demolished portables, as well as the new and old playground. The construction is a three-phase comprehensive construction plan which began July 2005. The new two-story structure consists of two computer labs, music/art center labs, classrooms for grades 1-5, classrooms for children with special needs, a cafeteria and offices. Eleven portables will be used through December. In January 2007, Phase Three will begin the building of a new physical education pavilion and attached offices. The goal is to remove all portables between January and March 2007. Completion of construction is anticipated in March 2007. For more information about the school, visit: Bonneville Elementary.
The BackPack Project
(Left to right: SDES: Betty Calton and Joanne McCully; Bonneville Elementary: Kimberly Bias, principal, Sean Maguire, assistant principal and Meg King, guidance counselor)
SDES launched the Bonneville Backpack Project in July 2006. School items and monetary donations were collected to fill 52 backpacks to assist families that are not able to afford the school supplies that their child needs to be successful. (Cost of school supplies per child: 1st grader - $76.67, 2nd grader - $46.61, 3rd grader - $28.27, 4th grader - $32.14 and 5th grader - $34.30.)The goal was reached with the leadership of Joanne McCully and Betty Calton, along with other council members and the support from SDES faculty and staff who donated items and money ($1,126 was collected). In addition, hand-wipes, tissue boxes, paper towels, antibacterial liquid hand soaps, and large and small plastic baggies were purchased and/or collected for classrooms. Several Recreation and Wellness staff members offered their assistance to stuff the backpacks. A special thanks goes out to everyone who helped make this a successful endeavor, especially the diamond sponsor, Wal-Mart, for donating the backpacks. Kudos to SDES staff for their support in this outreach initiative.
After McCully and Calton purchased the items, the backpacks were stuffed with supplies and stored in a room at the Recreation and Wellness Center. Arrangements were made to transport the supplies to Bonneville Elementary School and present them to the school's personnel. Many thanks to Hector Petrolo for his assisting McCullly and Calton in the moving of the supplies from RWC into the van.
Upon reaching the front of Bonneville Elementary School, McCully and Calton was greeted by Sean Maguire, assistant principal, Meg King, guidance counselor, and other school personnel who helped bring the supplies into the building. Kimberly Bias, principal, along with Maguire and King, thanked the council members for the supplies and invited them to monthly meetings at the school, ensuring the community connection will remain strong.
