2017-456-E Arts - Ephesus Road Elem. School PTA - 2017-18 Arts Grant Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID:3F298E85-795E-4517-9AC0-9FEDA409614B Narrative Description of Applicant Organization The Ephesus Road Elementary School PTA is the site-specific chapter of the national organization of Parent Teacher Associations. It is organized and run by parents of current students at Ephesus Elementary with support from the school's faculty and staff. The primary goals of the organization are to (1) raise money with the purpose of providing additional financial resources to the school; (2) support work of teachers, staff and administrators; and (3) create enrichment opportunities for students. The PTA Board consists of at least six parents,the Principal, and at least one Faculty or Staff member. The Board guides the organizations efforts to support and promote the arts at Ephesus in the following ways. • Acting as point of contact and organizing cultural assemblies at the school • Acting as point of contact and organizing visiting artists to school • Organizing PTA Reflections Program (annual, national,theme-based multi-discipline art competition) • Raising money to fund these activities plus additional money provided to Faculty teaching the arts disciplines • Providing volunteers to school events that have art/s components • Publicizing these activities and providing information about community arts activities Enrollment at Ephesus varies from 400-445 students in grades K-5. All students receive weekly instruction in art, music, and PE. Additionally, students in grades 1-5 study French two times per week for 20 minutes per classroom session. Details of Proposed Project Summary The Ephesus Elementary School PTA requests$1937.50 to be matched by$1937.50 from the PTA budget to pay the artist fees for four Cultural Arts Assembly programs and a Hip-Hop Dance Instructor during the 2017- 18 school year. Each of the four Cultural Arts Assemblies will be shown to half of the school's population (either K-2 or 3-5), and the Dance Instructor will work with all 5th grade students to choreograph, learn and perform a Graduation Dance to be presented at the 5th grade Moving Up ceremony in the final days of the 2018 school year Project Goals Presenting the Assemblies and providing dance instruction to students are two ways that the PTA seeks to enrich students' education at school and to provide both exposure to and participation in novel artistic experiences. Ephesus Elementary School Profile Ephesus Elementary School is one of eleven elementary schools in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School District and serves approximately 414 students in grades K-5 (enrollment as of 5/25/2017). As may be expected, students attending Ephesus range in age between five (youngest K students)to twelve (oldest 5th grade students) and are approximately evenly divided between boys and girls. Of note, paying for assemblies at Ephesus Elementary School is more expensive than at some other district schools because the largest assembly space (the Gymnasium) only fits one-half of the student population. Due to this space limitation, each Cultural Arts assembly will be shown to half of the student population at a time either the students in pre-K through 2"d grades or to the students in 3rd through 5th grades (approximately 225 students). q 19 a 2.a;,`.r O`7 (.�11 r eiorr`AA o01,8I Iill 4,c>uough F'7"2..78(wwv ,111;orari<r,,ors)