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Wintergreen students raise $7,000 for American Heart Foundation

February 1st, 2013

 

ACES Wintergreen Interdistrict Magnet School, 670 Wintergreen Ave., engaged its entire 640 student population in the recent American Heart Association’s Jump Rope for Heart and Hoops fundraiser to generate close to $7,000 in donations. The student’s fundraising effort ranked Wintergreen sixth of 450 participating schools in Connecticut. Physical Education teachers at the school, which has grades kindergarten through eight, organized the school-wide activity.

Plans are underway for the 2013 Jump Rope and Hoops for Heart initiative, which the school will host on March 25-29. Hoops for Heart will take place in May with the official date still to be announced.

ACES Wintergreen Interdistrict Magnet School provides a comprehensive liberal arts education to 640 Kindergarten through 8th grade students. The American Heart Association-sponsored Jump Rope and Hoops for Heart is an activity-based fundraiser that students support by exercising during the school day and raising money at home. This physical fitness and fundraising activity focuses on helping young people who are affected by heart-related illnesses.

The benefits of this activity are multi-faceted: students engage in physical activity, learn about social responsibility, raise funds for their peers with "special hearts", learn about heart health, and often will learn about heart-related illnesses in their own family. Students may participate in honor of a family member or friend afflicted with a heart-related illness.

To learn more or about the American Heart Association, call 1-800-AHA-USA1 or visit www.heart.org. For more information about

Established in 1969, Area Cooperative Educational Services, commonly known as ACES, is a local education agency that operates public schools and a regional educational service center that provides support to 25 school districts in south central Connecticut. ACES mission is to empower students, member districts, and other clients to meet educational and life challenges in the changing global environment by providing collaborative, customized, cost effective solutions to meet identified needs of our educational community. For more information, contact Evelyn Rossetti-Ryan, erossetti-ryan@aces.org,call 203-498-6881 or visit www.aces.org