Embedded Files
Support for Struggling Readers
Support for Struggling Readers
Principal Guenthner would like to provide the most up-to-date training for teachers and staff in supporting struggling readers: Evidence-based Literacy Instruction. All-in, it will cost $4k per person. Maybe someday it will be standard across the County but we don't want to wait.
Principal Guenthner would like to start with 2nd grade, a home room teacher, and the reading specialists. Let's come together as a community to do everything in our power to help ALL Wyngate children learn to read.
Recent projects
Recent projects
Let there be sod!
Let there be sod!
A successful back field resurfacing project
A successful back field resurfacing project
Two years of advocacy came to fruition when MCPS resurfaced the soccer field in August 2025. In addition, the Foundation supplied the school with long hoses and sprinklers so we can maintain the nice, new sod!
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
A brand new AV System for our All Purpose Room
A brand new AV System for our All Purpose Room
In 1997, MCPS added the 3-5th grade wing and with it, a brand new audio system. With two speakers. It even played CDs! By 2023, the system was insufficient and outdated. And if you've ever been to Back to School Night or a school play or concert, you know know we couldn't hear anything.
The Foundation worked with MCPS to replace it with a digital, bluetooth enabled system and added more speakers. We selected a brand proven to successfully support schools like ours.
Emergency Carpeting!
Emergency Carpeting!
Giving a soft spot for our new teachers to land
Giving a soft spot for our new teachers to land
Our first teacher grant to be funded in 5 years! After our enrollment numbers allowed us to hire more teachers and reduce classroom sizes, we had two brand new teachers join the week before the start of the 2025-26 school year.
We purchased two large rugs to help quickly get the new classrooms outfitted. This small item goes a long way in making a warm and inviting classroom - by providing a place to sit for instruction, a play area for friends, or just a cozy place to take a break.
Past projects
Past projects
Makerspace
Makerspace
In 2019, the PTA and the Foundation teamed up to equip the school Makerspace. Students do hands-on projects every other week with Ms. Bhanot, our media specialist. In early grades, they might learn physics by racing paper planes. In higher grades, they might use robotics to solve a challenge.
Flexible Seating
Flexible Seating
The Foundation equipped Wyngate classrooms with age-appropriate seating options to increase engagement and reduce behavior issues, particularly for special needs children.
Laptop carts
Laptop carts
Before the pandemic made chromebooks ubiquitous, Wyngate had a laptop mobile cart with 30 laptops for occasional online lessons thanks to the generosity of the Wyngate community.
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse