Residents Can Help Schools Earn Easy Money

By Caroline Holmes

Box Top and Labels for Education Coordinator

Hampton’s , and families and friends have been collecting Box Tops from a variety of products including snacks, frozen foods, cereals and yogurt for a few years now and they are inviting the Hampton community members to help them by donating their Box Tops.  

According to Marston School Principal Lois Costa she feels “This is a wonderful way to provide enriching education opportunities to our students and extend the curriculum. Without this money, we could not provide all the programs we currently do.”

The Box Tops are turned in to the Hampton School Administrative Unit 90 schools and they turn them into General Mills. General Mills then sends the school a check that can only be used for educational and enrichment programs. 

Centre School Principal Timothy Lannan states  “Some examples of the programs that we have been able to offer include Arithmatickles, Mainly Stars Planetarium, a bully program and Centre School’s field day activities.”

For the school year 2011/2012 all three Hampton schools combined have raised over $5,700 in Box Top funds.  

It is easy and doesn’t cost a thing to drop off the Box Tops at the local drop box locations. When asked what future programs that they think Box Tops would help with, Vice Principal Andrea Shepard says the funds would help the Academy in “Purchasing supplies and new pieces of technology for our classrooms, library and after school clubs.”

How to participate

• What – Look for Box Top products that have the bright pink Box Top for Education coupons that can be redeemed by schools for money.
• Where – There are three drop off boxes located in town.  There are two at the , one can be found at the Circulation Desk and the other is in the Children’s Room.  The third drop box is on the counter at Hampton’s Town Hall near the spiral stairway.

Keep a look out for other opportunities — Centre School parent Kristin Lyons noticed that Market Basket was having a Box Tops for Education Sweepstakes last summer. She submitted her name and in October her name was selected as the Grand Prize winner of 5,000 Bonus Box Tops for Centre School.

For more information or any questions about SAU90’s Box Top program contact the Box Top Coordinators at Hamptonboxtops@gmail.com and for general information about Box Tops visit www.boxtops4education.com.

A PowerPoint presentation from SAU 90 on the Box Top program is also available here on the SAU 90 website.