PHOTOS: School supplies for Ogden Elementary School in Hewlett

Cardboards boxes and paper and reusable bags full of supplies were dropped off in roving waves of vehicles at Ogden Elementary School on a cool, sunny day that made you feel that summer was ending and fall is near.

Parents and some of the children who attend the Hewlett-Woodmere school on Longview Avenue in Valley Stream brought their supplies to the campus on Aug. 31. The idea was to help eliminate the burden and commotion that is created when the students bring the supplies on the first day of school.

“On the first day of school we have our Waffle and Welcome and didn’t want the kids carrying the heavy bags,” Principal Dina Anzalone said. “And we have staff members and the PTA helping.”

Ogden PTA co-presidents, Tracy Hopkins and Keisha Grant, rolled several packages of supplies to a classroom, and several teachers and teacher aides, including Diana Orenstein, Mary Villalba and Andrea Villalobos, manned the outsides tables as vehicles rolled up with their packages.

Torie Hopkins, 8, is entering the forth grade, and she endorsed the school supply delivery day.

“I think it’s a really good idea and I like it a lot, so the kids don’t hurt their backs and no one is late,” she said.

Ogden Elementary School is dedicated to Chauncey McCall Ogden, who served 27 years in the district as an elementary school principal, high school principal and school superintendent. He retired in 1955.