Exciting News!

At the February 8th meeting the PTA voted in a new Green Policy we wish to adhere to at Grant.

The PTA of Grant Elementary School hereby affirms its support for the principles of environmental sustainability and stewardship.  Consistent with its commitment to the environment,the PTA will consider carefully the environmental impact of its activities and actions and will endeavor to minimize negative environmental impacts where feasible and to promote environmental sustainability as an important value of the entire Grant community.

Please spread the word,teach our kids to be responsible citizens and lets all further our efforts in making Grant a truly sustainable school.

Chef Gino in the Huffington Post

Click here to read the article!

Grant Learning Garden Update

Thank you to all of the Grant families who came out on Monday night to support the GrowingGreat dinner held at Huckleberry! A special thank you to all our third graders for writing up the menus and our Grant student “servers”- Tess Goddard,Samara Koseff,J.J. and Alec Raymond,Kayla Lewis-Koury,Anthony Perini,Sophie Falk,Jack and McKenna Davis,Jessica Lieban,Ava Tung and Aoife Schenz.  The evening was a huge success and raised enough money to fund a significant portion of the costs of the Grant Learning Garden,and pay for the roll out of the GrowingGreat gardening and nutrition curriculum at Grant this year.

Click here to see some beautiful photos from the event! These were kindly taken by Yolanda Lewis.

The Grant Learning Garden team will be holding it’s first meeting on Friday,October 7th at 8:30am in the Auditorium. Please come if you are interested in getting involved in the delivery of the gardening and nutrition program. The GrowingGreat curriculum is designed to be delivered by parents in the classroom. We will also discuss other ways to get involved with the garden. Kids can play in the big yard,or attend the meeting with you. If you can’t make the meeting,but would like to be included in future Garden Team communications,please send an email to Jennifer Raymond at jennifer_a_raymond@yahoo.com or Jessica Tuck at Jesstuck@mac.com . Hope to see you there.

The Learning Garden Opens At Grant

Check out the Santa Monica Mirror Article.

Thank you to everyone who helped put the 436 bags of soil into the
garden boxes. Go “Team Soil.”

Thanks to everyone whose hard work made this dream for Grant a reality…  the kids loving the garden!

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