Outdoor Classroom Construction Begins March 16th!

[Sent out to BCSIS and HP parents]

As you will remember from earlier notices, High Peaks and BCSIS have been awarded a $100,000 grant for building a wonderful new outdoor classroom. This classroom will provide our students with ample opportunities to explore and learn about the environment, perform science projects, create castings, work with various power sources as well as many other instructional opportunities.

The impact that the construction will have on students is that starting tomorrow, Wednesday, March 16, the picnic tables will be pulled up. Children will not be able to eat outside on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Both schools, as well as the District are having the tables re-set with new cement bases around the tables. Hopefully, this will alleviate the mud and bumble bees hovering around puddles of water at the children’s feet.

Further impacts will be that the bike rack by the picnic tables will not be accessible as well as the walk through or ‘man gate’ on the west front fence. If you use the sidewalk in this area, please be careful of construction equipment and please, remind your children to look both ways before crossing in this area.

The construction of the picnic table bases will be completed when we return from spring break if the weather holds out over the next 15 days! While the majority of the construction on the outdoor classroom will be completed during spring break, it will take approximately 2-3 weeks to get it fully operational, again, a lot depends on the weather. As soon as we have a date for the opening of the outdoor classroom, we will let you know!

We want to take this opportunity to thank all of the wonderful parent volunteers who are making this classroom possible!

Outdoor Classroom article in Daily Camera

The Aurora 7 Outdoor Classroom Project was mentioned recently in an article in the Daily Camera. Click on the title of this post to link to the article.
Keep an eye on this blog for more information about the classroom in the local news.

Thanks to Muscle Crew for moving granite slab

We had a great group of willing workers who showed up last week to move a large slab of granite that we will be using in the Outdoor Classroom. The granite was generously donated by ReSource Yard http://www.resourceyard.org/, and will be used for a work table for teachers at the Outdoor Classroom. Thanks to everyone who pitched in!

Unloading Granite Tabletop at School

The Muscle Team will be unloading granite near the dumpsters at school on Thursday, March 10, at 2:45 pm.

Welcome

Welcome to the blog for information about the creation of the Aurora 7 Outdoor Classroom and Interactive Sundial Mosaic.