NEW Water Garden Workdays Saturday May 14th & Sunday May 15th  

Come help build our NEW tiled water garden and hand pump project in Life Lab.  Last year's 6^th graders made beautiful hand painted tiles with life lab memories that they designed specifically for Gateway School's Life Lab Garden. These tiles will be used to decorate our new water garden system which will treat and re-use water from our outdoor garden kitchen. An ecologically-based water management system using 3 tiered bio-filtration pond boxes will be used to treat the water from the outdoor kitchen sinks. Students will then convey the water through a hand pump to watering cans to water the garden beds. 

We will be breaking ground for this project on Saturday May 14th and Sunday May 15th from 9 am to 3 pm each day.

We are hoping to have as many families as possible help with this project. There will be plenty of jobs appropriate for children, such as digging, installing pipe, putting in pond liner, planting, and more, so bring the whole family!

If you want to learn about creating water gardens at your home and can join us for some fun in the sun, please RSVP to Jeremy King Jeremy.King@gatewaysc.org with the day and time you can help as well as any preference you have for types of jobs.

Thank you!

Join us to learn what we found out about Gateway School through your participation in last spring's Cultural Values Assessment! Percy and Ruth (of Hidden Fire Consulting), who helped design the survey and collect the results, will present their findings from the parent, student, and school-wide surveys and what these results mean for Gateway School going forward. The group will then break into smaller groups - a Discovery Café - to delve into the deeper meaning behind some of the chosen values.

Enjoy a café atmosphere with refreshments, and help us to engage in some open conversations about academic excellence, character development, community involvement, and the possibilities for Gateway School.  For more information and to RSVP, click here . 

40 Acts of Kindness Updates

REMINDER: GPA Upcoming Events 

5/19 - Bonny Doon Wine Tasting, 6-8pm

Gateway's 2nd Annual Bonny Doon Night is Thursday May 19 from 6-8pm. Enjoy a private event for our school community (adults only please). $15 include 3 pours of amazing Bonny Doon wine & light faire from their Celler Door kitchen. Tickets are now available in the office.

5/31 - All-parent Meeting, 6-7pm  Don't miss the final parent association gathering for the school year. The Parent's Association is your organization, so come and help us wrap up the year and look forward to 2011-12!

Thank you to all of the parent volunteers who helped make this year's Grandparents Day so special. Special thanks to our coordinator this year, Mika Jarnagin-Knox and her lead team: Aerin Martin, Shiva Hurvitz, Andrea Hultzen and Sheri Corona, and to other parents who volunteered throughout the day, including: Nina Maisterra, Mat Rowley,

Kathy Tiddle, Karen Jensen, Pricilla Cinque, Michele Claussen, Sally Fauske, Michele Brady, Chinshu Huang, Scott Polland, Ivan Hulphers, and Joanna Manoff.  Thank you also to those who helped in Life Lab for the 4th grade lunch:

Joanna Manoff, Michelle delli-santi, Michelle claussen, Jeremy, Kurt, Sari and the amazing life lab crew of Jackie and Nicole.

CONSIDER KENNOLYN CAMP! 

Located on 240 acres of redwoods overlooking Monterey Bay, Kennolyn's Day Camp for ages 5-13 includes daily bus transportation with convenient bus stops all over Santa Cruz.  Enjoy over 40 hours a week of fun-filled group activities. Activities include horseback riding, vaulting, animal care, fencing, riflery, archery, high ropes, climbing, swimming, tennis, crafts, pottery, and more! The professional staff provides an overall 1:4 staff to camper ratio. An RN or EMT is on duty during camp hours. Overnights and Parent BBQs are also included. Visit Kennolyn during an open house on May 21st, or June 10th. Kennolyn is accredited by the American Camp Association and is the 1st and only Diamond Certified camp in the US. Kennolyn donates 4% of all camp tuition paid by Gateway families back to our school.

For every Gateway student who attends Kennolyn, Kennolyn donates a portion of their proceeds back to Gateway School.  Last year we received $953.89!  If you are interested in learning more about Kennolyn Camps, please pick up a brochure in the Main Office, or visit  www.kennolyncamps.com.    

Don't forget to order your yearbook. Order forms can be found in the box on the left.