Rock View Elementary School

Our goal is to transform the school courtyard into a space for playing, learning, gardening, and teaching environmental education and nutrition. The redesigned courtyard will include a pre-kindergarten play space, an outdoor classroom with seating, a shallow pond as well as various habitat gardens to attract butterflies and birds, and raised garden beds for growing vegetables and herbs. Compost bins and rain barrels make the design environmentally sustainable. The raised planting beds can be used by the different grades to fulfill curriculum requirements, such as math