Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group: 
Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Middle School
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
500
Year Founded: 
2014
About the Program: 

Our goals are:
1. Maintain environmental awareness at St Kateri
2. Remain a Platinum Eco School through these type of initiatives
3. Be seen as a model for other schools to follow in their green space or school property
4. Teaching tool by having the students learn through garden clubs and incorporating it into all aspects of curriculum
5. continuing with our belief in giving to others
6. Mentoringship where the older students help the younger students plant and learn how to create sustainable gardens
7. To create school spirit by involving all students in planting, growing, seeding, maintaining and harvesting
8. By showing the students that gardening can be fun and productive
9. To recognize the benefits of eating healthy and growing for nutritional reasons
10. to take home knowledge and ideas and start their own gardens.