Our teachers have painstakingly chosen their supply lists for next year. Please support their choices and save yourself gas, time and frustration by purchasing your complete kit online!  This year’s kits are GREEN and will be delivered to classrooms in reusable bags instead of throw-away boxes–with free shipping!

Click here to order now (Grand View will be the first selection, remember to choose your child’s grade for NEXT year).

June 30th is the absolute last date for orders!  Questions? Contact Jill Lamkin: jill.lamkin@gvpta.com

Dear Grand View,

It is with much pride that I inform you that today Grand View Elementary School was officially selected as a “National Green Ribbon School”. This honor is only being awarded to 78 schools across the United States of America. With over 220,000 private and public schools in America this means that Grand View finds itself in the company of .0003% of all schools. I will be flying to Washington DC on June 3rd to accept this well-deserved award on behalf of our students, staff and parents who have clearly shown themselves to be worthy of the title, “Greenest School in the Nation”.

Congratulations to each of you for helping us obtain this honor.

Warm Regards,

Rhonda Steinberg

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Congratulations to the newly slated Executive Board for Grand View PTA for 2012-13.

Senator Barbara Boxer recently sent a letter to Principal Steinberg congratulating her on Grand View’s nomination for the National Green Ribbon Schools Award. Congratulations to all who have helped Grand View become one of the greenest schools in the nation! Click here to read the letter from Senator Boxer.

(From The Beach Reporter, March 15, 2012)

Grand View's Growing Great Garden was featured on the front page of The Beach Reporter on March 15, 2012.

Grand View Elementary is nothing if not green.

The school has prided itself on its environmental programs like Walk to School Wednesdays, in-class composting and recycling, and innovative green curriculum and was the pilot school for the nationally-recognized Grades of Green program. The school is well known for cutting its lunch trash down from 40 bags to only two per day for 700 students and has been featured on national TV shows.

And now, a new mural painted in the school’s garden will serve as a colorful depiction of the school’s eco-friendly programs, namely its bountiful student-tended garden, for years to come.

“We are very proud of the new mural, which emphasizes our love of healthy eating and the green motto at Grand View of eating what you grow and then composting the remains,” said Principal Rhonda Steinberg. “The artist captured the essence of Grand View embracing the Growing Great program.”

(Read the rest of the article at TBRnews.com)

Local news website Manhattan Beach Patch features a video of our Science Expo.

Another reason to love Grand View!!

Rhonda Steinberg, Carolyn Seaton and Dr. Michael Mattews (Superintendent).

The SARCs were approved by our Board of Trustees at the January 18^th meeting.  The approved SARCs have been uploaded to the district’s website.

The School Plans were approved at the December 14^th meeting and have also been uploaded to our district website.