Sun NurseriesSun Nurseries has partnered with us for our gardens and habitat restoration projects. They have provided important information concerning native plants and garden planning for our new native plant educational garden. In addition, they have helped us to run two community milkweed sales to increase monarch habitat in our school community.
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Screenshot of a post on our Green School Facebook page about the milkweed sale created in partnership with Sun Nurseries in 2016.
Picture of the 60+ milkweed plants that were purchased by Mount View families thanks to Sun Nurseries.
Email from Sun Nurseries arranging a time for a landscape designer to meet with our students about a new educational plant garden.
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Oyster Recovery PartnershipThe Oyster Recovery Partnership has helped Mount View to develop its Oyster Gardening program by providing oyster spat and cages for the last four years, training our staff and families on how to raise oysters, and connecting us with the Annapolis Maritime Museum and Coastal Conservation Association.
We are proud to have made our partnership into a formal agreement in 2017, joining forces with the Oyster Gardeners of Dunloggin Middle School. www.oysterrecovery.org/ |
The Mission and Vision statements of the partnership with ORP. (September 2017)
Screenshot of Facebook post announcing the partnership with ORP, including a picture of the signing. (September 2017)
(left to right: HCPSS Chief Academic Officer Bill Barnes / MVMS principal Allen Cosentino / MVMS teacher Susan Mako / ORP representative Bryan Gomes / DMS teacher Dan Blue / DMS principal Jeffrey Fink) |
Annapolis Maritime MuseumFor the last four years, we have worked with Annapolis Maritime Museum to develop our Oyster Gardening program. Our students visit the museum each fall and spring to learn more about oyster reefs and the Chesapeake Bay, and our families take care of 8 cages of oyster spat hanging from their docks. In addition, AMM helps us to arrange our spring CBF one day field experience aboard the skipjack Stanley Norman so that we can release our spat onto an oyster sanctuary in the Bay.
We are proud to be in the process of formalizing this relationship! AMM will continue to allow us to keep our oyster cages on their docks, and we are creating a website with our data so that they can use it with other school groups who visit the museum. https://amaritime.org/ |
Mount View families at the AMM to hang our oyster cages from the dock. (December 2015)
An email about the rough draft of our partnership document. (March 2019)
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PTA Green Committee
Our PTA Green Committee supports our Green School initiatives, particularly the campaigns which require maintenance such as juice pouch upcycling with Terracycle, the marker collection with Crayola, and the textile campaign with Clothing To Cash.
Ms. Goon is our PTA representative and chairperson of the Green Committee. www.mvmspta.weebly.com |
A screenshot of the PTA website showing Ms. Goon as the chairperson.
An email from Ms. Goon with updates about Green School initiatives.
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Coastal Conservation Association:
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Mr. Sikorski, from the CCA, presenting to our students. (May 2018)
Students building Oyster Reef Balls with the help of CCA. (May 2018)
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Clothing To Cash
The Clothing To Cash program collects our old textiles and ensures that the bin on our campus is emptied within 24 hours of being filled up. They pay our PTA based upon the number of pounds of textiles that we collect each month.
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The Clothing To Cash bin on our school campus. (October 2017)
A screenshot of an email with Clothing To Cash answering students' questions about the program. (October 2015)
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