Reynolds Greenspaces Project

The RSGP is a restoration and revitalization initiative planned with years of visioning by Reynolds staff and students. As a community action project, a team from the 2007-2008 class of Leadership Victoria helped Reynolds School launch their vision.

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The project will involve a Garry Oak restoration and natural revitalization on the front school grounds.

An under-used inner courtyard will be transformed into a self-sustaining, natural, learning and relaxing common area. Natural species, garden beds with water management, and aesthetic elements are components of the design.

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Leadership Victoria Community Action Project Team:

Kelly Binette, John Carlow, Dan Darche, John Craig, John Hall, and Barry Herring (Project Coach).

Leadership Victoria was established in the fall of 2000 through Volunteer Victoria. The program identifies emerging leaders and enhances their development in becoming community leaders. Part of the ten month program includes a team based community action project. Our project team values align with the vision for Reynold’s High School.

Our Involvement

Working with the Reynold’s Green Spaces Project Team we will develop a project blueprint and comprehensive planning document. The plan will encapsulate the vision for the school, visualize the design, layout and phasing of the large project elements. Detailing will include architectural drawings with potential sources of funding and logistical considerations. This phase of the project will be completed by the end of May 2008.

LATEST - November , 2008

The project is featured in Earth Future's EcoNews newsletter for November!

The RGSP has been awarded $2000 from the Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds Fund!!

The project will benefit from an additional $ 850.00 from the Victoria Foundation !

The garden beds have been constructed in the inner courtyard, and filled with soil.

RGSP has been awarded $ 2500.00 from the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation !

Phase one involving creation of the project plan and design has been completed. Planting in the front of the school has started and over the summer, excavation in the courtyard began.

With complete project plans, major fundraising is underway.

This project was one of five winners in Tyee contest for greening projects.

WELCOME TO REYNOLDS

Reynolds Secondary School is a comprehensive secondary school serving approximately 975 students in grades 9-12. Reynolds Secondary School is located in the Greater Victoria neighbourhoods of Lake Hill, Rogers Farm, Braefoot, Cloverdale, Cedar Hill and Quadra and is the French Immersion secondary school for the western sector of the Greater Victoria School District.

Welcome to District 61

The Greater Victoria School District is proud to provide quality education for approximately 20,000 students in 26 Elementary Schools, 10 Middle Schools, and 7 Secondary Schools. Each year, over 1,200 adult learners register with our Continuing Education Program. Our district also offers a variety of Programs of Choice and three Elementary Schools of Choice.

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The Environment

The Board of School Trustees believes that the maintenance of our environment is necessary to the quality of our lives. Further, it believes that the district and its schools have the responsibility of fostering and reinforcing positive
environmental concepts, concepts that will enhance the relationship between living things and their natural and built surroundings. The introduction of these concepts must begin early in the life of each child inorder to develop a responsible environmental ethic which will be sustained throughout life.

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