There will be no school for all grades next Monday, January 31st to allow for teacher professional development and planning.
Call for Great River School Enrollment Applications
Does your student have a sibling you want to enroll at Great River School? Have a friend who has been interested in our unique educational setting? Applications for the 2022-23 enrollment lottery are due February 15th, 2022 at 11:59pm.
To apply, check out our enrollment website for more information or fill out our 2022-23 Application for Enrollment. You must submit a separate application for each student and for each school year.
We will hold a virtual open house on February 1st at 6 pm and hold our virtual enrollment lottery on February 22nd at 10am. For more information on either event, email enroll@greatriverschool.org.
Minecraft Ice Palace Contest
Three of our UA students are interning at Victoria Theater Arts Center and helping to organize this cool event!
For more information or to register, check out the FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/984972492107921?ref=newsfeed
Tell Us What You Love About Great River
It’s almost Valentine’s Day! Spread the love by taking a few minutes to tell us what makes Great River School special to you! (https://www.bit.ly/grslove)
GRS may use your answers for an upcoming donor appeal. Let's support our school! THANK YOU!
Snow Queen Part II Tickets Available
The Snow Queen - Part II (The Saga Continues)
Lower Adolescent Theater Intensive
Performances will be held virtually on a Zoom webinar.
Tickets are $7 for students and $14 for adults.
Purchase Tickets Here
Performances will be Thursday, 27th at 6pm and Friday, 28th at 6pm. Ticketholders will receive the webinar link via email close to the performance date.
Gerda travels into the great unknown on a quest to find her best friend. Are the folks she meets along the way friend or foe? Will Gerda eventually find Kaye? Will the Snow Queen complete her fiendishly icy designs to punish all of humanity? Join in for our first ever virtual theater experience and the next virtual installment of The Snow Queen and find out!
Box Tops at Great River
Yes - we do collect Box Tops! Yes - they DO contribute to our school!
Remember to scan your receipts so GRS can earn Boxtops for Education points.
You can follow the new-ish scanning method (see the how-to for a primer on scanning your shopping receipts) AND we still collect any box tops that you can find that you can still cut from the box. Please give those to Holly at the front desk. Any questions? Email Holly at hbell@greatriverschool.org
There’s a sweepstakes happening through the end of February; you can enter for the chance to win 5,000 box tops for Great River!
No School for All Grades January 31st
There will be no school for all grades on Monday, January 31st to allow for teacher professional development and planning.
Heron To Go Daily Digest Error
We had an error where a previously scheduled post with the original HTG order deadline went out on Sunday afternoon. We had a wonderful and overwhelming response to Heron To Go 2.0 and hit our order capacity on Friday afternoon! We closed orders earlier than anticipated and sent a Daily Digest post informing families. Apologies for the confusion with the Sunday post going out and for any families who weren’t able to order!
Heron To Go Ordering Closed Early
**We have had a wonderful and overwhelming response to Heron To Go, 2.0 and have hit our order capacity! We closed orders earlier than anticipated. Apologies to any families who weren’t able to order!**
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Heron To Go was our kitchen's response project to the COVID-19 pandemic. By preparing our high-standard meals for community members, we were able to keep our kitchen staff employed and our collective belly full.
We are offering one week of a special edition of Heron To Go for this round of distance learning.
Families can order their meals using this form. Meals will be made fresh, kept refrigerated, and bagged with heating instructions included. Soups will come frozen.
Heron To Go is open to anyone, Great River family or not. Please share widely with your networks, especially if they enjoyed our HTG meals during our last round of distance learning!
Thank you for choosing to support our team! Any questions? Email lunch@greatriverschool.org.
Tell Us What You Love About Great River
It’s almost Valentine’s Day! Spread the love by taking a few minutes to fill out this form telling us what makes Great River School special to you.
(Your answers may be used by the Great River School Foundation on the Great River social media pages and in communications with parents in an upcoming donor appeal.)
Call for Great River School Enrollment Applications
Does your student have a sibling you want to enroll at Great River School? Have a friend who has been interested in our unique educational setting? Applications for the 2022-23 enrollment lottery are due February 15th, 2022 at 11:59pm.
To apply, check out our enrollment website for more information or fill out our 2022-23 Application for Enrollment. You must submit a separate application for each student and for each school year.
We will hold a virtual open house on February 1st at 6 pm and hold our virtual enrollment lottery on February 22nd at 10am. For more information on either event, email enroll@greatriverschool.org.
Heron To Go Ordering Open
Heron To Go was our kitchen's response project to the COVID-19 pandemic. By preparing our high-standard meals for community members, we were able to keep our kitchen staff employed and our collective belly full.
We are offering one week of a special edition of Heron To Go for this round of distance learning.
Families can order their meals using this form. Meals will be made fresh, kept refrigerated, and bagged with heating instructions included. Soups will come frozen.
Heron To Go is open to anyone, Great River family or not. Please share widely with your networks, especially if they enjoyed our HTG meals during our last round of distance learning!
Ordering will be open until midnight Sunday, January 23rd! Thank you for choosing to support our team! Any questions? Email lunch@greatriverschool.org.
Special Edition of Heron To Go
Heron To Go was our kitchen's response project to the COVID-19 pandemic. By preparing our high-standard meals for community members, we were able to keep our kitchen staff employed and our collective belly full.
We are offering one week of a special edition of Heron To Go for this round of distance learning.
Families can order their meals using this form. Meals will be made fresh, kept refrigerated, and bagged with heating instructions included. Soups may come frozen.
Heron To Go is open to anyone, Great River family or not. Please share widely with your networks, especially if they enjoyed our HTG meals during our last round of distance learning!
Ordering will be open until midnight Sunday, January 23rd! Thank you for choosing to support our team! Any questions? Email lunch@greatriverschool.org.
Chinook Book Fundraiser
One year digital subscription is a suggested donation of $20 or pay what you can. You can always donate a subscription to a GRS staff member!
The Chinook Book app helps you discover more sustainable ways to live, work, and play through inspiring stories, savings, rewards, and prizes. With mobile offers that can be redeemed online or in-store, plus monthly giveaways of gifts, groceries, and more, you’ll always find a new way to save while helping your community thrive.
Use the QR Code to fill out the google form and pay via Paypal OR fill out the google form and drop your payment at the GRS front desk
A special link with access to your subscription will be emailed to the address you provide.
Funds raised go to support the many wonderful programs that make Great River School such a wonderful place!
Policy Committee Working Group Tomorrow
The GRS Board Policy Committee is holding a working session tomorrow January 19th, from 3:30-5:30pm on Zoom, to discuss Great River’s harassment and violence, bullying, and discipline policies and advise them as part of our school’s equitable practice.
These current policies can be found at the links below:
Family & Student Handbook (p 54-58).
We highly encourage all interested community members to attend. You may want to review the policies linked above in advance. A virtual Zoom link was sent to all caregivers on January 12th - if you need the virtual meeting link to be resent, email office@greatriverschool.org
Half Day on January 19th for Elementary
There will be a half day of distance learning for all Elementary students in grades 1-6 tomorrow Wednesday, January 19th for teacher professional development.
Adolescent students will have a normal distance learning school day.
No School For All Grades Monday January 17th
There will be no distance learning for all grades this upcoming Monday, January 17th in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day.
Summer Camp Registration Open
Summer Camp Registration is now open! Our camps are a fun way for your camper to spend a week exploring, building, learning, moving, creating, and having a blast. At GRS, we treat each other and our environment with respect, and we are focused on being safe while having fun. We are open to all people from everywhere. No Montessori or Great River School experience necessary for a great summer here.
We are dedicated to making summer camp possible and affordable for all through our early-bird pricing, sibling discount, multi-program discount and our scholarship program.
Check out all our camps at www.greatriverschool.org/summercamp.
No School for Elementary Grades on January 14th
There will be no school for Elementary grades (1-6) TOMORROW, Friday, January 14th for a teacher grading day.
Half Day on January 19th
There will be a half day for all grades next Wednesday, January 19th for teacher professional development.