This Saturday, May 19 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, join volunteers from Boston Cares and other Curley families at our semi-annual Curley K-8 community clean-up to help make our schoolyard shine!  All ages welcome.  Come for a little or a lot.  Bring your gardening gloves and good humor to lend a hand in making a visible difference.

Background

The Community Initiatives Committee is comprised of parents, teachers and community organizations.  The Committee organizes a community clean-up of the schoolyard each semester and undertakes general improvement projects (planting, painting, etc.)  both outside and inside the school.  Together with Earthworks, we steward our orchard on Centre Street with the aim of maintaining, harvesting, preserving and donating the fruit of our labor.  For the past two Januarys, the Curley has hosted Boston Cares’ day of service in which more than 600 volunteers chose to take “a day on” rather than a day off.

In 2008, the Curley K-8 was the recipient of a $300,000 grant from the Boston Schoolyard Initiative (BSI) to design and build an improved schoolyard and an outdoor classroom for all our students!  The ribbon cutting ceremony took place on October 8, 2009, opening the schoolyard after Phase 1 of the project was completed.  A new mural was completed in Summer 2010 in conjunction with Mayor Menino’s mural crew.

We are currently seeking a grant or grants in order to bring Phase 2 of the project to a successful conclusion (namely, a gateway seating area at the Centre Street entrance and a playing field with perimeter track behind the school.

To get involved or to join the Community Initiatives team as a volunteer, community partner or funder, please contact Principal Jeff Slater or any of the following Curley parents:  Julie Smith-Bartoloni, Liza Stearns, Flo Zimmerman (orchard) or Asa Runefelt (outdoor classroom)