Garden Street Academy

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Roaring 20s Gala & Auction March 18th

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The Roaring 20s Gala & Auction will be held on March 18, 2017 in the beautiful surroundings of La Cumbre Country Club. It will be an entertaining and exciting event that supports students through raising funds for our Scholarship Program.  See our full auction page for more information and to help support our sponsors.

Online Auction Now Live

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The Roaring 20s online auction is now live! We are truly grateful for your generous donations. Thanks to you, we have a fantastic array of items available for bidding, ranging from restaurant gift cards to fitness programs to summer camps – and much more. Now we invite you to take advantage of some of these […]

Hour of Code Reviews from Coding Elective

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Our Lower School students participated in the international “Hour Of Code” last December. GSA has been participating in this program for several years and we enjoy the materials provided at www.hourofcode.org. Since the international Hour of Code is only one hour long, we don’t get a chance to look at all of the coding options […]

Boys Basketball Enter CIF Playoffs

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Our Upper School Boys basketball team has earned a place the CIF Southern Section Basketball Playoffs! They are the #3 seed in the Condor League and will host #3 seed in the Coast Valley League, Valley Christian School of Santa Maria Wednesday night at 7pm. We have home team advantage and ask you to join […]

Middle School Play: “Bugsy Malone”

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Performances are February 15th (1:45pm) and 16th (3:45pm) in the Black Box theater. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the sign in/out table. Any leftover tickets will be available at the door, but seating is limited.

Parent Workshop – Internet Safety and Cyberbullying

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Please join us for a Parent Workshop about internet safety and cyberbullying on Thursday, February 9th, from 6-7pm. We’ve invited Ann Bryant, CALM‘s Prevention and Parenting Coordinator, to lead this informative discussion. Refreshments will be served before the workshop begins.

Rock Video from GSA Recording Studio

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These kids rock! Evan and Julian are 7th graders at Garden Street Academy. They’ve been working on their own songs before/after school under the guidance of our Music Director, Ian Putnam. They wanted to lay this track down in our recording studio, so we setup some iPads to video their session. Ray, a senior stuck […]

The “Music Van” Visits GSA

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Last Friday the 2nd-5th graders received a visit from the Santa Barbara Symphony Music Van, which is a mobile music studio full of orchestra instruments. The docents for the Music Van, including our very own GSA parent Andy Radford, introduced the students to the string, woodwind, brass, and percussion instrument families. The docents demonstrated each instrument, highlighting the variation in […]

6th Grade Begins Wind Turbine Project

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The 6th grade Technology class is beginning their unit on 3D printing and design this trimester. The overarching goal is to design their own wind turbine blades. Students will print and test how well their designs capture wind energy from a large fan. They will do this several times, trying to improve the performance of […]

Upper School Self-Portraits

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For the past month and a half, the Upper Painting class has been consumed with the object of painting their own portraits. The process, though lengthy and trying, has turned out some rather catching pieces. With a raw cotton canvas roughly twenty by eighteen inches and a digitally manipulated photo of themselves, students began it all […]