Environmental Volunteers
Our kindergarten through fifth grade students have the fortunate opportunity to learn about environmental sciences through a group called EVOLS. EVOLS sends us volunteers once per week to teach science units over a period of three to four weeks. The lessons are always hands on and very engaging.
Collective Roots Garden Project
We are fortunate to have our very own organic garden on campus. The garden is managed by CRGP. CRGP has developed extensive twelve week standards based science units that are taught to our students in kindergarten through fifth grade. They have also put together a middle school elective class that focuses on developing and planning a salad bar program for our school cafeteria. The students learn about everything from business to nutrition through this elective class.
Stanford Women’s Water Polo Team
Our partnership with the Stanford Women’s Water Polo Team started close to eight years ago. Every year the water polo team spends at least one day per week tutoring a student at EPACS. Several of the players have chosen to mentor the same student during all four years at Stanford. The students look forward to this additional support and are selected based on their academic need.
Theater Works
Every year Theater Works teaches our fourth grade students performance poetry to perform at our annual Pancake Breakfast. The students transform from being embarrassed fourth graders to Broadway stars. They learn a variety of theater games and memorize the performance poems to the point where they are rehearsing them in their sleep.
Junior League Character Education Program
The Junior League of the Peninsula has sponsored our Character Education program in our middle school for four years. Currently we have twelve volunteers who come in once a week to work with a group of boys or girls. They teach discuss some of the challenges they are faced with on a daily basis being a teenager and teach them lessons about bullying, gossiping and how to solve conflicts. Many of the Junior League volunteers have worked with the same group of students for three years in a row, which has allowed them to form strong relationships.
Save the Bay
Canoes in Sloughs: our on-the-water canoe field trip program for middle and high school students. Participants learn about Bay ecology and experience wetlands up close from a canoe.
Regional Water Quality Control Plant
The Regional Water Quality Control Plant has been visiting EPACS for three years now through a grant called Digging Deeper. The RWQCP provides the students in grades second through fifth with science lessons once per week for a period of four weeks. These units are focused on the grade level standards and are designed to reinforce the science education the students receive in the classroom.
Heller Ehrman Partnership & Pen Pal Project
Currently one of our fourth grade classes is participating in a pen pal project with employees at Heller Ehrman law firm. The students write to their pals once every two weeks or so and have had the opportunity to visit them at work. At the end of the school year they will have a celebration with their pen pals as a culmination to the project. Heller Ehrman also sponsors our annual 5th grade Outdoor Education Trip and our 4th grade Vida Verde trip.
YMCA
The local YMCA provides EPACS students and families with fall break, winter break and spring break camps at a low cost. They host the camp at EPACS and the students get to participate in engaging extracurricular activities throughout their vacation.