🌿 West Point Campus Receives Outdoor Classroom Grant

Monticello Academy’s West Point campus is excited to announce that we have been awarded a $15,000 Outdoor Classroom Grant from the Utah Division of Outdoor Recreation! This funding will make it possible to build a new outdoor classroom space that will expand learning opportunities for our students and enrich the overall campus environment.

🌼 A New Outdoor Learning Space Coming Soon

The outdoor classroom will be built just west of the new building and designed as a vibrant, engaging space where students can learn, explore, and connect with the natural world. The new area will feature:

🐝 Pollinator Garden

A dedicated space filled with pollinator-friendly plants to support local bees, butterflies, and other important species—providing students with hands-on learning about ecosystems, life cycles, and environmental stewardship.

🌿 Herb Garden

An aromatic, interactive garden where students can plant, care for, and study a variety of herbs. These herbs can also be used in lessons about nutrition, botany, and culinary arts.

🌱 Raised Garden Beds

Versatile raised beds that classes will use throughout the year for science investigations, plant studies, and seasonal gardening projects. These beds will also support our nutrition program, giving students the opportunity to grow and harvest foods they can learn about—and taste!

Schematic design of the new outdoor classroom

🌟 Enriching Education Through Nature

This new outdoor classroom will allow teachers to extend learning beyond the walls of the school building. Students will have opportunities to:

• Engage in hands-on science and ecology lessons

• Develop gardening and observation skills

• Explore plant life cycles and natural processes

• Strengthen curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking

• Connect classroom concepts to real-world experiences

The space is designed to be used across grade levels and subject areas, providing a flexible and inspiring environment for discovery.

🌱 Growing Together

Building this outdoor classroom will truly be a community effort, and we are excited to invite our wonderful families to be part of bringing it to life. In the coming months, we will be seeking parent and family volunteers to help construct garden beds, prepare soil, plant the gardens, and assist with early setup.

Not only will this support make the project possible—it will make it meaningful.
A garden built with our families will hold special significance for our students, who will learn and grow in a space created by the caring hands of their own community.

We can’t wait to build this together.