Greenfield's community partners include the following:
- Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival
- Mann Center for the Performing Arts
- Network Arts provided mosaic residency and installation
- Musicopia provided music appreciation and instrumental experience
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archeology
- Rosenbach Museum and Library: Provided mythology program and museum visits for Mentally Gifted Program.
- Spiral Q Puppet Theatre: Provided Mentally Gifted Students opportunity to create giant puppets, write plays, and perform at an evening celebration.
- The Wood Turning Center: provided wood turning instruction and the opportunity for students to use a lathe and create small objects from wood.
- American Red Cross: Provides Disaster Preparedness Program for Middle School.
- Drexel University: Provides Middle School Nutrition Program.
- SUBWAY: Provides Nutrition Education Program.
- Asthma Bus/Jefferson Hospital: Provides Tobacco Education and Asthma Education.
- ARKEMA: Provides sponsorships and support for many special programs, such as Honor Roll trip, Science Fair judging and awards, printing of the school newspaper, Accelerated Reader prizes, RIF books, Career Day, Holiday Greeting Card Contest, and other events throughout the year.
- Philadelphia Water Department: sponsored hands-on lessons in storm drain marking and is involved in the "Greening of Greenfield" Initiative.
- Environmental Protection Agency: provided lessons on recycling and water pollution.
- Bartram's Garden: Conducted mapping program for Greenfield students.
- Moore College of Art provides an after school program in which Greenfield students embark on a semester-long art project that culminates in a major installation at the school. Past projects have included a tile mosaic that now adorns the entire third floor hallway, and a large-scale model of the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood which included mobiles, photographs, and sculptures.
- Science Leadership Academy
- City Institute Library
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22nd and Chestnut Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19103
P: 215.299.3566
F: 215.299.3567
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Home and School Association site: www.greenfieldhsa.org
The Daily Green (student newspaper): thedailyg.googlepages.com
Environmental Education: www.greeninggreenfield.net
Grades: K-8
Total Enrollment: 520
SDP School Profile
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The Greenfield School has two full science labs, two computer labs, an expanded state-of-the-art library, newly renovated cafeteria, air-conditioned and handicapped accessible building, a fully equipped gymnasium, and a kindergarten play yard. The "Secret Garden" contains bountiful flowers as well as blackberry, raspberry and blueberry bushes. Last September, the Secret Garden’s apple tree bore enough fruit to provide each teacher with an apple on the first day of school!
"Greening Greenfield" is a five-phase initiative that will transform the building and grounds of the school from a mixed-use asphalt play yard to a self-sustaining, flowering green space. Phase I, which was completed in 2009, included new play equipment, a rain garden with 23 new trees, an herb garden and orchard, and a rock garden. The new water-permeable surface collects rainwater and reduces runoff into the municipal sewer system.
The rooftop weather station, funded completely by a student-organized "penny drive", is connected to every classroom, providing constant meteorological data.
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