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Ranney School Enhances Experiential Learning
with Upgraded Outdoor Space
Ranney School dedicated the Lubin Learning
Pavilion in its newly renovated Community
Garden and new adjacent patio featuring a
Ranney’s immersive Maymester program. The
project embodies the school’s ongoing commit-
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ment and service.
The renovations to the Community Garden,
the new pavilion, multiple outdoor learning spaces,
water catchment barrels, potting tables, a seat-
learning opportunities in a wide array of disciplines,
including the natural and social sciences,
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plained Judy Salisbury, founding Garden Coordinate
and newly retired Lower School Science teach-
from all three divisions to take classes outdoors.”
Parent volunteers help maintain the organic garden, including weed-
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vested vegetables are donated to Lunch Break in Red Bank through the Ran-
from the garden are incorporated into the curriculum, such as Lower School
students reading
a book about
cooking soup to
share with neighbors,
and then
harvesting and
cooking vegetables
to create
their own healthy
soup to serve in
The integrated
outdoor space
was designed by Siciliano Landscaping, who donated their design services
to the school.
forward to sharing homemade pizza at future gatherings with students,
The patio — which features the pizza oven, granite counter space,
bluestone topped retaining walls, and a large Ranney R in the center — is
positioned at the original entrance to the school.
The Lubin Learning Pavilion, Community Garden enhancements
and new patio were made possible through the generous philanthropic
Philip and Celia Celler (Steven ’22, Joseph ’24, Richard ’25) as well as the
Ranney School Parents’ Association, along with community support of the
architect Alan Tufts of Siciliano Landscaping for the generous donation of
School Operations team.
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