Passionate Learners.

Our Sixth Graders are in Santa Barbara and vicinity this week; today, they visited Santa Cruz Island, where they experienced the extraordinary California ocean ecosystem.

Seven Arrows’ Oceanography curriculum is about curiosity, courage, connection, and learning to move through uncertainty together.

Hands on Science, where students are observing, questioning, exploring, Surfing, snorkeling and kayaking. Team building exercises and a pilot Digital Storytelling/Filmmaking component for them to capturing their discoveries and share the emotional arch of the week.

“With knowing comes caring, with caring comes hope.”

The first day of school is always a very special moment, but today carried more significance for our community. The students walked through the doors of our new campus in Santa Monica for the first time, and our whole community gathered for a welcoming ceremony: teachers, families, and children giving life to the new classrooms.

There are so many people to thank for this miraculous transformation. The construction team, architects, the trustees behind the scenes, the teachers who came in early to prepare their teaching spaces, to everyone who poured their hearts into this move over the summer. This moment belongs to a community that has gone through a lot in the past few years.

To the BXP landlord team, to the City of Santa Monica and all the inspectors who embraced us, to all our alumni and current community, and to all the new parents who trusted we would start the school on time. This was beyond a team effort.

Like the phoenix, rising from the ashes, our school rises again. Everyone adds a feather to the flight of Seven Arrows Elementary.

Seven Arrows Elementary is proud to celebrate the graduation of our Class of 2026!

This class are a resilient bunch. They were in kindergarten when a globsl pandemic disrupted our lives. They are also all survivors from the Palisades fire last year that tore through our community, including many of their own homes. They moved with us to a temporary campus and again to a new home in Santa Monica, rebuilding community every step of the way. Today, we celebrated who this class became through all of it.

Thank you to our incredible faculty, who gave these students their very best through every challenge. And to the families who held this community together.

A beautiful string quartet, student performers and heartfelt speeches made for a moving ceremony. It was unforgettable.

Congratulations, Class of 2026. We are so proud of you!

As the school year comes to an end, we wrap up one of our favorite year-long projects. Our kindergartners have been visiting different countries and learning about different continents through a wonderfully imaginative curriculum. An opportunity for cultural expression and for growing their sense of wonder for the world.

Capoeira from Brazil 🇧🇷

What happens when 5th graders are given the opportunity to follow their curiosity?

The Proteus Project is a student-driven research and writing experience, and a meaningful milestone for our rising 6th Graders. Each student selects a topic that sparks their interest, explores it deeply, and creates a physical project to bring their learning to life during their culminating presentation.

This year’s topics included Manzanar and Japanese American incarceration, athletic nutrition before, during, and after competition, hairstyles through the ages, and so much more.

From curiosity to research to confident presentation, our 5th Graders impressed us with their creativity, depth of thinking, and ownership of their learning. We are so proud of them!