May 12, 2023 | Press Release
READING IN NATURE—Students get a first look at the newly posted storybook pages for this year’s StoryWalk at the Conejo Valley Botanic Garden. The event runs through May 14. Courtesy photo Bridges Charter School is taking a different path when it comes to...
May 12, 2023 | Press Release
On Sept. 16, 2022, I submitted a letter to the editor titled “Unhappy school experience,” which was published in The Acorn. I received a lot of comments from friends, family and neighbors praising the honesty of the letter. Since then, my granddaughter...
May 12, 2023 | Press Release
A Thousand Oaks charter school takes pride in students’ individuality and embraces the arts as a critical pathway to knowledge. Bridges has about 380 students in grades K-8. Each year, teachers assign “passion projects” for students in grades six, seven and eight. The...
May 12, 2023 | Press Release
HANDFULS OF PROMISE – Fourth- and fifth-graders at Bridges Charter School hold packets of California poppy seeds. The students put together 1,000 packets of seeds and handed them out in the community to help spread the growth of the colorful flowers after the...
Aug 27, 2022 | Press Release
Residents of Thousand Oaks have given the city a thousand good wishes. They came in the form of origami cranes via nimble hands young and old. The staff at Newbury Park Library, knowing the building would be getting a fresh coat of paint along with a new roof and some...
Aug 27, 2022 | Press Release
The board of Bridges Charter School has selected a new executive director. Kelly Simon, who currently heads up the writing center at Azusa Pacific University, was picked earlier this month from a field of 17 candidates to lead the K-8 school, one of three charters in...