Labs & Facilities

 

 

Strength and Conditioning Coach Lawrence Wynn became Gilmour's Head Coach in the summer of 2022, when he joined us from from Archbishop Hoban High School, where he spent six years. Coach Wynn earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise science from the University of Akron. He is passionate about developing the whole person and wants to give student- athletes the tools they need to become better athletes and even better people by the time they graduate.

Coach Wynn believes in creating a welcoming environment, saying "The weight room is the one place where everyone is accepted and share a common goal and that is to get better.”

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Before it was a school, Gilmour Academy’s 144-acre campus was originally part of the Drury family’s property called Cedar Hill Farm. View historical photos from the 1930s. Our 2,500-square-foot garden offers students the opportunity to get their hands dirty and get in touch with Gilmour’s ‘roots!’

 

Lower School classroom gardeners will grow starter plants for the Giving Garden, manage the habitat for local pollinators, including bees and monarch butterflies, and create solutions for low-lying wet areas around campus with rain gardens. Upper School students will run the “Giving Garden,” which will grow fresh vegetables to be donated to local food pantries to help alleviate food deserts in Cleveland.

 

Twelve raised beds and six elevated planters will engage students in out-of-the-box, hands-on learning through interdisciplinary-minded plantings (e.g. dyes for art and Three Sisters for history), scientific investigation opportunities and potential research collaborations with local institutions.

The greenhouse lies nestled near the Lower School, the home base for a variety of garden activities. Potting soil and seeds provide starters for the Giving Garden and greens for the chickens. Students help plant the raised beds, which grow vegetables to be distributed to surrounding communities in need of fresh produce. The building also houses all things needed for beekeeping, such as protective gear and hive box necessities. It is also a field station full of science equipment for nature exploration, including microscopes, magnifiers, field guides and water and soil testing kits and tools.

Another Cedar Hill Farm Project, students at the Lower School will tend to the Gilmour Girls—a coop of heritage breed hens—with the hope of gathering their colorful eggs (blue, brown and green) and perhaps learning a bit about animal husbandry and the value of retaining genetic diversity in domesticated animals.

Busy hives of Italian bees provide pollinators for the Giving Garden and beyond, as well as golden honey for everyone's enjoyment. The newly planted Pollinator Garden will support these and other important local native pollinators as well.

The third graders raise rainbow trout in their classrooms. They are responsible for testing the water chemistry daily, cleaning the tank weekly and feeding the trout. The class releases the fish into the Chagrin River, their natural habitat, in the spring.