Brantford, Ontario
St. Peters is safe, inclusive, accepting and respectful environment for all students, staff, and parents. As a board and school community, we will work together to promote positive attitudes and behaviour towards each other and the school. St. Peters also believes in the importance of nature in education and childhood development.
Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Elementary School
Burlington, Ontario
Sacred Heart is an Eco-Certified School in Burlington, ON and part of the Halton Catholic School Board. In an effort to create an outdoor learning environment that aligned more closely with their values and approach to education, the school focused on developing a more nature-based play space. The goal was to create a space that allowed them to provide a wider range of sensory experiences and engagement and to create a space that would allow them to extend their classrooms outdoors.
We approached the design of this outdoor space with multiple unique “pods” dedicated to outdoor curriculum, dramatic/imaginative engagement, sand & water / fine-motor-skills and gross-motor development. Care was taken to arrange these pods for seamless flow from one activity to the next. Not only did this increase children’s opportunities to engage with natural elements, but it created visually defined spaces with various behavior settings, ultimately improving the functionality of the space for children and educators.
Red Bank Elementary
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Red Bank Elementary proudly serves PreK (limited seats) and grades Kindergarten thru 5th, with a total enrolment of approximately 600 students in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The mission of Red Bank Elementary is to inspire individuals to be seekers of knowledge, empowering them to be confident and creative builders of their future who have an understanding of the importance nature in learning.
Country Day School
King City, Ontario
At The Country Day School, our mandate is to equip students with what they need to be successful. We are committed to offering top academics, athletics, arts, outdoor ed, leadership skills, and character building opportunities, each as a priority, without compromise.
Dundas Valley Montessori School
Hamilton, Ontario
At Dundas Valley Montessori School we nurture the whole child, and this means creating a community in which the child can feel comfortable. Each child is perceived, understood, and responded to as an individual. They are cared for by the staff, and by the community as a whole, and this allows them the confidence to develop into their own best selves.
Golden Avenue Public School
South Porcupine, Ontario
Golden Avenue Public School continues to provide specialized programming for students with autism, and continues to be a place where”all students can succeed given time and support”. Our playground features a year-round rink with a warm up shack, soccer field with soccer stands, basketball court, running track, baseball diamond, swings, sand boxes, trees, shrubs, benches ad our beautiful outdoor learning space.
Gibson-Neill Memorial Elementary
Fredericton, New Brunswick
At Gibson-Neill Memorial Elementary School we believe that developing strong caring relationships with students is integral to their emotional, academic, physical and social growth. We believe that collaboration with colleagues strengthens our consistent, intentional, and effective instructional and assessment practices.
W. Earle Miller Public School
Timmins, Ontario
W. Earle Miller is a beautiful, single story school located in the northwest end of Timmins which is committed to providing a safe, welcoming learning environment that meets the individual learning needs of all students. “Shaping Our Future” is our motto as well as the foundation for our beliefs and values in how we have created and maintained an inclusive and powerful school culture. High standards for all our academic programs are tempered with a commitment to teaching and role modeling character education through monthly assemblies and extra-curricular activities.
Timmins Centennial Public School
Timmins, Ontario
We strive to provide experiences and learning opportunities reflecting student interests and aptitudes which helps students to develop self-esteem and respect for others in a positive “school family” atmosphere. This interest based learning environment affords children academic, social and personal growth which enables them to fuel their passion for learning.
Bertha Shaw Public School
South Porcupine, Ontario
Welcome to Betha Shaw Public School! Bertha Shaw is a French Immersion school. French Immersion begins in Junior Kindergarten with programming being 100% French until Grade 3. In Grade 3, English is introduced with 40 minute daily classes. In grades 4,5,6, students have 1/2 day in French and 1/2 day in English. The school offers a variety of extra-curricular events and clubs.
Pinecrest Public School
Timmins, Ontario
At Pinecrest Public School we believe that developing strong caring relationships with students is integral to their emotional, academic, physical and social growth. We believe that collaboration with colleagues strengthens our consistent, intentional, and effective instructional and assessment practices.
ACW Tiny Travellers Childcare
St. Catharines, Ontario
When we received a call from A Child’s World regarding an upgrade to their unique Tiny Travellers rooftop play space, we jumped at the opportunity. We were asked to outfit their play space and immediately knew this was a perfect candidate for Early OutClass™ outdoor classrooms, patent pending, surface-mounted learning pods. We brought in a large crane and were able to easily migrate the components up to the roof and outfit the entire play space in less than a day.
Foust Elementary
Greensboro, North Carolina
Foust Elementary School were able to collect a grant opportunity from the North Carolina Outdoor Heritage Advisory Council’s “Go Outside” grant stream. The aim of the grant; to increase student access to the outdoors and allow them to learn in hands-on environments, was ideally-suited to our outdoor classrooms and a slam-dunk when it came to satisfying the council’s requirements.
Foust Elementary is among a growing list of facilities who’ve partnered with regional (and federal) funding initiatives to expand capacity while offering students and educators the opportunity to utilize the outdoors in their everyday curriculum.
École publique Hélène-Gravel
Sudbury, Ontario
“We are very excited about Hélène-Gravel’s new outdoor classroom which will facilitate education about the environment in a living classroom. This initiative is close to our hearts.” Kati McCartney, President of FROSKR who runs an environmental education partnership with École publique Hélène-Gravel, “At FROSKR, protecting the natural environment is at the core of everything we do. This passion started for myself around the same age as the students a Hélène-Gravel. FROSKR, which operates an environmental air quality monitoring station on the school’s property, knows the vital role teachers play in integrating nature and the environment into the curriculum to solve our generation’s greatest environmental challenge, climate change”.
