Coastal Kindergarten
Begins in Greater Victoria School District September 2014
Children in the Coastal Kindergarten Program will:
- Engage in rich educational experiences that meet the BC Kindergarten curricular outcomes in natural settings
- Discover local neighbourhoods, parks, trails, forested areas and explore aquatic environments
- Explore Aboriginal ways of learning and knowing
- Learn through purposeful exploration and play both outdoors and indoors within the traditional Songhees and Esquimalt Nations and beside the Salish Sea
- Participate in safe, supportive daily physical activity and healthy living
- Foster inquiry skills through carefully crafted experiences that facilitate conceptual, cognitive, and language growth in English and in other languages including Lkwungen vocabulary
- Experience well-planned opportunities that nurture social-emotional learning, self-regulation and positive relationships with teachers and peers
- Learn the importance of environmental stewardship as this outdoor classroom becomes the community for which they are responsible
Event Information
Information Session
If you have further questions about this Information Session, please contact:
Elaine McVie, James Bay Community School Principal, emcvie@sd61.bc.ca 250-384-7184
or
Jeff Mitchell, South Park Family School Principal, jmitchell@sd61.bc.ca. 250-382-3254
When?
Wednesday, Jan 15, 2014, 06:30 PM
Where?
James Bay Community School, 140 Oswego Street, Victoria, BC, Canada
Registration Information
Registration for Coastal Kindergarten is Monday, January 20 beginning at 8 am at both James Bay Community School and South Park Family School:
James Bay Community School
Email: jamesbay@sd61.bc.ca
Website: www.jamesbaycommunityschool.ca/
Location: 140 Oswego Street, Victoria, BC, Canada
Phone: 250-384-7184
South Park Family School
Email: southpark@sd61.bc.ca
Website: www.southparkfamilyschool.ca/
Location: 508 Douglas Street, Victoria, BC, Canada
Phone: 250-382-3254