Coastal Kindergarten
Greater Victoria School District
Children in 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 for.
Learning through Play
Stewards of the Environment
Coastal Kindergarten Information Session
If you have further questions about this Information Session, please contact:
Janine Roy, District Principal of Learning Initiatives: 250-475-4156
Registration Information
About James Bay Community School
Email: jamesbay@sd61.bc.ca
Website: www.jamesbaycommunityschool.ca/
Location: 140 Oswego Street, Victoria, BC, Canada
Phone: 250-384-7184