Outdoor Education

List of 5 items.

• Outdoor Education: Grades 3-6

  Students in Grades 3 to 6 participate in a thoughtfully designed Outdoor Education program that alternates between overnight trips and year-long outdoor learning experiences.

  Overnight Outdoor Education at Camp Wanakita
  Every other year, students embark on an overnight trip to Camp Wanakita to help students become comfortable away from home while fostering independence and a sense of belonging within the school community. Through activities such as winter sports, team challenges, and group-based exploration, students build confidence, develop teamwork skills, and deepen their appreciation for the beauty of winter.

  Year-Long Outdoor Education Experiences
  In alternating years, students engage in outdoor education spread across the entire school year. They participate in four out-of-city excursion days, where they explore and develop a variety of skills, including:

  • Orienteering and navigation
  • Team building and collaborative problem-solving
  • Creating art inspired by nature
  • Cross-country skiing
  • Practical survival skills

  These excursions provide students with opportunities to connect with nature, develop resilience, and discover new strengths.

• Community Building: Grade 7

  With Grade 7 a key entry point into the RSGC community this trip, to Camp Onondaga in September, has a strong emphasis on community. The focus of this trip has the boys working together and interacting with their new peer group.

• Leadership Building: Grade 8

  The Grade 8s attend Camp Wanakita in February (alongside the Grade 3 to 6 students). The students explore a variety of fun and challenging winter camp activities, and act as leaders to the Grade 5s and 6s, giving the Grade 8 boys an opportunity to explore different leadership approaches and styles, and build on their role as the Junior School’s student leaders. As well, the trip helps strengthen and develop friendships.

• Community Building: Grade 9

  The first week of school each September finds our Grade 9 students at Camp Arowhon. Though many begin the week as strangers, after a week of team-building activities, shared meals and community-building workshops, students return to school with new connections and new and strengthened friendships, as they embark on the next four years of high school.

• Personal Adventure and Leadership Development: Grade 11

  Spent in the mountains of BC in early April at Strathcona Park Lodge on Vancouver Island, the Grade 11 outdoor experience focuses on students recognizing moments when leadership is needed, and the different styles of leadership in varied contexts. The expectation is that each student will come to recognize their own leadership strengths and grow in their confidence in using those skills as they move into their final year, and become senior leaders in the school.