Outdoor Learning - Enrichment Pods
Our year-long enrichment program supports your home learning through hands-on, experience-based activities that spark curiosity, creativity, and deeper academic understanding.
Here, learners engage with real-world concepts in ways that are active, creative, and collaborative. Through seasonally inspired enrichment, learners explore key concepts from BC’s curriculum in ways that are tangible, engaging, and memorable.
- Literacy grows through the creation of personalized Explorer’s Field Kits—handcrafted booklets where learners record, reflect, and creatively express what they discover throughout the seasons.
- Math is discovered in patterns, measurements, and real-world problem-solving, from mapping to tracking weather.
- Science is experienced first-hand through exploring ecosystems, studying plant and animal life cycles, and conducting simple experiments outdoors.
- Social Studies connects learners to place and community through mapping, Indigenous perspectives, and stewardship projects.
- Art flows through every season—creating with natural materials, sketching from life, and celebrating self-expression through land-based projects.
During our time together each child will develeop their own Explorer’s Field Kit. A personalized, evolving record of their learning. Woven naturally into each day, this kit captures their discoveries and reflections in many forms: sketches, diagrams, short stories, observations, research notes, poems, and creative projects. It becomes a meaningful way for learners to tell the story of what they’ve explored, offering a tangible, expressive way to document learning.
Our Outdoor learning program is about being immersed in the experience of learning, following questions as they arise, making connections between subjects, and building knowledge through doing. Our approach turns abstract concepts into memorable, real-life encounters that deepen understanding and spark lifelong curiosity.
Each activity is adaptable, allowing learners to participate at their own level and grow with confidence.
Kindergarten & Grades 1 – 2
At this age, curiosity runs wild and that’s exactly where learning begins. Our youngest learners build foundational skills through play, exploration, and hands-on discovery. With gentle guidance and lots of movement, they explore patterns, ask questions, tell stories, and begin connecting ideas in meaningful ways. It’s a joyful, engaging start to academic learning one that nurtures confidence and celebrates each child’s unique way of thinking.
Grades 3 – 4
These learners are full of questions and we welcome them. This age group dives into experiential learning that blends academic depth with active engagement. Whether it’s solving real-world math problems, exploring natural systems, or expressing ideas through art and story, learners connect meaningfully with concepts that matter. We believe academic rigour isn’t about more worksheets, it’s about making learning stick through movement, creativity, and exploration.
Grades 5 – 6
Older learners are ready to take on bigger ideas and our program gives them space to do just that. We offer opportunities for inquiry, collaboration, and reflection, supporting learners as they deepen their understanding across subjects in dynamic, hands-on ways. They might be mapping systems, designing investigations, or documenting their insights in their Explorer’s Field Kits. For kids who think deeply but may not thrive with traditional school methods, this is a space where learning comes to life.
Registration / Enrolment
Spring enrolment is now full!
We are not able to accept any more enrolements or drop in’s for the 2025/26 school year.
Now accepting registration for September 2026.
Spring 2026 Info – Now Full.
Fall 2026 Info
- Four age groups Kindergarten, Grades 1-2, 3-4, and 5-6
- Mondays and/or Wednesdays | Sept 14 – Jun 14 | 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM
- Mondays 26 weeks, Wednesdays 27 weeks
- Location: Camp Caillet – Nanaimo
- Spaces in each group are limited
- Cost: Mondays – Term 1 – $890.50 Term 2 – $890.00 Whole Year $1,781.00
- Cost: Wednesdays – Term 1 – $890.50 Term 2 – $959.00. Whole Year $1,849.50
- TBD if there will be drop in options.
- Payment options: Payment plan, OL funding, IE funding. See payment plan options here