​Beginning in September 2022, Lawson Heights School will offer an alternating day kindergarten program and a half-day prekindergarten class that will both focus on nature-based learning.

The new programs will provide learners with indoor and outdoor experiences that nurture emotional, physical, and academic development while fostering curiosity and wonder.

Teachers will share their knowledge and passion with students in a way that promotes knowledge and a caring for the environment and facilitates personal growth through problem solving and adventure.

Nature-based learning focuses on experiences in, about, and for the outdoors. All students will benefit from exploring the curriculum with this lens. This approach to learning includes a range of educational practices that are linked to improved academic achievement, holistic wellness, personal development, and environmental stewardship in students.

These practices include a combination of:

• Outdoor learning experiences;
• Nature-focused inquiry (in and out of the classroom);
• A play-based, nature immersion approach;
• Ecological education
• Indigenous Land-based learning;
• Place-based Learning.

Outdoor and indoor learning environments collectively support child development. Our new programs will support students as they build language and communication skills, learn to co-operate with others, make new friendships, and prepare for future learning in the school environment.

For more information about prekindergarten or kindergarten at Lawson Heights School please contact the school at 306-683-7340 or [email protected].