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WELCOME
BACK!
Staff at the Bill Mason and MacSkimming
Outdoor Education Centres are ready to for another busy year of providing
excellent outdoor experiences to students from across the Ottawa region.
As we do every year, we have updated our existing programs and added
to our program options. This year we have added curriculum-specific
GPS programming for grades 7 and 9. These new programs were tested
with students in the spring of 2009 with results so great, that we
had no choice but to add them permanently to the Bill Mason Centre's
program list. Please be sure to contact our office ASAP to reserve
your field trip. Spaces are already limited.
TD
FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATION DONATE TO THE BILL MASON CENTRE
On
April 18th, 2009, during the grand opening of their new Klondike Crossing
branch in Kanata, TD Canada Trust generously donated a cheque for $5000
on behalf of the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation to the Bill
Mason Outdoor Education Centre. The cheque was presented by Joanne Minkus
(Branch Manager) and Ken Alger (District Vice President) and accepted
by Lynn Scott (OCDSB Chair of the Board of Trustees). This donation
will be used to provide environmental education experiences to the hundreds
of OCDSB students and visitors that attend this unique outdoor education
centre.
GRADE
4 TEACHERS, SIGN UP FOR PROJECT WEBFOOT!
During the fall
of 2009 and the spring of 2010, MacSkimming and Bill Mason Centre will
be again offering the Ducks Unlimited Project Webfoot program to Grade
4 classes.
The Project Webfoot is a wetland educational program
created and funded by Ducks Unlimited to allow Grade 4 educators and
students to learn and experience hands on the importance of local wetlands.
If you sign up, your class will be supplied excellent curriculum resources
on wetland conservation and a ½ day wetland field trip to either
MacSkimming or Bill Mason Outdoor Education Centre.
If you are interested in participating in the Project
Webfoot program, contact Stephanie Walker (Ducks Unlimited Education
Coordinator) at (705) 721-4444 or by email
at s_walker@ducks.ca
Apply now, spaces fill up quickly!
500 TREES PLANTED AT THE BILL
MASON CENTRE
On Friday, April 25, Outdoor Education Centre staff worked
with West Carleton Secondary School staff and students to green their
school grounds. The project to plant 500 native trees on the site was
made possible thanks to a grant from the national Toyota Evergreen Learning
Grounds Program and the efforts of Glenn Turner, Jeff Kaster, and Brenda
Davies. The trees were planted along the border of the WCSS property
and between the recreational fields and the Natural wetland used as
an outdoor "classroom" by the BMC to provide a windbreak and
enhance the existing natural features of the site.
BMC Instructor prepares for planting, Many of the
trees were native white spruce.
(Read
more about the project...)
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