Walking Wednesdays at Rouge Valley: Rouge Valley PS: 25 Years of Eco-Literacy

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Rouge Valley PS: 25 Years of Eco-Literacy

Rouge Valley PS recently celebrated her 25th anniversary. In preparation for the celebration, I had the opportunity to delve into the school archives. While doing so, I came across a collection of old Kodachrome slides taken during the very first year of Rouge Valley's existence.

Some of the slides show Rouge Valley staff taking a guided tour through the Rouge Park. Other slides show students going on nature walks and engaging in a variety of activities along the Rouge River.

It's a great feeling to know that we are continuing in a long tradition of place-based education and eco-literacy.

Here are a few slides of staff and students from the 1991-1992 school year:

What are we doing?

Each week students walk through their local community to a meadow on the edge of the Rouge River Valley. These “place based” environment activities are integrated with curriculum areas and meet the Ministry’s environmental policy found in Acting Today, Shaping Tomorrow.

Our philosophy is to engage students through experiential learning and to cover as wide a range of curriculum as possible. Using Walking Wednesdays as a jumping off point, we have covered Ministry curriculum expectations in Science, Social Studies, Mathematics, Language and the Arts.