Outdoor Education
By balancing academics, Greenwood College School's students are immersed in the school's Outdoor Education Program and extensive Community Service Program. The founders wanted to create a school with strong academics, while also creating a learning environment in which children are given the opportunity to learn outdoors and a school in which leadership and team work is essential.
Greenwood's outdoor education program includes two trips in the fall and the winter. These two week excursions provides relevance in student learning and it promotes students to want to learn more. The fall program begins the very first day of school and end seven days latter. Grade 7, 8, and 9 students go up to Kilcoo Camp in Minden, Ontario. Grade 10 students go on a canoe trip in Temagami, Ontario. Grade 11 students go on a 10-day sea kayaking, hiking or canoeing trip around Vancouver Island, BC. Grade 12 students go up to Kilcoo Camp to be counsellors for the younger students. With this, Greenwood offers trips to Kenya, Africa, San Isidro Costa Rica, Washington D.C. and various other experiential destinations.
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