Led by an experienced Forest and Nature School practitioner, the family program offers well-supported outdoor play and learning with experiences of connection with the natural world. This half-day program includes a little hike, a circle time and unstructured play time with mud kitchen and water play, big loose parts for climbing and moving, storybooks and art.
Play-based wanders through the fields and forest with child-centred play, art, storytelling and gentle, scaffolded skill development. Children turning three or four before the end of the year, and independently toileting, are eligible for this half-day program. Families can expect that their little ones will build resilience and life skills through the seasons, through practice communicating with friends, assessing their own safety, and learning through play.
New to the 2026-2027 school year Out to Play offers a Junior and Senior Kindergarten, with a hybrid approach that includes a month by month curriculum with educator-led literacy, math and science threads embedded in outdoor learning and play. Intended to build an engaged love for learning this program includes both unstructured and purposeful play. With 2-day, 3-day and 5-day registration options for children turning four or five years old in the school year.
Deeply play-based the Fox program offers two play blocks of 1.5 hrs each, daily hikes to familiar nature places, and connected circle time. Unstructured play time includes mud kitchen and water play, big loose parts for climbing and moving, storybooks, art and science provocations. The Fox Program is rooted in trusting the land and trusting children’s play to hold the learning, while educators watch for opportunities to scaffold skills, and support the development of social relationships and communication. Children will develop a relationship with the land through active, self-directed imaginative play, and a kind and safe social experience.
Unhurried child-led and playful days, an introduction to experiential project-based learning and wilderness skill-building including shelter-building, fire-building and cooking over the fire. In the emergent curriculum their ideas help design the year. Past projects have included building bat boxes, writing and performing plays, designing art galleries, preparing chicken coops, building insect hotels and planting vegetable gardens.
Address: 75 Campus Dr, Kemptville, ON K0G 1J0
Distance: 35min South from Out to Play in Nepean/Kanata
