Resource person: Corbin Grynol | corbin@theguelphoutdoorschool.com | 548-398-2769

Location: 733 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON

Description:

Work Skills, Prep for Winter, Know the Land, have fun.

Monday Foxes and Wolves has all the foundational elements of GOS programs.  We engage hands-on skills, nature based challenges, sensory awareness games, and get out on the land and waterscapes outside Guelph.  We track animals, tend fire, make rope from natural fibres we find on the landscape, carve wood, and build shelters.  Learning and development is always invisible, natural, and fun.

Foxes and Wolves has a broader age group, ranging from 7 - 13 years.  While some participants appreciate being grouped along age lines, a number of students & parents have expressed value in mixing ages, a departure in itself from the classroom format and other extra-curricular options.  This aspect offers some important opportunities for kids to take care and learn from each other,  to look up to some, and role model for others.  With the great ratios we keep, staff are able to create smaller groups within the program according to age, interest, ability or energy level.  

Responsive mentorship ensures an experience suited to the individual and group, and meets each individual where they are at.  Art of Questioning flips the normal teaching model on its head, appealing to the inquisitive focus, keen eyes, and curiosity of young people.   This full day option features opening circle, thrilling warm up games that teach, a focused project, time for rest & reflection, snack and free play, with an afternoon that makes time for timelessness: an opportunity for young people to pursue their interests, hone a craft, be themselves.  This could mean tending a fire alone or in a small group, archery, sit spot, or getting out on the land.

As always, the experience is designed to be welcoming & inclusive, emergent & dynamic, safe and yet edgy.  A great place to start at GOS programs.  Hope to see you out there :)

Mandatory membership(s):

• Annual Membership

Available: Full

Price: $486.00 Taxes waived

Required age: 7 - 14 on the day of the activity

Notes: * Drop off is between 8:45am and 9:15am * Pick up is between 3:45 and 4:15pm, at the latest. * If you arrive late (past 9:15am), please escort your child to program and make contact with a staff member before leaving. Please send your child with: - a filled and durable water bottle, snacks and lunch for the day and clothes equal to the weather. Trial Sessions are an option - for up to two (2) weekly sessions.  Simply register, and if the program isn’t a fit, GOS will provide a full refund minus fees for the days attended.  Once a third session is attended, we consider a registration fee to be final for the chosen trimester. Cancellation Policy. Should a cancellation be requested before a program start, we can offer a full refund minus the cost of one day of program to recover administrative fees. After 2 weeks of attendance, commitment to fees is considered final, and GOS is not obligated to offer refunds or credits for that trimester.

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