Outdoor elementary school to open in Salmon Arm, B.C.

Elementary school students in Salmon Arm, B.C., will soon have the option of taking their lessons outside, with the opening of a new outdoor learning centre in September.

The North Okanagan-Shuswap school district recently approved the plan based on community desire as well as space and budget considerations.

“Kids would stay there from kindergarten to Grade 6 and they would spend a portion of every day outdoors,” said Ceren Caner, one of the teachers behind the proposal.

“Our capacity to retain information,

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