Students

Fresh air and free play time are essential breaks for successful learning. Students will have normal outdoor recesses to a windchill of -22 degrees Celsius.  With windchill factors of -23 to -27 degrees Celsius, students will have outdoor recess, and the duration outdoor will be reduced.  When windchill factors are -28 degrees Celsius or lower, students will remain indoors.  

Please review Environment Canada data and winter weather recommendations relating to frostbite and hypothermia

Parents, thank you for your awareness of these practices and supporting the importance of outdoor fresh air free play.  Merci for ensuring that children attend school dressed appropriately with warm mittens, hats, snow pants, winter jackets, boots and scarves. Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! This is why recess matters in winter too!

1. Spending time outside in the winter can lift children’s mood and prevent SAD. Winter depression
2. Spending time outside gives kids vitamin D
3. Kids who spend more time outside are less sick then kids stuck inside.
4. Fresh Air makes kids able to concentrate better
5. Outside is quieter and not as nosy as inside; reducing the stress level for children.
6. Being active outside in active play gives children exercise.
7. Exercise is good for the brain; we get better students
8. Creating friendships and learning social behaviours
9. Preventing Nature Deficit-Disorder; spending time outside connects children with the outside world.
10. Kids who spend time outside in fresh air sleep better; better sleep makes better students.

Excerpt from activekidsclub.com