About

What is Robson Outdoor?

Robson Outdoor is a project at Robson Community School in Castlegar, BC, to use an empty portable foundation and surrounding yard to create an outdoor learning space for the school. The plans include and outdoor classroom space, a school garden, and an outdoor auditorium (using the portable foundations.

This project is being planned by the RCS Parent Advisory Council (PAC) and the Robson Community School Society (RCSS).


About the Blog

The purpose of this blog is to chronicle our process in building an outdoor classroom and garden space for Robson Community School. As we were researching other outdoor school programs we were frustrated with how hard it was to figure out what other schools are up to. What programs they have, what's working well. So I wanted to journal our experiences from the very start in hopes that it will help other school groups looking to do something similar.

We also (and maybe more importantly) set this blog up as a way to communicate with all of the people in our school and community who want to keep up with the project. This blog is a place see where we are and what our vision for the project is.

I'm Hanna Sandvig, and I'll be doing the majority of the blogging and responding to comments and questions. My project partner is Jane Smeltzer, and she should be popping in occasionally to update us on her side of the planning. We're both parents on the PAC at Robson Community School.

This is a parent run blog, not an official school publication :)