Bayside Middle School

The Cool It! - Climate Leadership Training is generously sponsored by the District of Central Saanich and is offered FREE for grade 4-7 classes in Central Saanich

Our training consists of two components: an interactive virtual workshop and a take-home challenge for students.

Interactive virtual workshop

Experienced Environmental Educators facilitate a 60-minute, interactive workshop (delivered via video conferencing), which will equip your students with the skills and enthusiasm to learn more about climate change and undertake new actions at school, home and in their communities. 

Take-home climate challenge

Our 4-week take home activity, the Cool It! Climate Challenge Card, encourages students to work with their families to reduce their carbon footprint at home and learn more about local and provincial responses to climate change. The winning class and top students in each area will receive prizes for their amazing efforts. We also provide lots of supporting materials, tools and information for every action on our Challenge Card so that the whole class can work through actions and exercises together over the course of the month.

Adapting to classroom changes

Our Environmental Educators can confidently deliver the training remotely via virtual conferencing technology. We have successfully delivered over 80 online workshops via virtual conferencing technology in classrooms across BC during Spring and Fall 2020.

We are happy to work directly with you to adapt any elements of the training or our delivery approach to meet the specific physical distancing and technology requirements of your school and classroom.

Sign up now!

We are taking workshop bookings for the spring semester. If you would like to reserve a spot, please fill out this short booking form and we will connect you with one of our highly experienced Environmental Educators. If you can't (or don't want to) access the form - you can provide your class' information to me directly by responding to this email with:

• Your name, school and year-level

• Date and time preferences for workshop delivery

• The virtual conferencing technology available for your classroom

We have very limited availability left for our 2020/21 program. Workshops are booked on a first come basis so if you are interested, I encourage you to get in quick!

If you have any questions at all about the program, bookings or virtual conferencing and our broader response to COVID-19 please do not hesitate to contact me directly.

Kind regards,