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Outdoor and Environmental Learning

Environmental and Outdoor Education LogoIn the AMDSB, we are committed to:

 

  • outdoor teaching and learning; and 

  • action for the environment.  

 

It is through spending time outside that we develop ecological literacy and caring attachments to the land. 

 

Knowing the land where we live and learn will help our students and staff develop greater concern and responsibility for the more-than-human world and to become active agents for environmental change.

 

 

Students looking at river

We respect the relationship Indigenous peoples have always had with the land. We acknowledge  that the lands our district occupies are homelands of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee People. We affirm our ongoing commitment to care for these lands.

 

The Avon Maitland District School Board is committed to developing and fostering an ethic of care for the environment in all our staff and students. The AMDSB Environmental Action Plan defines our efforts to connect with the land, take action to preserve and protect the land, and to become community leaders in environmental practices.