Spring is here! After a two week break, the learners jumped into term 3 with enthusiasm and many fresh inquiry ideas.
Announcements
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 VISII Bioblitz challenge: Charlie, Ryland, Tashen, and Liv! You can check out all the iNaturalist observations made by students and staff over the years here.
Seminar Highlights
This month, students learned about the usual wide breadth of topics, including:
- How weather works, and why severe weather occurs
- Climate Change
- The Haida Nation
- Supporting local businesses, and creating a consumer’s guide
- Entrepreneurship
- Beeswax candle making workshop
- Miniature painting workshop
- Resistance movements during WWII
- The Canadian Federal Election
- Zine making workshop
- The Haida
- Medical History
- Mining in BC
- Endemic Species
- Budgeting
- And many more!
Guest speaker highlights included folks from Ocean Networks Canada, the UVIC History Department, the Canadian Armed Forces, the City of Victoria, and more.
Earthspring
With our much-anticipated return to Earthspring, the learners got the chance to learn skills such as mapmaking, plant and bird identification, making fire with a bow drill, and go on hikes.
Field Trips
Students had the opportunity to take field trips to Willows Beach, Beacon Hill Park, PKOLS, Wildplay, and Commonwealth Pool!
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