Guiding Documents

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Information Links

Parry Sound Forest School is proudly registered with the HIGH FIVE® standard, meaning that we are committed to enhancing healthy child development within sport and recreation. We want to ensure that every child in our programs have a positive experience, based on the HIGHFIVE principles.

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This toolkit guides our programs and sets the standards around how to keep children safe while they are playing in the outdoors. Our insurance is based on our adherence to this document.

This discussion paper outlines perceived barriers and sets goals for educators and policy makers as related to outdoor play in Canada.

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This guide is for parents, educators and volunteers alike and explains why this approach to learning is important and the principals and practices behind it.

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Outsideplay.ca is an online tool to help parents and caregivers confidently allow their kids to engage in more outdoor play. 

Here you will find Parry Sound Forest School’s Consent to Exchange Information form. Please email psfsinformation@gmail.com if you’d like a form for NNDSB or SMCDSB.

Here is a great article about Risky Play from CBC’s The Nature of Things.