Cascade Christian School
45657 Yale Road
Chilliwack, BC V2P 2N1
Phone: 604.793.7997
Email: office@cascadechristian.ca
We are privileged to meet and learn on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Stó:lō Coast Salish peoples.
GoingPLACES exists to nurture students by developing spiritual, physical, emotional and intellectual growth through place-based learning and understanding their role and responsibility in the larger community.
Place-based education allows students with diverse needs to excel and recognizes that authentic learning must accommodate individual strengths and skills (Chawla & Escalante, 2007; Vander Ark et al., 2020). Research demonstrates that students experience improved levels of memory, reduced inattentiveness, lower levels of depression and stress and increased positive behaviour when students had increased access to nature (Dadvand et al., 2015; Roe & Aspinall, 2011; McCormick, 2017). Increasing student engagement, developing the 21-century competencies of creative thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration requires learning through meaningful connections to the world around them. Supporting faith development and wonder in Creation are critical by-products of place-based learning
We recognize that God has created each of our students uniquely and wonderfully. We seek to create a program where students will recognize and develop their individual God-given strengths and abilities. This will allow them to positively impact the world in which they live.
Through their experiences they will establish a sense of ownership and responsibility for the PLACES they inhabit in the Chilliwack area. Students will recognize that their purpose is to use their hands and feet, hearts and minds to unpack all of the potential learning an outdoor classroom has to offer.
Together we will be inspired and engaged through God’s creation to develop the competencies necessary for flourishing life
To nurture students to develop spiritual, physical, emotional and intellectual growth through place-based learning and to understand their role and responsibility in the larger community
Experiencing wonder in creation
Leadership through collaboration
Learning through a strengths-based approach
Cascade Christian School
45657 Yale Road
Chilliwack, BC V2P 2N1
Phone: 604.793.7997
Email: office@cascadechristian.ca
Chawla, L., & Escalante, M. (2007). Student gains from place-based education.
Fact Sheet: https://www.colorado.edu/cedar/sites/default/files/attached-files/CYE_FactSheet2_Place-Based%20Education_December%202010_0.pdf
Dadvand, P., Nieuwenhuijsen, M., Esnaola, M., Forns, J., Basagana, X., Alvarez-Pedrerol, M., Rivas, I., Lopez-Vicente, M., De Castro Pascual, M., Su, J., Jerrett, M., Querol, X., & Sunyer, J. (2015). Green spaces and cognitive development in primary schoolchildren. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, 7937-7942.
McCormick, R. (2017). Does access to green space impact the mental well-being of children: A systematic review. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 37, 3-7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2017.08.027
Roe, J., & Aspinall, P. (2011). The restorative outcomes of forest school and conventional school in young people with good and poor behaviour. Urban Forestry and Urban Planning, 10, 205-212.
Skoutajan, S. (2012). Defending place-based education. Green Teacher, 97, 34-36.
Vander Ark, T., Liebtag, E., & McClennen, N. (2020). The Power of Place, ASCD
