Our Program

Grades Taught

1-9

About

At My PATH, we believe learning happens everywhere. We provide students with hands-on experiences to deepen their understanding and make learning fun. With passion comes enthusiasm and positivity. By offering opportunities that fuel a student’s passion, we create a healthy learning environment where every student can share their strengths, talents or gifts.

My PATH is a community partnership program based at Connections for Learning that offers students a diverse blend of health and wellness activities to complement the core academic schedule. My PATH is open to students in Grades 1-9 who meet the program criteria.

The program focuses on these key areas to support the development of healthy, engaged lifelong learners:

Physical Activity (multi-sport, gymnastics, tumbling, fitness, martial arts, dance, outdoor adventure, and recreational activities)
Arts (fine arts, performing arts, photography)
Technology (STEM learning, coding/robotics, construction)
Health Education (Horsemanship, agricultural/farming, digital literacy, financial literacy, citizenship/volunteerism, social emotional learning, cooking/nutrition, personal health)

At My PATH, we believe that students are more able to succeed when they have the support of their teachers and school staff, as well as their family and their community. We focus on providing quality health and wellness programming for students to thrive so they can achieve better outcomes academically, socially, emotionally and physically.

Our Purpose

Our purpose is to prepare students for a lifelong path to good health.

Through community partnerships, My PATH provides purposeful programming designed to promote acceptance of oneself and others, build a better sense of community, foster healthy relationships with peers and adults, encourage healthy behaviours and develop essential life skills.

We further holistic learning by co-creating opportunities with the community for youth to learn and serve in the areas of physical education, art, technology and health, resulting in stronger citizen education and more resilient life-long learners.

Program Pillars

Citizenship

We own our presence in the community by demonstrating our core character values of honesty, integrity, kindness, responsibility, courage, resilience, perserverance, compassion, cooperation, empathy, respect, inclusiveness, gratitude and helpfulness

Community Connection

We engage in our local community to develop the knowledge, skills and values to make a difference
We believe education and community are necessary partners in learning
We believe that learning happens everywhere
We value collaboration and identify cross-curricular learning opportunities

Healthy Body, Healthy Mind, Healthy Spirit

We strive to make healthy choices daily for our body, mind and soul
We value ourselves and others and treat our bodies and minds with care
We practice acceptance, forgiveness and mindfulness
We believe preparation, commitment and perseverance help to achieve our goals
We value our health by embracing device free learning

Learning Through Exploration

We never stop being curious and asking questions
We help each other overcome challenges and learn together
We are open and willing to take risks and try new things
We value a growth mindset approach to learning

Celebrating Success

We know hard work is necessary to pursuing one’s passion and we honour those who demonstrate such dedication
We strive to improve, and we know with failure comes growth
We celebrate all who achieve
We set goals and challenge ourselves to reach our full potential

“If you never try, you will never know.”