Land-Based Learning in 2025-26
Aspen View Public Schools is very excited to announce that 2025-26 Grade 10 students will once again have the opportunity to participate in Land-Based Learning from September 22-26, 2025. EPC students will attend September 22-24, and Boyle, HAK, TCS and Vilna will attend September 24-26. Please save this date on your calendar.
This program will take place at Camp Wright located on Narrow Lake (approx. 25 km south west of Athabasca). The students stay overnight for two nights. Aspen View has arranged for Division staff as well as Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers to assist with outdoor learning activities (canoeing, fish smoking, beading, hunting teachers, nature walks, etc.) during our stay at the camp.
There is no cost associated with this excursion and transportation will be provided by the school. A permission package will come out in the first week of school that will indicate recommended supply lists, activities, and request medical and emergency contact information.
The Land-Based Learning Camp returned to Aspen View Public Schools in the fall of 2024. Grade 10 students from throughout the division spent two nights and parts of three days at Camp Wright on Narrow Lake in Athabasca County, participating in Aspen View’s Indigenous Land Based program. The program was developed to introduce staff and students to an Indigenous paradigm of learning in which they live fully and consciously. It is predicated upon a holistic lifestyle approach, utilizing four quadrants to acquire knowledge: physical, spiritual, cognitive and emotional. Students used the ‘land as text’ as a means for experiential education. Led by Elders and Knowledge Keepers and assisted by school staff members, students authentically experienced Indigenous ways of knowing and being, including Cree language, Indigenous hand games, hunting teachings, outdoor cooking and more!
