Blue Mountain WILD School

Our mission is to reconnect our future leaders with the natural world and with themselves. We strive to create a new model of education that focuses on the whole student. We seek to create experiences and learning opportunities to ignite curiosity and passion for learning while developing confidence, resilience and courage in order to empower the changemakers. These are the leaders that will lead their peers and their community to make the world a better place.

WILD stands for Wilderness Integrated Leadership Development.  It is a philosophy born out of a core belief that the greatest learning is found in real life experiences. WILD School is focused on teaching the individual and to foster "the changemaker." We focus on 're-wilding' the students thinking: to be free to formulate new ideas, problem solve and think creatively irrespective of normative and conformative educational standards.  We integrate and go beyond provincial curriculum to develop a program that inspires and ignites curiosity and growth.

Our core program is focused on a four main educational streams and integrating core disciplines within that. We call it OE4: Ecological Education, Outdoor Education, Experiential Education and Leadership Education.  We integrate these streams with the basic core competencies (e.g. Math, Writing, Science, etc.). By doing so, our students are more engaged and more aware of the social and physical world around them. Our students retain more information, are more creative and dynamic thinkers and are passionate about learning.