Electives 2019
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Grade 3 to 8 Students

Snow Valley
Snowboarding, Skiing, Tubing

Captive Kids Escape Rooms
Woodbridge

Big Top School of Circus Arts (Newmarket)

Arts
at Lake Wilcox

Air Riderz
Trampoline & Rock Climbing and Co-operative games

Snow Valley is Ontario's family winter resort offering great outdoor recreation for our students. It is the perfect place for our students to enjoy the outdoors with skiing, snowboarding and snow tubing. With 19 different trails and 9 lifts, there is plenty of variety for the students and many degrees of difficulty from beginner to expert for the skier or snowboarder. All students must take a lesson to obtain a skill ticket which enables them to go on the different levels of hills at Snow Valley. Bring your own lunch or purchase a lunch from the snack bar.
Snow Valley offers Ontario's best tubing, no experience necessary and it’s great for the entire family. It's a blast and a half!
All students and adults MUST wear a helmet which is provided.
Skiing/Boarding: $44.00 per student
Price includes: lift ticket, ski rentals, lesson, helmet and bus.
Tubing: $38.00 per student
Price includes: lift ticket, helmet and bus.
The bus leaves the school at 7:30 am
The bus returns to the school at 4:00 pm
This elective is limited to 220 students

Are you good at solving puzzles, do you like a challenge? Try something new at these exciting Escape Rooms. Choose from two different escape attempts. You will have 50 minutes to find the solutions to the puzzles and escape.
Mr. Moody’s Ghost
The infamous thief Mr. Moody has stolen a dinosaur egg. Your team is determined to find it and finally capture Mr. Moody. You believe that it is hidden in the haunted Moody estate. The ghost that lives in the house will help you, but only if you can learn his name and set him free. You must hurry though, the clock is ticking and Mr. Moody is coming home!
Pieces of Eight
Your band of pirates have broken onto Blackbeard’s ship to steal his treasure map. The evil captain, has imprisoned you and your mates in the belly of his ship. You must escape Blackbeard’s sinking ship and find the pieces to his treasure map. You can escape and claim his fortune but time is running out!
The Witch
You are a group of adventurers who have come across a small and quiet village. But something is wrong. Crops won’t grow, flowers are wilting and the cows are meowing. This village is cursed. The villagers suspect that the local fortune teller is involved. You hike through the woods to her home, but what is waiting for you inside?
Students travel to Captive Kids by school bus. Please pack a nut free lunch. No spending money is necessary.
The cost of this captive day is $50.00 per student.
Check out their website at:
www.captivekids.com
This elective is limited to 40 students

Want to try something new and exciting? Exercise doesn’t have to be boring and repetitive, at Big Top you will be introduced to a wide variety of circus activities. While working toward your personal best in a fun group atmosphere you will have the chance to try something new and challenging. Juggling, unicycle, circus wheel, tight wire, trampoline, swinging trapeze, swinging ladder and stilts are some of the things you will have the opportunity to try.
Big Top Circus program is a non-competitive elective so all students learn to achieve results without pressure.
Yurii Nadtotchii, has over 16 years of experience in teaching the circus arts. In addition to this, he has also been a performer with the Moscow Circus and Cirque Du Soleil.
Come dressed to participate by wearing clothes you would feel comfortable wearing in a gym (nothing too baggy). Gym shoes, ballet slippers or socks.
Students will travel to Big Top Circus (located in Newmarket) by school bus. Please pack a nut free lunch with extra drinks and snacks.
You can enjoy this fun filled day for $40.00 per student.
Check their website at:www.bigtopcircusschool.ca
This elective is limited to 40 students

Are you creative and love to make original works of art, then this is the elective for you.
Join Ms. Patenaude on this elective and you will spend the day creating Pompom Perfection.
Students will be choosing colours to create pompoms, then tying the pompoms to
a mesh shape to either create a random design of colour or an interesting pattern of colour.
Be ready to create some amazing designs with a little old pompom.
In the afternoon students will also be creating some Amazing Pompom Pencil Pals.
The Cost per student is $5.00
This elective is limited to 30 students

Do you like sports? Do you like to jump and climb? Then this elective could be for you.
Spend the morning at Lake Wilcox enjoying sports and games in a co-operative, non competitive setting.
Have lunch with your friends then head off to the renowned AIR RIDERZ in Aurora to enjoy wall to wall trampolines, trampoline dodgeball, slam-dunk basket ball, battle beam trapeze, cardio wall, Rubik’s Cube monolith and much, much more. Build developmental skills and self confidence in the one-of-a-kind Climb Zone.
Wow, what a fun day!
Students will bring their own lunch to eat at the school and then leave for Air-Riderz in Aurora by school bus and return before the end of the school day.
You can enjoy this fun filled day for $35.00 per student.
Check their website at:
www.airriderz.com/aurora/
This elective is limited to 40 students.

PAYMENT should be made by using SCHOOL CASH ON-LINE. PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: www.lakewilcox.ps.yrdsb.ca

ELECTIVES ARE ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS.
If electives are putting a financial strain on your household, please call the principal and some assistance may be available.
If the YRDSB school buses are cancelled on Elective day the date will be rescheduled.