Summer Programs

LCS Summer Academy & Programs: Credits, Camp, Community

With 140 years of outdoor education experience, LCS provides programs that leverage expertise in 3 areas: providing challenging and fun academic and recreational opportunities to learn in and through the outdoors; inspiring students in a beautiful natural environment with state-of-the-art facilities located on 315 acres of waterfront campuses; and focussing on community-minded leadership and character education.

Spend every day outdoors—on the water, in the forest, at our farm—learning, making friends, stretching yourself. All programs, excepting the 5-day intensives, offer the opportunity to earn an Ontario Secondary School credit.

Summer Academy & Programs At-A-Glance

Choose Between Six Unique Program Offerings and Over 16 Credits

From Seed to Table: Adventures in Eco-Farming
Learn sustainable farming and great life skills in this hands-on credit course. Plant, build, harvest, and learn in the outdoors.

CREDIT COURSE
Learning Languages through the Outdoors
Strengthen your English fluency while learning to camp, hike and paddle on wilderness adventures.

CREDIT COURSE
Dance Intensive
Build dance and choreography skills while collaborating on dance performances drawn from nature.

5-DAY ENRICHMENT INTENSIVE
Grove Prep Programs
Academic preparation, water sports, leadership activities, and outdoor recreation combined to prepare students for their upcoming academic year.

5-DAY ENRICHMENT INTENSIVE
Blended Courses
Our summer academy program offers blended learning credit courses. Two weeks are spent online, and two weeks are on campus, with classes in the morning and outdoor recreation in the afternoon.

CREDIT COURSES
Online Courses
Our summer program teachers provide students with a terrific remote learning experience based on a world-leading pedagogy of engagement. Students will develop strong relationships with teachers and with each other through our innovative blend of synchronous and non-synchronous learning.

CREDIT COURSES

Safety First: People, Place and Program

All of our work and every decision we make is focused on two essential priorities: Ensuring that we uphold the highest standard of community health and wellbeing; and fulfilling the promise of our mission as a school uniquely committed to challenging and enabling students to reach their individual potential in mind, body and spirit through authentic learning, being outdoors every day and a powerful and embracing sense of community.

Prior to opening in the Fall of 2020, Lakefield College School's Pandemic Safe School Working Group and team worked hard to prepare for the return to school. We have been guided by local, provincial, federal and international guidelines as well as important research, including The Hospital for Sick Children's recommendations for school re-openings in Ontario, COVID-19: Recommendations for School Reopening. and Harvard School of Public Health's report, Schools for Health.

In September, our comprehensive Safety First: People, Place and Program plan, outlining all of our health and safety protocols designed to mitigate the transmission of the virus while maximizing the impact of in-person learning, was endorsed by public health and approved by the Ministry of Ontario.

We are committed and prepared to see all of our summer students on our amazing campus for daily in-person learning health guidelines permitting.