Lax Kxeen Elementary plans to expand outdoor learning structure

Prince Rupert’s Lax Kxeen Elementary School is hoping to expand their newly-constructed outdoor classroom to further promote active learning.

With funding from the Prince Rupert Port Authority, an outdoor classroom was completed at the school back in September. Now, Principle Tania Murray says that the school is already looking to expand on the building.

Along with essentials like portable whiteboards, tables, and chairs, Murray also hopes to build structures like a musical wall, garden beds, and a mud kitchen.

Murray hopes that these additions will add more opportunities for students to learn in a hands on way, adding that not every student can thrive sitting at a desk.

The first phase of this project consisted of having the gazebo-like structure installed, which features soft rubber flooring, steel structuring and a sunlight in the top.

That project cost a total of $82,000, with $40,000 coming from the Port Authority’s Community Investment Fund. Murray says that the rest of the funding came from fundraising done by the Parent Advisory Council of School District 52.

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