Purcell Collegiate

Sunday morning summiting! Kudos to the intrepid trio of students who joined the hike to the top of North Star Mountain at Kimberley Alpine Resort 🥾🙌

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Parent reminder for 2026-27 school-year students: this sale ends on Friday this week. Click below for details! 🎿🏂

Our Early Bird Season Pass Sale is on now, buy before June 19th to get the best prices for this winter.

Don't forget about our new lift, scheduled to open this season! Work is already underway, with completion and opening scheduled for December 2026. The Tamarack Quad Chair will be built on the same alignment as the current Tamarack Double Chair, which will be retired.

https://skikimberley.com/purchase/season-passes/

Click the link below for June 12 edition of Purcell Pulse, our weekly school newsletter 📰👇

https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=d7cf754840b66095ba2f19281&id=e4ee7d2f84

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Final batch of photos from the PCS mindfulness hike in the Kimberley Nature Park Society led by Wildsight Kimberley Cranbrook 🥾

You’ve heard of name that tune? 🤔🎵 How about, find that tree! 🕵️🌲

The highlight of our hike was a sensory awareness exercise in which students were blindfolded and carefully guided to a tree selected for them 🎯

Using only their sense of touch, smell, and spatial awareness, they explored the tree and its surroundings 🧘

After being led away and removing their blindfolds, students were challenged to find “their” tree again 👀

This activity encouraged them to be fully present, engage their senses, and develop a deeper connection with the natural environment 👣

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Learning from the past through the lenses of the Historical Thinking Concepts 💭🕵

Assessing significance, analyzing cause and consequence, examining perspectives, and considering continuity and change to deepen their understanding of the past and its connections to the present is Social Studies at PCS 🌎🎓

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Second batch of photos from the PCS mindfulness hike in the Kimberley Nature Park Society led by Wildsight Kimberley Cranbrook 🧘🥾

On this hike, students experienced:

👣 Grounding
🎨 Painting
🍃 Breathing
🫂 Teamwork

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Fun with physics! 👩‍🔬🤩 This is making science meaningful and engaging 🧠💡

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First batch of photos from the PCS mindfulness hike in the Kimberley Nature Park Society led by Wildsight Kimberley Cranbrook 🧘🥾

Throughout the hike, students participated in a variety of activities designed to promote mindfulness, creativity, teamwork, and connectivity with the natural world 👣🌎

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🙏 Grateful
🧠 Mindful
🎯 Purposeful
🙌 Successful

Preservation as conservation in Outdoor Education class 🦌♻️

PCS students are learning to transform deer skins into traditional hides, a process that requires patience, care, and respect for the animal 🎓

Through each stage of the hide-tanning process, students are gaining hands-on experience with a skill that has sustained communities for generations. From scraping and cleaning the hides to preparing them for softening and preservation, students are learning that meaningful work often takes time, dedication, and attention to detail 👏

This project also provides an opportunity to explore the rich Indigenous traditions and teachings connected to hide tanning, with guidance and support from PCS student Sohketa Lewis of the Ministikwan Lake Cree Nation 🧡

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