Children's Water Festival Will Be Held Virtually This May

The Peterborough Children’s Water Festival (PCWF) returns in 2022 for its 2nd virtual festival, adapting delivery to be completely online, once again this May

Photo courtesy of Peterborough Childrens Water Festival.

In its face-to-face format, the PCWF usually attracts between 650 and 800 students per day in grades 2-5 from schools across Peterborough City and County, and beyond. The 2-day festival, usually held at the Riverview Park and Zoo each spring, features over 30 interactive learning centres that provide children with exciting and fun opportunities to explore the concepts of water conservation, water attitudes, technology, protection, and science.

“Again this year, we are excited to host a virtual Peterborough Children’s Water Festival,” shares Patricia Skopelianos, Chair of the PCWF Organizing Committee, “Last year we had overwhelmingly positive feedback from teachers with our virtual platform; we have decided to once again bring the festival to classrooms in a virtual web series over the course of four ‘#WaterWednesdays’ in May.”

Delivery includes four 45-minute, live, weekly sessions of water education featuring local water knowledge keepers and water educators that will bring the magic of the PCWF to classes over the month of May. The online workshop themes are the pillars of the PCWF: Cultural Perspectives, Conservation, Protection, and Science & Technology. By registering, classes can attend all four workshops, and new this year, will receive a classroom kit with resources to support student learning.

This year’s festival is available to 100 classes of grade 2-5 online and in-person classes across Peterborough city and county, with virtual protocols approved by the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic School Board and the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board.

Registration is now open. Teachers can register their classes at PCWF.net. Teachers are also encouraged to connect with the PCWF’s array of great online resources, with more being added in May, even if their class is unable to attend the live-streamed festival.

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