École St-Germain is the latest to join a growing pack of elementary schools that are running “polar bear clubs” to encourage outdoor, year-round play and build resilience among young students during cold snaps.
Winnipeg school divisions typically require recess be held indoors when temperatures plunge below -27 C, with the wind chill, owing to the risk of frostbite and other safety concerns.
While blustery conditions have met that threshold in recent days, hundreds of students across the city were given the option — via special approval from senior administrators — to bundle up and venture out to their snow-covered playgrounds.
“As adults, sometimes we forget how much fun it can be in the cold,” said Cam Johnson, principal of the kindergarten-to-Grade 5 school in River Park South that launched its French immersion version (le club d’ours polaire) this week.
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