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Peterborough Children’s Water Festival
We are offering 4 virtual Water Wednesdays through May 2022
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The 19th Annual (and 1st Virtual) Peterborough Children’s Water Festival a huge success in 2021 with 1,458 students tuning in from 77 classes
The Peterborough Children’s Water Festival (PCWF) wrapped up its first virtual, month-long event on May 26th. Over the course of four Water Wednesdays held this May:
1,458 students in grades 2-5 registered with 77 classes from over 25 schools across the region.
This year’s virtual festival included four 40-minute, live, weekly injections of water education presented in online workshops that highlighted the four pillars of the PCWF: Cultural Perspectives, Conservation, Protection, and Science & Technology.
Students were treated to guest appearances from Elder Dorothy Taylor from Curve Lake First Nation, Kawartha World Issues Centre, Otonabee Conservation, OFAH’s Atlantic Salmon Education, the Riverview Park and Zoo Education team, the Waste Water Treatment Plant, and GreenUP’s Wonders of Water Program. The live-streamed festival began each week with a sing along by Glen Caradus, the Paddling Puppeteer.
“In addition to the practical knowledge that students obtained from presentations, I believe the variety of speakers provided the opportunity for students to hear from others who have a passion for water. These experts presented many different aspects of the importance of water. This is valuable because students don’t always get to hear from people who are truly passionate about a cause; this can be the spark to ignite their own passions, and if not a career with water, they see modelled how people make careers of passions.”
Tanya Hunter from Roseneath Public School
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Registration Full!
Peterborough City and County Registration Open for Grade 2&3
Registration Open for ALL PVNCCDSB/ KPR Grade 4&5 classes Registration Full
About Us
The Peterborough Children’s Water Festival (PCWF) is a community event for children in Grade 2 to 5. The PCWF provides students with the opportunity to discover the importance and diversity of water.
The PCWF works in partnership with educators, water quality and quantity specialists, community volunteers, conservation groups, industry and government to create a festival full of activities that are educational and fun for children in grades 2 to 5. Read our 2021 Newsletter
Learning how to ID Benthic Macroinvertebrates
Check out the Highlights from our many years of Water Education!
Support
The Peterborough Children’s Water Festival has been a successful educational event for 19 years thanks to the support of our community partners and local businesses.
Supporters enable us to promote and deliver water education to hundreds of children in Peterborough and the Kawarthas region annually. Support the PCWF
Thanks to our Supporters!
Festival Supporters – $5,000+
Festival Patron – $2,500-$4,999
Festival Benefactor – $1,000-$2,499
Symons Trust Fund for Canadian Studies
Festival Friend – < $1,000
Grant and Emma Murphy
Wayne Stiver
Herb Lang Drilling
Township of Selwyn
In Kind Sponsorship
City of Peterborough
GreenUP
Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board
Otonabee Conservation
Peterborough Utilities Group
Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board
Riverview Park and Zoo
TRACKS
Trent University
We are enormously grateful for the financial and in-kind contributions of local sponsors that support our in-person festival!
Thank you to past and present sponsors who have supported immersive water education! We’re thinking of all of you in these unprecedented times!
Our 2022 Steering Committee are hard at work
City of Peterborough
GreenUp
Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board
Otonabee Conservation
Peterborough Northumberland Victoria and Clarington Catholic District School Board
Peterborough Utilities Group
Riverview Park and Zoo
Trent University
Wayne Stiver, Community Member