School Programs

Fircom is located on the ancestral, unceded, and traditional territory of the Squamish Nation. We are so grateful to be on this land and are committed to forming new relationships with the land and with members of the Skwxmú7mesh Nation and all other First Peoples.

Fircom School programs: Big Ideas Immersed in Nature

Fircom’s school programs are a unique learning experience founded on the belief that experiential outdoor education is a cornerstone of student development. Camp staff who are passionate about education and the outdoors will collaborate with your school to bring your students out of the classroom and into the great outdoors. Fircom offers a space that encourages imagination, creative exploration and problem solving in the heart of the Howe Sound biosphere, providing a beautiful, unique and biologically diverse natural environment. 

Fircom outdoor school programs are applicable to modern curricular prescribed learning outcomes and best of all, our programs are completely customizable. The program team strives to tailor the program options to fit the needs of each group so that your Fircom School Program experience is seamlessly incorporated into your courses.

Life-lessons and teachable moments are woven into our ridiculously fun programs. Kids will be laughing and high fiving their way to higher levels of learning about both themselves and the world we live in.   

Come give your students and staff a breath of fresh island air. Discover how your class can learn from nature in an up-close and personal way, all while having a blast and being cared for by our diligent staff team.  

please contact us for Available Dates in 2025: info@fircom.Ca

Programs

Fircom School programs are customized based on your school’s desires, prescribed learning objectives and big ideas:  

Classic Camp Fun

Watch your class bond and grow through favorite camp activities like archery, kayaking, hiking, crafts and epic wide games. Fircom balances these fun and direct activities with self-directed exploration and increased understanding of self through transformational experiences of mindfulness in nature. There will be something for each student to get excited about and lots of new stones just waiting to be turned!

Engage with what you Love!

Make part of your Fircom Outdoor School experience about students engaging with content that they are excited by, and diving deep into it with an excited group of peers. Students thrive in a diversity of environments and activities- discover new areas of fascination and growth and come away with new skills and new friends!

Naturalists Gone Wild!

Bring your students from the classroom into nature to cultivate increased cognitive understanding and critical thinking about what's really going on in the world today. Activities can address grade level curricular competencies and content that can be best taught in the great outdoors. Students will fall in love with the land while learning about local conservation and stewardship.

We can work with your students on:  

  • Local coastal and forest ecology

  • Sustainable resource management with our renewable energy demonstrations 

  • Squamish and Environmental history of the Howe Sound/ Atl’katsem biosphere

  • Personal and social responsibility through investigating regional community organization, leadership and social justice issues

  • Ocean exploration through kayaking or big canoe journeys and exploration based activities in the coastal forest.

  • Forming a community of belonging through immersion in Camp Fircom culture

Please email info@fircom.ca to save your date for Fircom Outdoor School, get a quote, and to schedule a meeting with our Waterfront and Program Director, Emily Mikkola.