Charlena’s Gold Award project was inspired by her experience volunteering at the Fiddlehead School. She observed that the school values both being outside and learning through play, but lacked sufficient outdoor space to support that type of learning so she created a playground and outdoor educational spaces for the school.
Charlena developed strong communication, project management, collaboration, and leadership skills as she created an extended outdoor space that is attractive and entertaining for students to play during recess. Working with the first-grade class, an outdoor obstacle course was created. Charlena also created three outdoor classroom areas for daily use. Through her project, Charlena “learned that with a little help and guidance that I can do anything.”
The Fiddlehead School will continue to sustain Charlena’s project and the newly created spaces through ongoing maintenance and continued encouragement of students and teachers to use the spaces daily.