What is a Walking Tour? Following heavy rain and other inclement weather, there is a period during which our campus grounds must recover and are not completely dry enough for anyone to use safely. Our Walking Tours seek to offer a Sports & P.E. alternative to staying indoors, keep everyone active and engaged. Now, we will soon be able to suit up using our reflective vests (provided by École St-Landry) and explore the surroundings of our campus. By sticking to our public spaces such as sidewalks, crosswalks, tennis courts, and streets (as needed), we valorize safety and social accountability at the forefront and throughout each tour (30 mins), while building working knowledge, social accountability, and confidence in our students, neighborhood, and community. When do Walking Tours take place? Walking Tours are not scheduled events, so you will not find them on our School Calendar. Instead, they serve our student body as a back-up plan to each student's regularly scheduled Sports & P.E. class, which is held once weekly (30 mins), on either Tuesday or Wednesday. When polled, students overwhelmingly prefer the outdoors over remaining inside—they are lions, after all. Use the following table to identify your student's teacher and corresponding day on which your student's/students' Sports & P.E. class already takes place. While this table and its content is subject to change, École will make every effort to maintain the accuracy of the following as an example for parents and guardians to reference and plan accordingly. Is participation required? No. You can opt in or opt out anytime. Participation is not required but we encourage it. In order for your student(s) to participate in Walking Tours, you must complete and submit a signed permission slip with the names of each student in your household for whom you are the parent or guardian. In the event we do not receive a permission slip on file for a student, or in the event a parent simply opts out, the student will remain indoors and under the supervision of a teaching assistant who will have a substitute's plan on hand to keep non-participating students physically active and engaged while remaining indoors. Who supervises the participants? Walking Tours are led by our Sports & P.E. teacher, Brian Clary, who has been active with École since the beginning, serving as a consultant, foundation voting member, and now enrichment teacher. Outside of his duties with École, he is also an official coach with USA Roller Sports, making him registered, certified, retrained, and re-certified yearly on safe practices, proper reporting, all requirements, and is recognized as such by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), and the US Center for SafeSport.