Halton Children’s Water Festival

Welcome to the Halton Children’s Water Festival!

The Halton Children’s Water Festival (HCWF) provides elementary students in grades
2 - 5 with the opportunity to learn about the importance of ground and surface water.

The 2009 Festival will take place from Tuesday, September 29 to Friday, October 2 at Kelso Conservation Area in Milton. This year the HCWF has added 100 more places per day, which means 4,000 children will now be able to attend.

Inquiry, Investigation and Positive Attitudes!

The HCWF combines Ontario curriculum requirements and offers fun, hands-on learning activity centres that are displayed throughout the event in a natural outdoor setting. Over 50 interactive activity centres teach children about water conservation and protection, water health and safety, water science and technology, and water and society.

A look back at the 2008 Halton Children’s Water Festival

Over 3,600 children from grades 2 - 5 had the opportunity to learn about water in a beautiful, natural setting under sunny skies over four days at the 2008 Halton Children’s Water Festival. The participating children learned about one of our most, precious resources, water, at the Festival held from September 23 - 26 at Kelso Conservation Area

Volunteers
Helping to stage the Festival were nearly 700 volunteers who presented activities, helped set up and tear down, delivered lunches and many other aspects of staging the festival. Included amongst the volunteer base are just fewer than 450 high school students who present the activities to the elementary school students. It’s a wonderful opportunity for the high school students to learn about water and develop their presentation skills. The other volunteers were staff from the partner organizations, Conservation Halton, Halton Region, City of Burlington and the Town of Oakville, and the community. List of high schools that volunteered.

Attendance
Of the over 3,600 elementary students who attended the festival:

1,342 were from Burlington
852 from Georgetown and Milton
1,432 from Oakville.
1 school from Mississauga attend
2 homeschooled students

List of elementary schools that participated.

Festival Location

Kelso Conservation Area
5255 Kelso Road
RR 3 Milton, ON
L9T 2X7

Directions:

From Highway 401, take Regional Road 25 north to Campbellville Road; go west to Tremaine Road. Go south until you reach Kelso Road. Turn right to park entrance.
From Dundas Street, take Tremaine Road north to Kelso Road. Turn left to park entrance.


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