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FKSS Soccer Academy Registration

The Kelsey Soccer Academy is a specialized PHE class with the aim to improve students’ soccer skills, knowledge of the game, and fitness level. Fees are attached that cover the players’ uniform, and also pay for equipment, guest coaches, and presenters who are brought in when available. These fees are payable online at the end of August.

The program is open to Grades 8-12 and students obtain PE credit for their participation. Please contact the teacher sponsor if you have questions about this program

FKSS Equestrian Academy

This uniquely structured academy is designed to fit the needs of various ability levels, disciplines and types of riders. The curriculum allows students to pursue excellence in their discipline as an equestrian as well as develop skills for lifelong learning. This Academy seeks to provide a flexible, personalized approach to education while supporting passions and skills in horse related sports, horse related careers, and post-secondary opportunities.

Students receive 8 credits for this two block program and the cost is $3,300 for the semester.

If you are interested, please contact our current Equestrian Teacher Sponsor

Partnered with Millshaw Meadows.

Email Teacher Sponsor

FKSS Hockey Academy Registration

For the 2026-27 school year, FKSS is partnering with RPM Hockey to offer a first rate hockey academy experience. RPM will be providing personalized instruction that will develop players in both the physical and mental aspects required to excel in hockey. The program, which will run before school in the first semester, will include both on-ice and off-ice components in an inclusive co-ed environment. The cost of the academy for the semester can be paid in full or on a monthly payment plan. You are welcome to contact the FKSS Teacher Sponsor with further questions.

Outdoor Adventure Academy

The Outdoor Adventure Academy at Frances Kelsey Senior Secondary School is open to students in grades 11 and 12. It will provide students with experiential education through participation in a variety of place-based outdoor activities. Students will gain outdoor skills, knowledge, health and wellness benefits, self-confidence, and lifetime memories as they safely work together and engage in an assortment of outdoor adventures. Program highlights include the following planned activities:

Stand Up Paddle Boarding
Essential Wilderness First Aid Training
Cultural, Place Based, and Environmental Stewardship
Indigenous Canoeing
Snowshoeing
Survival and Adventure Skills
Local Hikes
Multi-day Backpacking Trip
Ocean Kayaking

Student Scheduling – The Outdoor Adventure Education Program at FKSS is a full year program and will account for 1 Block in student timetables (1 per semester = 2 blocks over the entire school year). Students will use the block to make up for other classes’ work missed when on out trips. Some activities such as SUP and Kayaking need to be done in smaller groups so ½ the class will participate on different days.

Students will earn a total of 13 credits on completion of the program.

These will be:

Outdoor Education 11 or 12 (4 credits)
Discovering Self in Nature/BAA 11 or 12 (1 credit),
Introduction to Wilderness Survival/BAA 11 and 12 (4 credits each)

Program fees, to pay for gear, transportation, activity registrations, and guides, are $1, 500 per student.

We have an Instagram account with photos from our activities so far this year – @fkss_oaa

FKSS Outdoor Education

Open to students in grades 10-12, Frances Kelsey’s Outdoor Education Program provides students with a unique opportunity to gain a possible “9” course credits through active experiences in and out of the classroom environment. Running in the second semester (Feb – Jun), students will work in the classroom setting two days per week earning 4-credits in one of three Social Studies electives, and three days per week hands on participating in various outdoor activities, including trail building, orienteering, disc golf and hiking. The trail building component of the course will introduce students to trail planning, design, mapping, maintenance, building techniques as well as rural and urban management, ecosystems, and many other areas of study. Disc golf and orienteering are two sports which fit in perfectly with our program, offering students the opportunity to combine fun activities with real-world mapping and navigation skills. For these activities, students will travel throughout lower Vancouver Island visiting various courses and places.

The course will also be linked to the 1-credit Discovering Self in Nature course providing students with experience to wilderness environments through a series of visits to local community parks, trails and sites. Through their exploration of these sites, students will become connected to the living environment that makes up many of the culturally significant places within the Cowichan Valley and beyond.

The 4-credit outdoor component of the course will count as the students Physical and Health Education credit for their given grade year. Each grade will progressively build on the skills learned in the year before. There is no requirement to have taken the course in the previous years to take it again. Students can and are encouraged to
take the course in all three years to maintain and build on their outdoor skills.

Grade 10 = Physical Education 10 & BC First Peoples 12
Grade 11 = Outdoor Education 11 (PE) & Geography 12
Grade 12 = Outdoor Education 12 (PE) & Urban Studies 12

FKSS Musical Theatre

The context of this course is the production of a major Broadway Musical. Through instruction, rehearsal, and the mounting of a full-length musical theatre production, students will learn and practice the skills of the musical theatre genre (acting, singing and dancing). The choir component of this course is embedded into the musical. There is a significant choral portion of a musical production. This course runs in the timetable but has a large number of rehearsals and performances outside of the school day. Students in this production must be prepared to commit to the rehearsal and performance schedules and expect to put in many hours of extra time as the performance date approaches.