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Willowgrove Farm

Willowgrove Farm is located in Stouffville Ontario and is an independent, not-for-profit educational facility with Christian values. Stationed on a campus of 100 acres at 11737 McCowan Road, Willowgrove has offered a number of different opportunities for children and youth since being founded in 1968 by three Mennonite pastors; Glen Brubacher, Emerson McDowell and Nickolas Dick. Willowgrove has a number of outdoor amenities to help assist in educating youth and children, around the property you can find; swimming pools, a baseball diamond, multiple playgrounds, basketball court, soccer felid, a number of pavilions, indoor rock climbing walls, working barns that houses farm animals, a maple syrup shack, trails intended for cross country skiing or snowshoeing, a low ropes course, and buildings intended as classrooms. Willowgrove also owns a piece of land on Fraser Lake, where they offer over night camps for children ages 8-16 during the summer months. Willowgrove farm has had a number of different uses over the years including day camp during the summer months, outdoor education facility, and as a privet Christian school.

Willowgrove Day Camp

Willowgrove offers a day camp for 5 weeks in the summer for youth and children between the ages of 3 and a half to 15, as well as a day camp for the week of March Break, and on PA Days. The Camp’s capacity is between 100 and 150 people, and has a 1:7 ratio of councilors to campers. The camp days start at 9am and end at 4pm and offer campers Red Cross swimming lessons as well as a number of scheduled activities that take advantage of all of the amenities on the property. The camp offers some additional services for parents such as before and after care, bus transportation, one-on-one councilors for campers, and hot lunches for an additional fee.

Outdoor Education Facility

Willowgrove offers a program where classes can bring students to the grounds to explore and learn with hands on experiences. They offer a number of programs that can be customized to the groups needs; some of these programs run year round, some only for a season, with the exclusion of summer since the grounds are used for the day camp. A few of these programs are; outdoors skills, pioneer and native living, farm skills, and leadership and team building.

Willowgrove Primary School

From 1994 to 2010 Willowgrove offered a primary school for students in Junior Kindergarten to Grade 3. WPS was a privately funded school that was part of the Christian school board, Tuition per child ran between $5,300 to $6,700 per student. The school averaged to have 50 students total per year with two classes, a kindergarten and grade one split and a second and third grade split. The curriculum focused on the normal subjects as well as a heavy emphasis for peace making and keeping, students also had the opportunity to have hands on learning with the abundance of teaching tools the grounds had to offer.