2022年5月29日， 班夫小径学校 举办了我们的首届棋盘游戏活动。在过去的几年里，我们利用学校协会和午餐时间活动费用购买了一系列适合我们K-5年级学生的战略性、有趣的棋盘游戏，并可用英语和法语进行游玩。这些游戏包括Word on the Street Junior、The Mind、Lost Cities、Onitama、Spot It!、Just One、Santorini、Blokus和Dr. Eureka。

在过去的疫情期间，我们错过了一些有价值的领导机会，因此我们利用这个活动的机会让我们的五年级学生担任一些学习的领导者。大约三分之一的五年级学生参加了活动前的一些午餐时间学习会，他们在那里学习了如何玩和教授将在活动中提供的游戏。家庭也可以带上他们自己的游戏，但也鼓励尝试和学习一些提供的游戏。

活动中，学生在教授和支持家庭玩游戏方面做得非常出色，参与者的年龄范围从3岁到80岁以上。这是一个很好的机会，让我们的学生意识到作为专家，他们有能力教授和支持任何年龄段的人。

这次为期三个小时的活动吸引了150多人参与，显示出我们大约330名学生人口对此的浓厚兴趣。家庭有机会认识其他家庭，一起学习和欢笑，参观学校内部（在过去的两年中受到限制），加强家庭的凝聚力，并通过基于游戏的学习获得各种技能。与会者的反馈都非常积极。许多家庭还指出，这次活动为他们介绍了一些他们计划购买回家玩的游戏。

我们为我们的五年级领导者感到非常自豪，并感谢所有参与者帮助使这次愉快的学习活动取得成功。精心选择的棋盘游戏可以成为发展批判性思维技能的极好媒介，同时培养许多其他社交和学术技能。我们期待将来继续这个传统。

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On May 29, 2022, Banff Trail School hosted our inaugural board game event.  Over the past couple of years, we used funds from both our School Society and from lunchtime activity fees to purchase a wide range of strategic, engaging board games that are suitable for our K-5 population, and can be played in both English and French.  These games include Word on the Street Junior, The Mind, Lost Cities, Onitama, Spot It!, Just One, Santorini, Blokus, and Dr. Eureka. 

Having missed out on some valuable leadership opportunities during the course of the pandemic, we also used this event as an opportunity for our Grade 5 students to lead some learning.  About one third of our Grade 5 students attended a number of lunch hour learning sessions leading up to the event, wherein they learned how to play and teach the games that would be available to play at the event.  Families were also welcome to bring along their own games, but encouraged to explore and learn some of the games provided as well. 

At the event, students did a masterful job of teaching and supporting the playing of the games with our families, which ranged in age from 3 to 80+ years old.  It was a great opportunity for our students to experience that they have the capacity, as experts, to teach and support others of any age.

The three-hour event itself drew an attendance of over 150 people, demonstrating strong interest from our student population of approximately 330 students.  Families had the chance to meet other families, learn and laugh together, visit the inside of their school (which has had restricted access for much of two years), bond as a family unit, and learn a myriad of skills through game-based learning.  Feedback was exclusively positive from attendees.  Many families also noted that this event served to introduce them to a few games that they planned to acquire for home play. 

We were very proud of our Grade 5 leaders, and thank all attendees for helping to make this joyful learning event a success.  Well-chosen board games can serve as an excellent conduit for critical thinking skills development, along with many other social and academic skills.  We look forward to continuing this tradition in the years to come.

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