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Grade 5 Action Pass

The Grade 5 Action Pass gives Durham Region grade 5 students:

• free public swimming
• free public skating
• some free drop-in programs

Use the pass as many times as you want from September 2012 to August 31, 2013.

Check with your local recreation centres as programs vary by location.

How to Get It Where to Use It Why Grade 5 Partners

How can students get their Grade 5 Action Pass?

Print a Grade 5 Action Pass Postcard!

Grade 5 students with an adult need to:

Take a Grade 5 Action Pass postcard to their local participating municipal recreation centre or Durham Family YMCA.  Click here to see who is participating!

• Bring proof of their address and date of birth.
• Students registering in Uxbridge, and in Scugog must also provide a current photo (1 inch by 1.5 inch).
• Students registering in Pickering, Ajax, Whitby, Oshawa and Clarington will have their photo taken at the recreation centre for their pass.
• Uxbridge students must register at Uxpool.
• Brock students who would like to have a Grade 5 Action Pass will have their picture taken in their classroom. Pictures will be taken and the passes will be created by the Brock Physical Activity Network.

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Where can students use their Grade 5 Action Pass?

The Grade 5 Action Pass can be used at:

• Town of Ajax - public swimming, public skating
• Township of Brock - public skating
• Municipality of Clarington - public swimming, public skating
• City of Oshawa - public swimming, public skating
• City of Pickering - public swimming, public skating
• Township of Scugog - public swimming, public skating
• Township of Uxbridge - public swimming, public skating
• Town of Whitby - public swimming, public skating
• Durham Family YMCA - one year child membership
• Durham College/UOIT Campus Ice Centre - public skating

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Why Grade 5 students?

• In Canada, 93% of children and youth are not physically active for 60 minutes each day.

• Children and youth (5-17 years) need 60 minutes and up to several hours of physical activity each day.  Examples include: swimming and skating.

• Being physically active:
• Helps children focus
• Improves learning
• Helps children feel good about themselves
• Helps children make new friends
• Lowers the risk of chronic diseases such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, obesity, depression and some cancers

• If children - especially girls - are active by age 10 they are more likely to stay active as adults.

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Who supports the Grade 5 Action Pass?

The Grade 5 Action Pass is supported by: