Thursdays
Grades 3 – 5
Fall 2025 Dates:
Sept. 4, 11, 18, 25
Oct. 9, 16, 23, 30
Nov. 13, 20
Dec. 4, 11, 18
Jan. 8, 15, 22, 29
BECOME A JUNIOR OUTDOOR HERO WITH WILDERNESS KNOW-HOW!!
Students will learn to manage outdoor challenges, including insect bites, snake bites, and poisonous plants, alongside skills to use while hiking, map reading, compass use, and identifying animal tracks and wildlife encounters. They’ll also master survival techniques such as splint setting, tourniquet use, water purification, hypothermia care, and emergency banana use, additionally, they’ll cover how to respond to severe weather like tornadoes, hurricanes, and wildfires, and how to signal for help.
Fee Transparency
For transparency, Aurora Skills has elected to provide a breakdown of class/program fees to show the split between the program base cost and the PS6 School administrative costs. The administrative cost is not a new cost; it has always been there baked into the overall program cost. We are now happy share with our community the breakdown in the interest of transparency.
Program base cost
The base cost for the Wilderness Medicine program is $835 per student per semester.
PS6 Afterschool administrative fee
PS6 Afterschool programs also require access to the PS6 building, facilities, security, and custodianship; nursing coverage until 4PM; and ongoing facilitation and coordination across functions easily seen (like late pick-up on days when you need it) and back-office, no-spotlight work (like paying out city permits).
PS6 Afterschool Administrative fee (includes nursing, permits, and coordination is – $160 per child per semester.
In view of the above, the total cost per child per semester is:
(a) Wilderness Medicine base cost – $835.00
(b) PS6 Administrative fee – $160.00
Total – $995.00
Refund Policy
Aurora Skills may issue pro-rated refunds upon request, minus the cost of any classes that took place before the refund request. Refund requests must be submitted by September 20, 2025.
Refunds will incur deductions for the cost of the classes that occurred prior to the request, plus a 4% bank processing fee of the total amount for the class in which the refund was requested.