CanSkate
Oct-Mar Week Program – 2 Classes per Week – Tuesdays & Thursdays
Days of the Week: Tuesdays & Thursdays
Times: 4:30-5:20pm
First Class: Tue Oct 7, 2025
Christmas Break: Sat Dec 20 to Mon Jan 5
March Break: ** No Classes **
Last Class: Fri Mar 27, 2026
Carnival (End of Year Show): Fri Mar 27, 2026
Invest in a full season of skill development with our comprehensive CanSkate program, running across both the Fall and Winter terms. Conveniently serving families from the Ripley, Lucknow, Wingham, Kincardine, and surrounding communities, this is Skate Canada’s flagship learn-to-skate curriculum. Designed for beginners of all ages, the program delivers a high-energy environment focused entirely on active participation, fun, and fundamental physical literacy.
Our certified professional coaches teach core skating principles in a progressive, sequential manner. Skaters master crucial balance, control, and agility milestones, building a rock-solid foundation that prepares them seamlessly for figure skating, hockey, ringette, or recreational skating. By committing to the full-season block, your skater benefits from steady, uninterrupted instruction, building confidence and tracking visible progress from autumn straight through to the spring.
REGISTRATION NOTES:
– Financial Note: A $62.50 non-refundable annual insurance fee applies to all skaters for the 2025–2026 skating year and is paid once per season.
– Program Structure: This product covers enrollment for both the Fall and Winter blocks of the active skating season.
- A complete series of balance, control and agility skills that will prepare skaters for any ice skating sport or recreational skating.
- Nationally-tested and proven curriculum and delivery methods that guarantee skater success.
- Designed for 90% movement so skaters learn in an active and fun group setting.
- Nationally certified coaches trained specifically in teaching the mechanics and proper technique of skating.
- Coaches are assisted by trained program assistants.
- Ensures a 1:10 coach/program assistant to skater ratio or lower.
- Provides kids with the best foundation for figure skating, hockey, speed skating and ringette.
- Introduces a healthy, lifelong activity at an early age.
- Promotes fun, fitness and participation.
- Some of the best skaters in the world learned to skate with CanSkate including Olympic figure skaters, Olympic speed skaters, men’s and women’s Olympic hockey players and NHL players.
- Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir, Olympic and World ice dance champions.
- Patrick Chan, Olympic medalist and World men’s figure skating champion.
- Ivanie Blondin, Olympic and World long track speed skater.
- Matt Duchene, NHL Colorado Avalanche and Olympic hockey team gold medallist.
- Jeff Skinner, NHL Carolina Hurricanes, NHL Rookie of the Year and former Canadian juvenile men’s figure skating medallist.

