French Family Fun Weekends
CPF Alberta hosts three French Family Weekends during the year.
These weekends bring together families with children and youth in French immersion to have a fun filled weekend with activities held in French for the youth and parent only sessions & activities held in English.
Who should attend? Families of French-Second-Language, French Immersion and Francophone students.
- CPF Alberta & NWT is happy to announce that CPF membership is now FREE! Please complete membership before registering for any of our programs. Click HERE to become a member.
- The family weekend is for current CPF members. For our family events, one family member must be a CPF member, however, we encourage everyone over the age of 18 to join in our mission to support French second language learning and become a members!
- Your CPF membership will be confirmed when you register.
We offer opportunities for students 12-18 years of age to be Monitors in training/Monitors or babysitters. Some weekends, like in Jasper, Monitor-in-training courses are offered. . See a past example of the Monitor and Monitor-in-Training opportunity HERE.
What will take place? A fun-filled family weekend full of French and bilingual activities for French and non-French speakers.
Where will everything take place? We have a different location for each of the three events, here in Alberta.
Why should you go? This is an opportunity for your child(ren) to use and practice French outside of school
These events will include:
- 2 nights accommodation
- Breakfast on Saturday & Sunday*
- Saturday morning parents session*
- Dinner & Entertainment on Saturday evening*
- Sociocultural programming for students K-12*
- Sunday morning family activity*
- All taxes and gratuities
Please read our Waiver of Liability & Covid-19 Safety Acknowledgement
Please reach out if you have any questions or concerns cpfab@ab.cpf.ca
*Financial assistance is available. Please contact us directly at cpab@ab.cpf.ca *
Falling into French weekend in Canmore, Alberta
French Family Fun weekend in Jasper, Alberta
This family weekend takes place every year at the end of February/early March in Jasper, Alberta.
Next upcoming weekend is to be held March 7th, 8th & 9th, 2025.
For more information, please click here
Camping en Français weekend - Various locations in Alberta
This family weekend takes place every year during the summer.
Where families get together and camp (bring your own tent, trailer, camper etc.). The location will vary from year to year.
Summer 2025 dates to be determined.