Middle School Study Trips
Our students participate in an overnight study trip each year, allowing them to look outside our school environment to the larger world community. These trips deepen relationships amongst students and teachers through team building and class bonding activities. Further, each trip has direct curricular ties, giving our students an opportunity to experience real-world applications of their classroom studies. Our trips reinforce the school’s core values of cultivating passion, celebrating service, and building community.
Fifth Grade
Fifth graders visit the Marin Headlands
The fifth grade overnight study trip is a 3-day, 2-night outing to the Marin Headlands. Students engage in a rich environmental education program led by the talented educators of the Headlands Institute. Their goal is to inspire personal connections to the natural world and responsible actions to sustain it. This trip complements the fifth grade Earth Science curriculum and offers students an opportunity to study and learn in a beautiful, natural setting as they deepen their understanding of Earth’s systems.
Sixth Grade
Sixth graders become farmers for a week at Live Power Community Farm
Sixth grade classes make an annual trip to Live Power Community Farm to spend four days on a working biodynamic and organic family farm. Students engage in a wide variety of chores including milking cows, shearing sheep, ploughing a field with horses, herding and feeding animals, weeding and/or harvesting crops, and making compost. The trip lays the groundwork for our study of sustainable agricultural practices.
Seventh Grade
Seventh graders investigate Yosemite
Each December, the seventh grade sets off to soak up California’s natural beauty in Yosemite National Park. The Yosemite Institute, a campus of NatureBridge, leads a program that reinforces several aspects of our curriculum including scientific inquiry, changemakers, environmental stewardship, and service learning.
Eighth Grade
Eighth graders distribute food in Los Angeles
The eighth grade takes a week-long service-learning trip to Los Angeles in the fall. Students engage in a range of service work including distributing food, working at rescue missions, and assisting in an after school program. Students also spend an afternoon at the Museum of Tolerance, which compliments their humanities and social emotional health curricula.