Beyond the Classroom trips provide experiences that create lasting memories for students. 

We start the school year with retreats for upper elementary, Middle School, and Upper School students. Retreats offer opportunities for growth that cannot happen within the four walls of the classroom. Students enjoy team-building games, physical challenges, and chapel meetings devoted to worship and spiritual development.

Extended and overnight excursions provide rich opportunities to build community: cooking and eating together, sharing a cabin and brushing teeth, snoring, and laughing together, and serving one another in a myriad of ways naturally establishes and deepens relationships. Facing fears, snorkeling at night, tackling challenging hikes, braving cliff-jumps or zip lines, and sharing devotions under a canopy of stars—these experiences are worth their weight in gold.

Educational trips culminate after a comprehensive study of a specific subject. These trips offer opportunities to blend content with context and community to develop learners who seek the truth together and treat difference with civility. When we pair experiences with great texts that raise questions about the shared human experience, curiosity and excitement about learning explode, and students’ lives are transformed.