Outdoor Education & Landschool
Outdoor SCIENCE EducatION
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At the Elementary level, Outdoor Science Education also encompasses opportunities to explore through “Going Out” trips and Field Trips as well as the direct experience of the ecology of the child’s bioregion.
Middle School students have opportunities to develop life skills by caring for the animals as well as using hand tools and teamwork to clean, maintain, and beautify our animal enclosures and garden areas. Students have the opportunity to extend their outdoor work through individual studies or apprenticeships.
Landschool

The property is equipped with a 4,000 square-foot lodge, complete with separate sleeping quarters and bathrooms for males and females, a fireplace, and a large kitchen. There is also a covered pavilion, covered porch and fire pit.
Beginning in Elementary, classes make overnight visits to the Landschool. Lower Elementary students spend two days and one night each fall and each spring, while Upper Elementary students spend three days and two nights each fall and each spring. On-site activities include art projects and lessons with naturalists, as well as community building, cooking and hiking opportunities. Not only do these trips provide students with opportunities to learn more about the environment, but they also allow them to gain independence and practice collaboration as students help plan the trip, cook their meals and clean-up and organize the lodge and outdoor areas. Most importantly to the students, Landschool trips are great memory-makers; students gain much in the way of knowledge while bonding with their classmates.
The Middle School's three annual trips to the Landschool are designed to give students meaningful experiences in a natural setting to build community, personal confidence and life skills. Through team building exercises such as hiking the Pinhoti Trail, maintaining trails or meal planning and team cooking for the entire class, students learn to depend on their own inner resources and on those of others. The importance of independence and inter-dependencies on one another are equally emphasized.