Pictured above: Seventh and eighth-grade students hiking in Acadia together this June on their end-of-year class trip.
A tradition at FSP is the end of year class trip for the 7-8 class. It is a tradition that has evolved over our first 15 years. This year, all the seventh and eighth-grade students traveled together to Mount Desert Island. Students stayed together at Camp Beech Cliff, explored Acadia National Park, and assisted the Mount Desert Oceanarium ready for re-opening!
Students shared a few of their highlights from this tradition:
“I liked being able to hang out with my friends all day and not just a regular school day.”
“The place that we stayed at Camp Beech Cliff was really awesome. We did a ropes course together, tried out archery… and the food and chaperones were the best!”
Dareth Law, Spanish Teacher and 7-8 Trip Advisor shared, “The service learning project that students worked on at the Oceanarium was, from my perspective, and that of the Oceanarium staff, a remarkable experience. Students moved trailer loads of boards that were rotted, lining the trails; they loaded wheelbarrows full of branches and brush all over the property from the winter storms; they pruned overhanging branches; they raked pine needles and carried heavy items to different parts of the museum.”
The Mount Desert Oceanarium will host a soft opening on June 27th.