Grade 7 Trip to Caroline Furnace

Beginning next Wednesday, September 28, grade 7 will spend three days at the Caroline Furnace Retreat Center in Fort Valley, VA. The camp provides heated cabins, dining facilities and meals, showers, a meeting hall, and access to the great outdoors. The students will take part in various outdoor experiences, including a stream study, hiking, a challenge course, blind walk, and canoeing on the Shenandoah River. Over the last 46 years, the IS has designed this trip to help students build self-confidence, strengthen their sense of community and caring spirit, develop teamwork skills, learn important lessons outside the traditional classroom, and appreciate the natural world.

 

Students should plan to arrive on campus by 8:15 am on September 28. They will return to Trinity United Methodist Church on Friday, September 30, around 4:00 pm. Parents should pick their child up from Trinity promptly; students who are not picked up will be returned to campus to take the late bus home. (In that case, a transportation change should be submitted through SchoolPass.)