Adventure Trip:New Hampshire

Informational Meeting: Tuesday, March 4

Middle School Adventure Trip Informational Meeting

Purpose of TripThe purpose of this trip is to provide our

adolescents with a learning opportunity that promotes team building as well as independence (autonomy).

Research shows that adolescents don’t like sight-seeing trips: they want to DO something. This trip will provide “safe risk” and give them an opportunity to try new things.

Separation from parents is part of an adolescent’s work; most of our students come back from these experiences more independent and self-reliant.

PackingEach person is entitled to bring one piece of

luggage, weighing less than 50 lbs with them to check, plus one carry-on and one personal item.

If you want to bring a second bag, please bring $80 ($40 each way). (If your bag is overweight, it costs $50 each way).

We advise carrying your jacket and bringing one full change of clothes plus a toothbrush in your carry-on, as well as an empty water bottle.

What to BringLayers, especially base layer

Two pairs of shoes, at least one waterproof

Gloves and hats

Waterproof outerlayer

Insulation layer

There should not be much opportunity to spend money, except for 1-2 meals. Please do not send a lot. If you want a staff member to hold onto money for a student, please put it in a labeled envelope.

What Not to BringCandy or junk food. Please do not set us up to

be the “bad guys” who need to confiscate and throw away this food.

Students may have gum for the airplane only, but we expect they will dispose of it properly.

Expensive cameras or equipment you don’t want to get damaged.

MedicationsAs indicated by the Nature’s Classroom

paperwork, please send any prescription medications in their original bottles with the child’s name on it. Please only send the amount we will need while we’re gone.

We do not want any students holding on to any medications – all medications need to be given to the staff members when you drop them off.

Travel Day - OutboundPlease wear class shirt, if you have it, at least

one direction – it makes it easier to group up.

Please arrive at CRMA by 4:30 a.m. on Monday, March 17. We need to pull out by 5:00 in order to get to FLL airport and check in on time.

We fly Jet Blue: 8 a.m. Flight 470 to Boston, arriving 11:04 a.m.

If you are taking your own child to the airport PLEASE LET US KNOW and be there by 6 a.m.

Travel Day - OutboundProcedure:

We will stay together to check in to the flight, check luggage and go through security.

Students will NOT be permitted to wander through airport alone. A staff member will be with them.

JetBlue will provide complimentary snacks. However, if your child would like to have an actual breakfast on travel day, please send food or money to purchase at the airport (time permitting) or on the plane.

Travel Day - OutboundStudents will go to the seat assigned by Jet Blue.

Once everyone is settled, and a CRMA staff member gives permission, then seats may be traded.

Students are expected to be well-behaved and polite to everyone they encounter; misbehavior on the plane will result in a permanent seat next to a staff member.

JetBlue has complimentary TVs for every seat. Please bring headphones. We will not be able to monitor what every student is watching, but we expect that students follow their parents’ rules for what is acceptable television, and are considerate of those around them.

Travel Day - OutboundWe will eat lunch on the bus from the

Boston/Logan airport to Sargent Center. Therefore, students will need to either eat a packed lunch or will need to purchase lunch at the airport.

Electronics PolicyStudents will be allowed to have electronics on the bus to

the airport and on the plane.

All phones will be set to airplane mode on the plane.

Once we arrive in Boston, we will ask the students to call their parents to let them know we have arrived. Students without phones will be able to borrow one from a staff member.

At that point, ALL electronics will be collected except regular Kindles and regular Nooks. (Any tablet that is a gaming device will be collected.)

Cameras must be cameras only; no ipod or camera phones.

Contact InformationShould you need to talk to a staff member

during our trip, please call Lucy Golden at 305-878-0331

Sargent Center Number: 603.525.3311 x19

Other Contact MethodShutterfly Share Site

Day GroupsDuring the day, the students will be split into 4

day groups. The groups were designed to create new interactions. Students were deliberately separated from their “best friends” during the day so that they could focus on themselves and not on their socialization.

Each day group will have at least one CRMA staff member, plus leaders from Nature’s Classroom.

Night GroupsAt night, students were put with as many friends

as possible, within their own grade and gender groups. They have been assigned a room and chaperones will be nearby at all times.

Students may only go into their own rooms; no entering a room that was not assigned by you, whether it’s the same or a different gender.

Expected BehaviorsStudents are expected to follow the same rules

that they follow at CRMA with regards to respect for themselves and others, both adults and other students.

While taking “classes,” they are expected to follow classroom rules.

Any behaviors that pose a risk to anyone’s safety will be dealt with immediately, with possible removal from an activity.

Travel Day HomeboundStudents will be given their electronics back at

the Boston airport.

Nature’s classroom is not providing dinner on Friday night. We will provide an opportunity for students to buy dinner, most likely at the airport or on the airplane.

6:55 pm JetBlue Flight 469 to FLL, arriving 10:23

Travel Day - HomeboundBarring delay, our flight to FLL will land at 10:23. The bus

will arrive to pick up at 10:45. We hope to be back at CRMA by 12:00 a.m. Should this time change, we will have the students call you.

Please be on time to pick up your child.

If you decide to pick your child up from the airport, please let Carol Hunnewell know beforehand (nicnac96@bellsouth.net). If enough students are picked up, she may be able to cancel a bus.

If you pick up your child from the airport, please connect with a CRMA staff member before you leave the airport. Otherwise, there will be an unnecessary panic and will delay us leaving the airport.

Left to DoSchool field trip form

Health and permission forms (10 outstanding forms!)

Pay off balance

Pack!

Enjoy!