Class Trips

A traditional feature of the Country Day program is the overnight trips taken by students and faculty as extensions of academic studies. Juniors and seniors head north to Ashland’s Shakespeare Festival and a visceral experience with the English language at its finest, with an optional whitewater raft trip as a capstone. Ninth graders spend four days on a San Francisco Bay Area excursion and tenth grade students head to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and the American River for whitewater rafting and an outdoor educational experience.

Eighth grade students tour Washington, D.C. and the surrounding area for a week seeped in history, and seventh graders are introduced to one of America’s greatest treasures – Yosemite National Park – in a program led by the Yosemite Institute. Sixth-grade students spend five days in the curriculum-based education program at the Sequoia National Park. Ecology, tide-pool life, marine mammals, daytime nature hikes, and evening speakers comprise the fifth graders’ trip to Marin Headlands. The fourth graders travel back in history when they spend the night camping at Sutter’s Fort.

Younger students confine their traveling to day trips to a variety of near-by sites including The Sacramento Bee, Old Sacramento, the Capitol, museums, factories, local performances, and more.

For High School trip information and forms, please see the annual Back-to-School packet.