Field Trips & Week Without Halls

Field trips provide students with valuable educational experiences by extending classroom learning and co-curricular experiences into other areas of daily life. All curricular and co-curricular field trips are assessed for risk by faculty prior to approval, and specific student-to-teacher ratios are followed.

Parents are required to provide Branksome Hall with their daughter’s current health information via the Portal. Students must confirm their agreement with the Code of Conduct to participate in field trips. With the exception of travel for Athletics, parents will be asked to complete a Google Consent Form specific to each trip. Certain field trips require additional forms and/or third-party forms to be completed. The summer forms on the Portal include an additional field trip consent that covers neighbourhood walks (including the walk to Mattamy Athletic Arena on Hockey Day).

Week Without Halls

All Grades 7–11 students participate in Week Without Halls, an experiential learning program during which they travel and work together, addressing curricular and co-curricular themes. For the 2023–24 academic year, the school has partnered with ALIVE Outdoors to provide a week of programming for all Grades 7–11 students that will take place from October 2–5, 2023.

ALIVE contracts with well-established camps that the school is very familiar with, including Cedar Ridge Camp (Grade 7), Camp Timberlane (Grades 8–9) and Camp Arowhon (Grades 10–11).

Grade 12 students remain on campus during this week, and use this time to work on (or complete) Diploma Program-specific tasks, as well as university applications.