Many important lessons come from outside the four walls of a classroom.
Through Forest School, field trips, and real-world situations, Trū strives to awaken children's sense of curiosity about the community around them.
The world is a place for learning, and in Silicon Valley the world is right there around us. At Forest School children make regular trips to a natural setting to develop skills in problem solving and ecological awareness. We hold frequent field trips and invite guest instructors to deepen the level of our students’ understanding through practical knowledge. These visits and perspective and sensory experience that cannot be achieved so easily inside a classroom.
The teaching staff collaborates each year to develop 8-10 excursions relevant to the thematic study of that year. Activities have included visiting the fire station as part of a neighborhood study, exploring the physical suspension dynamics of the Golden Gate Bridge, planting wildflowers at a local park to strengthen bee populations, and seeing the origins of technology at the Computer History Museum.
Parents often volunteer to accompany us on these explorations, which can become memorable moments out of the year, crystallizing and reinforcing the knowledge students gain from classroom reading and instruction. For us, school is a gateway to a larger world.
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