Treverton Prep’s classroom lessons are often supplemented by practical activities and visits to areas that back-up and expand what they learnt in the schoolroom.
The senior classes in grades six and seven go on excursions beyond the campus, which involve staying over at selected educational areas.
The younger classes enjoy exciting shorter out-of –classroom experiences in the Mooi River environs.
Experiencing nature’s camouflage
During the second term, grade three concentrated on studies about nature.
They also learnt about the importance of rain forests and conservation.
They visited the Treverton Wild Life Area and were fortunate to have Treverton’s Environmental Education Officer Janet Snow as their guide and educator.
In their thank you letters to Mrs Snow they were enthusiastic about the rain forest, the zebras, the vultures swirling high above them and nature’s camouflage.
Down on the farm
The grade four classes completed their classroom learning about farms and farming by visiting a “real-life” working-farm.
They spent the day at Marc and Jeanneanne Wilmot’s farm, Craig Neven. The children watched silage being cut, picked mealies, watched cows getting dipped, walked and “wallowed” in a shallow, beautiful section of the Mooi River, which runs through the farm, and experienced the activities in the dairy as the afternoon milking session went under way. They also had the opportunity to feed the calves and have their fingers sucked!
This was a new experience for many of the children.
Taking to the skies
Grade five expanded their knowledge when acquiring experience in a number of disciplines and applying a many skills on a practical level.
One aspect was studying the principles of flights, they had to apply their knowledge they had acquired in the classroom, and construct their own aeroplanes and carry out test flights.
For many of them it was a period of trial and error until they began to assimilate the basic principles of aero-dynamics.