As a means of providing life experiences and expanding students' horizons, teachers have often taken their classes out into the community. Over the years they've organized a broad range of class trips to places as close to the school as the neighbourhood grocery store or as far away as Europe. The two photographs below show children at nearby sugarbushes learning about the process of making maple syrup.

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School children with teacher sampling pure sap near Orillia, [ca. 1965]
Ministry of Tourism and Recreation
Black and white print
Reference Code: RG 65-35-1, 1-C-2668
Archives of Ontario, I0020865

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Children touring a maple bush, March 7, 1979
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Colour print
Reference Code: RG 16-276-1 79-B64
Archives of Ontario, I0004486

Children looking at globe at the Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, [ca. 1980s]
Ministry of Tourism and Recreation
Reference Code: RG 65-35-2-65.1, slide #1807
Archives of Ontario, I0020884

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