Rangeview Sees The World

During the 2010 school year Rangeview’s elective classes will be going to the following countries and islands: Hawaii, France, Ireland, Wales and England. Rangeview’s choir classes will be traveling to Honolulu, Hawaii this June. This seven day trip will consist of the group visiting Honolulu landmarks, beaches, shops and will have a well guided tour around the island. The group will also visit a very important landmark, the Pearl Harbor/ Arizona Memorial site as well as the Polynesian Culture Center and the Bishop Museum. On day five students will spend the day on a “Little Island Tour” which consists of Diamond Head lookout, Hanauma Bay lookout, Halona Point/Blow Hole lookout and Pail lookout.


The next school trip is sponsored by French teacher Madame Boyd, though she is still finalizing plans for the fifteen day or three week summer program trip. The trip itinerary may look like this: fifteen or twenty-two days filled with French culture and tours around Paris, sightseeing, as well as special family stays. Depending on which summer program is purchased the two trips will have a different itinerary.

During the fifteen day summer program the students will experience a family stay with a French family for three days. After returning from their family stays students will spend day eight of their trip taking tours around the city. Days nine to twelve students will visit France’s most renowned chateaux and wine cellar of the Loire, St Malo (famous for it’s pirate history and ramparts), Brittany, Honfleur and the rest of the trip will be sightseeing and shopping in the city.

With the twenty-two day summer program, students will be visiting different parts of Paris, France. The first three days students will visit the city with Madame Boyd before their family stays. Same as the other summer program the students will have a whole day worth of tours around the city. Days thirteen to eighteen, students will visit parts of France such as Vichy, Avignon, Provence, Nice and Chamonix. The last two days will be spent sightseeing monuments and museums.

The final trip is to Ireland, Wales and England which will be sponsored by Ms. Minor and Mr. Riggins in the art department. This eight day trip will be spent mainly in Ireland for six days while the rest of the trip is spent in London. The start of the trip will begin in Killarney and students will meet their tour director. Day three, students will go on a Ring of Kerry excursion. Day four the students will travel from Killarney to Dublin where they will visit Blarney Castle. Day five will be a day worth of sightseeing Dublin landmarks beginning with Phoenix Park, St. Patrick’s Cathedral and a few more sites. Students will also, on this day, take a Dublin City walk, ending the night with a traditional public house dinner.

Day six students will travel from Dublin to North Wales and will visit the Snowdonia National Park. Day seven of the trip students will make another trip in traveling to London they will have a Stratford and sightseeing tour. The same day they will also visit Anne Hathaway’s cottage and Shakespeare’s birth place. Day eight will be a guided London sightseeing tour. Students will visit Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Tower Bridge, Hyde Park and finally St. Paul’s Cathedral ending the night with dinner at the Hard Rock Café. Sounds like all of these trips are a great opportunity for students to experience culture somewhere other than home.