1881 Schoolhouse and Grandma’s Place Student Programs - CORRECTION 8 Apr 2025

Important update regarding previous announcement

Archives and Museum has become aware that most Grade 4 teachers will be following the “old” social studies curriculum for the 2025–26 school year.

As a result, in addition to Grade 3, we are extending a final year for Grade 4 classes to attend the 1881 Schoolhouse and Grandma’s Place field trips.

To ensure fairness, due to oversubscribed field trips, schools will only be able to bring either Grade 3 classes or Grade 4 classes, not both.

We appreciate your understanding as we plan for next year's field trips

We've encountered a situation where opening bookings to both Grade 3 and Grade 4 classes has wonderfully increased the number of interested groups! However, our capacity to offer field trip slots remains the same. To ensure fairness and provide opportunities for a wider range of schools across the Division, we've had to make the challenging decision to limit our field trips to one grade level per school.

We recognize this adjustment might be disappointing for some teachers and we want to assure you that this decision was made with the entire Division in mind. It helps prevent schools with a larger number of classes from potentially filling most of the available spaces, allowing more schools the chance to participate in our field trips.