Safety: Field Trips
A wide range of field trips, day and overnight, are incorporated into the curriculum and offered throughout the school year. All trips are reviewed by the Division Head and the Director of Safety to ensure the trips are well staffed, itineraries and activities are approved, and that all preparation and programming requirements have been met.
All students are required to have the Field Trip Permission Form signed by their parents or guardian and on file in the appropriate divisional office. This form allows your child to participate in off-campus day-trip activities throughout the academic year. Additional permission forms are required for overnight trips, and will be distributed as needed. OES reserves the right to deny a student's participation in any trip if the Division Head, in consultation with the school counselor and nurse, feels that the student is not physically or emotionally prepared to meet the challenges of the trip and/or may pose a threat to his/her safety and/or the safety of others.
While on school trips, students are expected to adhere to all OES and trip-specific rules. If a trip leader determines that a student has broken the rules of behavior and safety so that s/he merits being sent home from the trip, or if the trip leader determines that a student is too ill or injured to participate in the trip, the parents may be expected to retrieve their child from the trip.
