Each year, our 5th Grade Crew heads to Balarat Outdoor Education for an overnight excursion that immerses students and teachers in a 750-acre mountain environment located near Jamestown, CO. This year’s trip included hands-on discovery, navigating nature trails, and bonding as a crew.
Outdoor learning is core to Shoemaker's curriculum, turning the natural world into an active classroom where concepts turn into experiences. Research shows that when students build, explore, and solve real-world problems together outside traditional walls, they gain independence and develop stronger ownership of their learning.