BC Field Trips Blog
9th Annual Field Trip Fair - REGISTER NOW
August 29th, 2011
The 9th Annual Field Trip Fair is just around the corner. Science World is hosting The Fair this year and the busy bodies at BC Fieldtrips are quickly pulling together all of the necessary details.
What: 9th Annual Field Trip Fair
Where: Science World, 1455 Quebec St
When: Monday, September 26, 2011 3:00 - 6:00 pm
Funding available for field trip travel to Victoria
October 3rd, 2010
The Provincial Capital Commission has extended the deadline for applications for to their Travel Subsidy Program to November 18, 2010. These funds are meant to support groups from around the province in accessing our provincial capital. Funds from this round of the travel subsidy proogram are for trips taken between February 2011 and June 2011. For more information click here, email elaine.moore@bcpcc.com or call 250-953-8807.
Use the Advanced Search feature of the BC Field Trip website to check out possible trips in Victoria - the Royal BC Museum, Victoria Butterfly Gardens, St. Ann's Academy and many more!
Transportation prize winners
October 3rd, 2010
Thanks to everyone - teachers, student teachers and exhibitors - who attended the 8th Annual BC Field Trip Fair, held September 29, 2009 at the Japanese Canadian National Museum at the Nikkei Centre in Burnaby. 400 teachers met and chatted with more than 100 community based educators to lean about the rich learning opportunities available in our community. At the end of the day, over 1500 students will participate in free field trips, courtesy of our participating field trip sites. Winners of those prizes will be contacted directly by the field trip location.
Congratulations to the following teachers who won transportation prizes for their class at the 8th annual BC Field Trip Fair!
A class set of transit tickets will be making their way to:
- Kerrin Kyllonen, Montgomery Middle School, Coquitlam
- Jesse Marm, Student teacher, SFU
- Julie Luciani, Weir Elementary, Vancouver
- Eleni Harvalias, Maywood Community School, Burnaby
- Jana Connolly, Student teacher, SFU
$200 towards the cost of charter bus transportation will be provided to:
- Mirela Vasilache, Gabrielle-Roy, CSF
- Shannon Woron, Student teacher, Vancouver
- Joy Godwin, Traditional Learning Academy, Surrey
- Cris Ohama, Spectrum, Vancouver
- Helen Carmichael, Carisbrooke, North Vancouver
Enjoy 'taking learning on the road' with your students. We look forward to sharing your stories on the website in the coming months!.
FREE transit October 4-8, 2010
September 6th, 2010
Time to plan your first field trip of the year! Translink is once again supoprting International Walk to School Week by offering free transit for elementary students and secondary students with a valid GoCard the week of October 4-8, 2010. Consider planning a field trip this week to take advantage of FREE transportation - perhaps look at a site outside your fare zone, to maximize the benefit. Help teach your students about the environmental, health and social benefits of transit ridership. Think of it as "Raising a Rider"!
During the Olympics, the Translink initiative TravelSmart to School worked with key schools to increase transit ridership and decrease road congestion during the games. Contact the TravelSmart team to see how your school could get involved. School and teacher interest are essential to ensuring the longevity of the program.
TripEd Transit Pass in the News
March 31st, 2010
The TripEd transit pass intiative - a spin off from the work of BC Field Trips in 2007 - is in the news! How does a $10 annual transit pass for a class sound? Check out the full story in the Vancouver Courier http://www2.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/story.html?id=e7f09177-0f1f....
If you want to see this plan come to fruition, visit the TripEd website - www.triped.info for ways you can help. Individual teachers, parents, PAC's and school districts have taken this on as an important education, environment and equality issue. Add your voice.
Festival of Forestry - free field trip for teachers October 22-25
October 7th, 2009
The Festival of Forestry has an upcoming FREE field trip for teachers October 22-25, 2009. Teachers will participate in a three day tour of the south central portion of the province, exploring the mountain pine beetle epidemic and the impact that the beetles and climate change are having on wildfires in our province. Please see the following web link for details and an online application form.
TripEd - $10 for an annual transit pass for your class? Make it happen!
April 29th, 2009
BC Field Trips is pleased to introduce TripEd, a new initiative to provide a $10 pass to schools, daycares and other community groups to allow them to access Translink for a year! Yes, that's $10 a year for your whole class!
TripEd is a new volunteer group that has emerged this spring in the Lower Mainland and is following up on much of the work of BC Field Trips 2007 Transportation themed Field Trip Fair. In 2007, over 800 people supported better access to transit for field trips.
TripEd needs your help to bring this even bigger goal to fruition. They have already secured the support of the Vancouver School Board and many other groups. Take just a moment to visit their website and sign the petition. This is a well thought out proposal that is gaining momentum!
To launch the project, TripEd will be under the big top at the Vancouver International Children's Festival on Thursday, May14th from 6:30-7:30. Join Fred Penner and a host of others who are supporting 'taking learning on the road' by making transit accessible for school field trips. Be ready to join us in a special version of...
The Wheels on the Bus!
Our field trips mean the world to us,
The world to us, the world to us.
With a TripEd Pass we can take the bus-
All round the towns!
Don't miss this bus!
