During Spring Adventures, EPS classrooms expand to cover thousands of miles. A time to break up the routine, embrace different learning styles, relax a little, and laugh with friends, students see firsthand how much fun experiential learning can be.
Our Middle School Spring Adventures week sees each grade-level off on a trip that connects their classroom learning to the outside world. Classmates bond as a group and individuals are challenged with the experience of new things. Through interaction with a larger world, students learn things about their own selves they never knew they had in them.
While trips may vary somewhat from year to year, these trips are often staples of the Middle School experience:
 5th grade: Our fifth graders travel to Camp Orkila in the San Juans for a week of outdoor challenge, PacificNorthwest cultural and ecological study, and fun.
 6th grade: For many years, Eastside Prep 6th graders have been enjoying a week of sailing, learning to captain, navigate, set and handle the sails, and run science experiments off of the bow. In small groups, students plan, cook, and clean up the meals for the week and camp out both in the boat and on shore.
 7th grade: After drama and theatre classes in school and reading plays in their English class, 7th graders head to the Ashland, OR, Shakespeare Festival, where they watch plays and participate in workshops on everything from stage makeup to stage combat.
 8th grade: The 8th grade experience challenges our oldest Middle School students in outdoor leadership. 8th graders participate on an Outward Bound trip in the Pacific Northwest that usually includes backpacking, rock-climbing, and other fun outdoor activities.
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