The Middle School curriculum also includes activities such as the class camping trips, manners curriculum, gentlemen’s dinners, ski trips, and a variety of other curriculum-based, educational trips that take place on a monthly basis. Field trips are meant to develop outside interests and often to act as an adventure, stretching a student to learn lessons outside the familiar classroom setting. These extracurricular activities, especially the class camping trips and other adventure trips, foster a sense of class unity and provide opportunities for the young adolescent to move beyond the comfortable self.