Trips
Students at Academe of the Oaks go on a variety of exciting and educational trips throughout their school career, presenting them with opportunities to form strong bonds, explore new things and help their local and global communities.
The Start-of-Year Trip
Each school year at Academe begins with a trip to Tennesee, where students can get to know one another as they hike, climb ropes courses, swim and even go whitewater rafting.
The Ninth Grade Southeastern Cultures Trip
Ninth graders learn about various cultures that lived and still live here in the Southeast, and they take trips to experience things like panning for gold.
The Tenth Grade Odyssey
In tenth grade students read Homer's Odyssey and then go on a little "Odyssey" of their own, spending three days camping and canoeing.
The Eleventh Grade Monastery Trip
The second half of junior year begins with reading Parzival, and the students take a trip out to a real Trappist monastery in Conyers, GA to experience a life similar to that of the monks and hermits in the story. While there, students perform community service, experience Trappist religious services and take in the gardens and magnificent architecture of the monastery.
The Twelfth Grade Solo Trip
Twelfth grade is all about disovering oneself and one's place in the world, and so while studying transcendentalism the students head out to the woods to "get back to nature" and spend twenty-four hours alone with their thoughts and introspections.
