October 26, 2016 at 3:28 p.m.
NCEP opens foreign travel to all RHS students
NCEP opens foreign travel to all RHS students
This new format, called New Cultural Experiences Program, or NCEP for short, will require students to participate in a series of workshops over the course of the next 17 months which will allow Goldsworthy and other chaperones to prepare for the trip and get to know the students.
NCEP's first destination: Ireland and Scotland.
"Thanks to recent school board approval, plans are underway for an NCEP to Ireland and Scotland," explained Goldsworthy. "I attended Carroll College in Waukesha, where we had a program by this very name. It offered several trips during January every year. Even if a student was a business major, he could go on the History Department's trip. So I've modeled this new program on Carroll's."
Informational Meeting
Goldsworthy and travel assistants Beth Bloom and Matt Knott will be holding an informational meeting for NCEP 2018 on Monday, Oct. 31 and Tuesday, Nov. 8 in room 246 at Rhinelander High School beginning at 6 p.m.
"At each meeting, we will provide interested participants with information about the trip, qualifications for participation, costs, and fund-raising," Goldsworthy said. "Parents will also have a chance to ask questions and look over registration material."
"Believe it or not, families can immediately start fundraising using our current Schwan's campaign and Seroogy's sale," notes Goldsworthy. "This trip also goes down in cost as more students sign up."
This will be the fourth trip that the RHS social studies department has sponsored in seven years.
Highlights of 2018 Trip
NCEP 2018 will be the first that offers students a customized itinerary.
"We have worked with the American Council for International Studies, or ACIS, on our last three trips and have been extremely satisfied," notes Goldsworthy. "This 9-day trip will really be a cornucopia of culture. I'm stressing art, music, food, and daily life. ACIS has done an amazing job of meeting my request."
Interactive activities planned include participating in Gaelic Games, taking Irish dance lessons, being "Irish for a Day," and bagpipe lessons.
"I think the Irish for a Day activity will be the most memorable for students," said Goldsworthy. "As part of that activity, we'll wake up bright and early and head to rural Ireland. We'll visit a bog, tour a working farm, experience a sheep dog demonstration, take a bodhran drum lesson, make sugan rope, learn the game of hurling, and bake loaves of quintessential Irish brown broad. We will also enjoy a lunch on the farm."
NCEP 2018 will have overnight stays Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Sight-seeing opportunities will include St. Patrick's Cathedral, Trinity College, the Giant's Causeway, Dunlice Castle, Stirling Castle, the Scottish National Galleries, and Edinburgh Castle.
"We'll cap our trip off with an evening Edinburgh Old Town Walking Tour," explained Goldsworthy "that will highlight stories of the city's past, both above the streets and in the vaults below!"
Fundraising Available
As with past traveling adventures, Goldsworthy desires to make the trip affordable for families by offering fund-raising opportunities.
"We raised over $20,000 in 2013, over $25,000 for our March 2015 trip, and over $27,000 for our 2016 trip. I'm hopeful we can meet or exceed those numbers for the 2018 trip," she said.
Interested families who are unable to attend the Oct. 31 or Nov. 8 meeting are encouraged to contact Goldsworthy at 715-365-9500 x8246 or at [email protected] for more information.
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