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Competitions | After School Activities | Sports | Field Trips | Spring Trips | Missions Projects
Throughout the school year Stoneybrooke students participate in a variety of competitions such as:
- Speech Meet
- Spelling Bee
- Math Olympics
Students are selected from their class and grade to represent Stoneybrooke in regional competitions.
Many boys and girls choose to get involved in extra-curricular activities around school such as:
- Cub Scouts
- Daisy Scouts
- Boy and Girl Scouts
- Sign Language Club
- Private music lessons
- Student tutoring
- Chess Club
- Science Adventures
- Dance Class
- Create-a-Book Class
After school sports - Stoneybrooke participates in the Parochial Athletic League and plays other local private schools in our area. Sports and seasons are as follows:
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Boys |
Girls |
Co-Ed |
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Fall |
Flag Football |
Volleyball |
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Winter |
Basketball |
Basketball |
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Spring |
Volleyball |
Softball |
Soccer |
Education takes place outside of our classroom walls also.
Classes take anywhere from three to seven field trips per year depending upon the grade level. Students visit such places as:
- O.C. Performing Arts Center
- Dana Point Tide Pools
- Local Post Offices
- Centennial Farm
- Heritage Park
- Laguna Niguel Courthouse
- Holyland Museum
- Gene Autry Museum
- Tessmann Planetarium
- Laguna Beach Art Museum
- Highway Patrol Facility
- Local Fire Station
- Local Libraries
2nd and 3rd grades - Rawhide Ranch, Bonsal, CA
Second and third grade students get a taste of the "Old West" while
at Rawhide. Boys bunk in one of the circled covered wagons and girls bunk in
the fort. They ride horses in the corral, learn how to care for ranch animals,
and attend classes on pony showmanship, animal husbandry
and trick riding.
4th grade - Sacramento
Fourth graders take a three day tour bus trip to Sacramento where they visit
the State Capitol, old governor's mansion, Old Town Sacramento, the town of
Coloma (Sutter's Mill), and Sutter's Fort among other sites. They then
return home via a flight into John Wayne Airport.
5th grade - Catalina Island Marine Institute
Fifth grade students sail to Catalina Island for three days where they snorkel,
hike in the surrounding hills, and attend indoor and outdoor classes on the
animal and plant life that surround Catalina.
6th grade - Astro Camp
Sixth grade students trek to Astro Camp located outside the town of Idyllwild
in the San Bernardino Mountains where they study the stars and constellations,
shoot bottle rockets, make lunar landers, and study conditions in outer space
for three days.
7th grade - Missions Trip
The 7th grade spring trip is a 3 day service project
which allows our students to serve and minister to those around us. Students
are involved in a variety of service projects including: serving at a food shelter,
collecting food and clothes to provide for the shelter, working at a horse ranch
that ministers to foster children, cleaning the beach, and so much more. The
trip also includes 2 nights of camping in tents, horse back riding, kayaking,
and touring the Long Beach Aquarium. This trip is hosted by Family Excursions
and parents are encouraged to help chaperone. This trip usually takes place
in late April.
8th grade – Washington DC
Every year
the 8th grade students take a week long trip to Washington D.C. to tour our
nation’s capitol. In addition
to all the sights and sounds in the DC area, the trip also includes visiting
Gettysburg, going to a dinner theater, and touring Lancaster, Pennsylvania and
eating dinner in an Amish home. Our trip is hosted by Family Excursions and
usually takes place in late February to early March. There is no "drawing" for
chaperones on this trip. One parent from each family is encouraged to chaperone
the trip so long as there are enough seats on the bus. Chaperones are selected
on a first come basis with those who have turned in their deposit.
- Shoe Drive
- Operation Christmas Child
- Mission Trips
- Classroom Mission Projects
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