Class trips ain’t what they used to be.
More than two dozen Sydenham School students in Owen Sound are on their way to the Arctic today.
Their grade 7/8 teacher Kate Walsh is helping to chaperone the once in a lifetime adventure that’ll last about a week.
She says the airline tickets alone for this one are 14 hundred dollars a piece but the cost is being picked up by a foundation of retired NHL players.
Walsh says while they’re there — the students will be twinned with local kids from Rankin Inlet who’ll be teaching them everything from igloo building and ice fishing to drum making and story telling.
The group leaves for Toronto this afternoon and flies to Winnipeg.
From there the next stop tomorrow is the Arctic.
Walsh says they’ve been told its unseasonably warm there right now — at about minus 5.