Trips
Grade 7 Week Without Walls Living Sukhothai Together
Week Without Walls with G7 on November 17-21, 2025, in The rest of the trip kept that same upbeat rhythm. At the
Dinosaur Museum, students became paleontologists for a day: competing and comparing discoveries, identifying and cleaning fossils, and cheering each other on. In the Thai handicraft sessions, they painted ceramic pottery, shirts, and cooked Thai desserts, sharing tools, ideas, and lots of proud “look what I made!” moments. Evenings were all about togetherness too: board games, drama performances, a khantoke dinner with Thai Across the week, participation wasn’t just encouraged - it was dance, and karaoke that turned the function room into a full-on the norm. Every student jumped into every activity, and that spir- celebration. it of inclusion made the experience shine. Whether they were exploring Sukhothai Historical Park on bikes, visiting Wat Si And let’s talk about the weather: absolute dream status. Sunny, Chum and the national museum, or reflecting together at the comfortable, and perfectly matched to the students’ mood. They end of the day, they did it side by side, making sure nobody was were happy, energetic, and so into being together that they left out. Even when schedules split the class into two groups for kept choosing to walk everywhere—even when hotel trams were workshops, the feeling stayed the same: everyone belonged, and available. That says everything, doesn’t it? When students would rather walk as a group than ride, you know they’re having a great everyone contributed. time. One of the biggest highlights was the Organic Agriculture Project. This was hands-on learning at its best - farm tours, gathering Week Without Walls was more than a trip—it was a community duck eggs, planting vegetables, and, most memorably, in motion. G7 showed curiosity, kindness, and a real commitment planting rice seedlings in the mud. And yes, everyone participated. to learning together.Mud, fossils, bikes, and belly laughs—every Rubber boots on (and stuck!), mud splashes, laughter bouncing part of it was shared, and that shared joy is what made the week across the field - students fully embraced the messy, joyful unforgettable. reality of farming. They didn’t just tolerate the mud; they had a blast in it. You could see confidence growing with every (heavy and squishy) step, and the way students encouraged each other made it even better. Sukhothai felt like one of those trips that instantly becomes part of the grade’s shared story. From the moment the group arrived in Sukhothai, you could feel the “we’re in this together” energy. Students moved as a team, looked out for one another, and showed what collaboration really looks like when you’re learning outside the classroom.
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