Chloe Nogreh
Writer '19
Missing a day of school, Great Neck North Community School students go on a traditional trip to Frost Valley. This three day, two night Columbus Day weekend holds the most exciting time for Community School (CS) students and advisors, as they pack their bags ready to have an amazing experience. Community School is a highly selective three-year program for sophomores, juniors, and seniors, and serves as an alternative to the traditional Social Studies/English education. CS has discussion based classes with the main goal to inspire students to be more active, outgoing, individualized, and pursue leadership throughout their learning experiences. After the annual Frost Valley trip, the CS students and advisors feel as if they are a close family, due to the many bonding activities on the trip. The activities resulted in students learning more about each other, and becoming closer and closer, day by day.
Frost Valley has an amazing impact on the Community School students every year because CS students are united into one close-knitted community. “Frost Valley was the ultimate bonding experience. Everyone got closer together and I really got to know everyone in CS. The trip is indescribable, I feel without this trip CS wouldn’t be what it is. I wouldn’t have gotten to know everyone as well as I did without spending the 3 days with them,” remarked sophomore Alison Hope.
Another CS student, sophomore Nicole Victory, describes her amazing and transformative experience during the trip: “The Frost Valley trip was unreal. It was kind of like a whole separate world from Great Neck and from everything in our lives where we could all just be who we are, and we were open to everything and everyone. To just say the trip had an impact on CS doesn’t even begin to cover it. That’s where CS became Community School. Before the trip, I was friends with a bunch of the CSers, I was just friendly with some, a few of them intimidated me because they were so smart and creative, some of them I didn’t really know, but after Frost Valley… we’re family. Every single person in CS can agree without hesitation that Frost Valley is where we became the family that we are.”
In the three days, the meaningful activities created a tight-knit community school, which accomplished the overall goal of the Frost Valley trip. Every CS student got to know one another much better during this year’s heartwarming Frost Valley trip.
Writer '19
Missing a day of school, Great Neck North Community School students go on a traditional trip to Frost Valley. This three day, two night Columbus Day weekend holds the most exciting time for Community School (CS) students and advisors, as they pack their bags ready to have an amazing experience. Community School is a highly selective three-year program for sophomores, juniors, and seniors, and serves as an alternative to the traditional Social Studies/English education. CS has discussion based classes with the main goal to inspire students to be more active, outgoing, individualized, and pursue leadership throughout their learning experiences. After the annual Frost Valley trip, the CS students and advisors feel as if they are a close family, due to the many bonding activities on the trip. The activities resulted in students learning more about each other, and becoming closer and closer, day by day.
Frost Valley has an amazing impact on the Community School students every year because CS students are united into one close-knitted community. “Frost Valley was the ultimate bonding experience. Everyone got closer together and I really got to know everyone in CS. The trip is indescribable, I feel without this trip CS wouldn’t be what it is. I wouldn’t have gotten to know everyone as well as I did without spending the 3 days with them,” remarked sophomore Alison Hope.
Another CS student, sophomore Nicole Victory, describes her amazing and transformative experience during the trip: “The Frost Valley trip was unreal. It was kind of like a whole separate world from Great Neck and from everything in our lives where we could all just be who we are, and we were open to everything and everyone. To just say the trip had an impact on CS doesn’t even begin to cover it. That’s where CS became Community School. Before the trip, I was friends with a bunch of the CSers, I was just friendly with some, a few of them intimidated me because they were so smart and creative, some of them I didn’t really know, but after Frost Valley… we’re family. Every single person in CS can agree without hesitation that Frost Valley is where we became the family that we are.”
In the three days, the meaningful activities created a tight-knit community school, which accomplished the overall goal of the Frost Valley trip. Every CS student got to know one another much better during this year’s heartwarming Frost Valley trip.