Outdoor Education

Apart from athletics, Jesse Remington High School is very involved in outdoor education.  This provides all students with the opportunity to participate in an array of exciting experiences in the great outdoors.  The students are able to see and enjoy God’s creation.

 The creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. Romans 8:21. 

        The outdoor education activities are always changing, in order to provide the students with new and exciting opportunities.  And they also take place in every season, to enjoy the wonderful New England weather.  Some of our activities include hiking, ice skating, ice fishing, riflery, rock climbing, flag football, snowshoeing, beach exploration, golf, tennis, bowling, mountain biking, canoeing and many others.    These activities typically take place on Friday afternoons.

        One outdoor education activity that takes place every year is our three day Horton Center retreat.  They go up North in order to hike one of the Presidential Mountains, and experience the beautiful scenery that the environment provides.

The trip takes place very early on in the school year because its focus is to build the body of students through not just the physical accomplishment of hiking a mountain, but also through worship, and quiet meditation.   The students truly come back energized and ready to face the school year ahead, just as they have learned to face the mountain that stands before them at the Horton Center retreat. 

This year was my first year going up to Horton Center.  I feel that the experience helped to unify the school together, and make us feel comfortable with one another.  Freshmen through Seniors were all together in one group working together.  – Angelina -13