Spring field trips expand student learning

Posted June 15, 2026

Plymouth School District students enjoyed many field trips this spring. A big thank-you to our families, parent organizations, and other donors who help make these outings possible!

Plymouth High School

• Facilitated Language students and Global Scholars attended World Cinema Day on April 10 in Madison.
• Business students participated in the UW-Madison Accounting Case Competition on April 10.
• Technology education students went to Field Day at Steiner Electric on April 17.
• Business students attended UW-Whitewater Explore Accounting Day on April 17.
• The Softball team played games and went sightseeing April 17-19 in the Chicago area.
• PHS band members attended a Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra concert May 16.
• Physics students studied the physics of roller coasters at Six Flags Great America on May 20.
• The Advanced Placement History class visited Plymouth Historical Museum in May.
• Twelve students and two chaperones left June 4 to complete an exchange with our sister school in Karben, Germany. Participants are staying with host families and will visit Munich and Rothenburg before returning June 22.

Riverview Middle School

• 5th-graders attended a PHS Band presentation April 8 to learn about the various instruments available to them.
• The 7th- and 8th-Grade Choirs attended the Lakeland Choir Festival at the end of April. Students sang three selections and worked with an adjudicator, using the feedback to perform a better community concert in May. 
• A group of 7th-graders attended the Arts and Creativity Retreat held April 28 at Rahr Memorial School Forest. Participants at the event, hosted by the GT Consortium of CESA 7, could choose from the following sessions: Cartooning and Comics, Character Development in Creative Writing, Papermaking, and Drama and Improv with four PHS drama students (Sophia Okoroma, Johnathon Riley, Zoey Dobbertin, and Addison Arnold).
• 6th-graders visited the PHS greenhouse May 15 for some hands-on activities.
• Riverview band members attended a Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra concert May 16.
• The 8th-Grade Band performed at the Beyond the Notes Music Festival on May 21.
• The 8th-Grade Choir visited Rocky Knoll Health Care to sing American folk with residents. 

Elementary schools

• Fairview 4K visited Nourish Farms on April 15, where students prepared a healthy snack, learned about seeds, and planted seeds.
• 300 elementary students visited Fisher Valley Dairy May 14-15, hosted by Plymouth FFA.
• Horizon 2nd-graders visited Shalom Zoo.
• Parkview 2nd-graders visited the Sheboygan Historical Museum to learn about settlement in Wisconsin during the 1800s.
• Horizon 3rd-graders visited Sheboygan County Historical Museum.
• District 4th-graders visited the high school May 8 to participate in science activities led by PHS students.
• A group of 4th-graders visited UW-Green Bay’s Einstein Center on May 8 for a writing retreat facilitated by the GT Consortium of CESA 7. Students participated in five different sessions, including nature journaling, character creation, creating settings, creative writing, and 3D printer keychains.
• Horizon students visited Lone Oak Park.