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Academic Trips
Experiential learning is an important part of learning, and ANC is excited to be able to provide educational trips for our students.
2024-2025 Spanish and French Exchange Trips
Spanish Exchange | March 7-17, 2025
ANC is just completed their sixth exchange with La Purísima school in Valencia, Spain, in the spring of 2025. See photos from from the exchange here.
ANC students and teachers traveled to Valencia over spring break 2025 to live with host families, attend classes and tour Valencia as well as spend a weekend in Barcelona. Our visit to Valencia coincided with preparations for the region’s biggest festival of the year: Las Fallas. We got to experience the daily fireworks, numerous parades and gigantic ninots–huge paper-mache statues that commemorate and satirize the past year. In Barcelona we visited La Sagrada Familia, Las Ramblas, the Gothic Quarter and saw a Flamenco show.
The Spanish students came to ANC at the end of March and stayed with host families, attended ANC classes and also took day trips into Philadelphia. They were here during our spring dance, the Junior-Senior dance, which was a highlight.
ANC participates in an exchange with La Purísima every two years, and information about the 2027 exchange will be published in early February of 2026. Please reach out to sarah.waelchli@ancss.org with any questions about the exchange.
French Exchange | March 7-17, 2025
Year two with the high school Le Mirail in Bordeaux is coming up! ANC students will be staying with host families and attending school in beautiful Bordeaux and spending a weekend in Paris during spring break 2025. Some instagram pics and videos of ANC students in Bordeaux in 2023 give a taste of the amazing experience they had.
The French students will be coming to ANC some time after spring break to stay with their ANC partner's family, attend ANC classes and also take some trips to local points of interest.
Hosting is, of course, an integral part of an exchange, but if a student with an inability to host is interested in participating, s/he should reach out to Mrs. Connelly to investigate possible alternatives.
The trip is open to any ANC student who is or has been part of the French program, French 1 students included! Click here for itinerary and prices. Financial aid is available! Please contact holly.connelly@ancss.org for more information or for registration instructions.
Students who may not be ready or able to travel to France but would like to participate in the exchange are invited to host. There are many French students who want to visit ANC so the demand for host families is high! Contact holly.connelly@ancss.org for more information.
2025-2026 Science Trip
Costa Rica Science Trip | Tentatively June 2026
ANC is tentatively planning a science trip to Costa Rica in the beginning of summer 2026, shortly after the 2025-2026 school year ends. These trips usually end up being about 6-8 days long.
The trip will be open to any current or former ANC student and anyone else that would like to join. Details about exact timing and cost should be finalized around December 2024.
Please contact dave.keith@ancss.org for more information.