On Thursday, Jan 18 grade 10 students who were in the Outdoor Education course, went on a year-end field trip. Jeff Manchak has been teaching the Outdoor Education Course for four years now and every year he takes the students to Islet Lake as a year-end field trip. Manchak stated that there were two main goals of the field trip. The first goal was to give the students an opportunity to try the skills they had learned throughout the course, and use them in a more or less real-life situation. The second goal was to get the students outdoors one last time. Manchak said, “Every year the students enjoy the chance to show me the skills they have learned. The trickiest part of the field trip is starting a fire without matches, a lighter
