There is no more powerful place to learn than in the field, making observations about and investigating what is real, not confined to the pages of a textbook. Traveling to learn has been an integral part of The Phoenix School’s curriculum for 27 years, whether we travel down the street, throughout the country, or [...]

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Matthew Tremblay
When I went inside Notre Dame, I was astounded by the beauty of the 700-year-old building. Inside the great cathedral the choir was singing, creating a background sound much more attractive than that of the tourists outside. One thing I found surprising was the complete silence of the place, except for [...]

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Olivia Hanna
At the beautiful sculpture garden of the Musee Rodin I saw the most amazing masterpieces I have ever seen. Rodin seemed to create a real human out of his materials. It was as if an actual person was standing there in front of me. Every sculpture showed movement even if it was meant [...]

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Matthew Wysocki
Does the Tour Eiffel live up to its reputation? The answer is yes. The Tour Eiffel is obviously Paris’s trump card when it comes to attracting tourists and is the most colossal monument I have ever seen. However, it looked different up close. It was crowded with legions of tourists passing between souvenir shops [...]

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Jeffrey Childs
As I was waking down a street in Paris I saw the buildings lined with stalls and street markets. The street markets were like someone cut off part of a supermarket and stuck it in a wall on the street. Inside a street market were perfectly ripe fruit that looked so sweet and [...]

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Zach Barshevsky
As soon as the boat docked I jumped on board. I ran up the stairs and jumped into the first seat available and got my camera ready. My excitement was so overpowering that I was bouncing in my seat when the tour started. The first bridge on the tour was the Pont Nuef. [...]

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Eric McCathern
I was in line waiting to go in my favorite place in Paris, Musée d’Orsay. All I knew was it is a museum. I heard about some of the artists’ paintings inside. I was most excited about seeing Toulouse-Lautrec paintings because I studied him. I felt excitement in the air. Today was going [...]

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Daniel Tremblay
As I step out of the grand Palais Versailles I see a vast garden, the great garden of Versailles. The enormous hedges and flowerbeds stretch before me creating a labyrinth. I think about how to find my way through and I wonder if this is how they invented the hedge maze. Although the [...]

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Sam Carlberg
My favorite part of Paris, the famous Arc de Triomphe, can finally be seen from the top of the bus. The detail on this arch is the main reason that I like this structure, but there are others as well. The miniscule detail is hazy but the grand sculptures are easily recognizable, even in [...]

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Phoenix travellers take a moment to rest in front of the imposing Notre Dame cathedral.

The gardens at Versailles are impressive in any season.

Even more impressive at Versailles is the great Hall of Mirrors where the Sun King’s throne sits.

A highlight of our trip was shopping for ingredients for an authentic French dinner which [...]

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Barbara McFall, Betsye Sargent
Founders and heads of The Phoenix School

“Don’t do it,” said a marketing team from Suffolk U. after evaluating the potential for opening a new school in Salem in 1981, but Barbara McFall and Betsye Sargent paid no attention and went ahead anyway. You may remember 1981 was a time much like today. [...]

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A body has just been discovered.  Join Inspector Smith and the FPI (Federal Phoenix Investigators) to help solve the crime.  Learn all about the human body to help you look for the clues you will need to figure out what really happened.

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