Trip Overview
7th Grade Trip - Boston 2025
Thursday May 1, 2025 - Friday May 2, 2025
Each year Sayville Middle School goes to Boston with the seventh grade class. We depart from the middle school at 6:00 a.m and return the following afternoon from around 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. What makes the trip different from our eighth grade trip, is that parents can volunteer as chaperones. We take the first 50 parents that volunteer, along with 20 teachers and a school nurse. We have approximately 200 students in the seventh grade and anticipate 175 students will attend the trip.
Each student is required to complete a permission slip and provide any medication that needs to be administered by the nurse on the trip. The cost of the trip this year is $350.00 for each student and $350.00 for each parent chaperone. Students will ride a coach bus, with bathrooms and televisions, from Sayville to Boston. It is about a four hour ride to the city. Once we get to Boston, students will tour the USS Constitution and museum, the Boston Museum of Science, take an Old Town Trolley ride around Boston, participate in a dinner dance, and explore the Freedom Trail.
We will be using the Hampton Jitney Bus Company and staying at the Wyndham Beacon Hill Hotel. When we arrive at the hotel, students will get their room keys and the dinner dance will take place that evening on the top floor of the hotel. We have been staying at the same hotel for over thirty years and the staff there is incredible. Students will be assigned four students per room. Our teacher chaperones are on each floor with the students to supervise them and make sure there are no issues during the night. Our parent chaperones will be spread out throughout the hotel.
Students will have lots of opportunities to eat throughout the trip. Students should eat a light breakfast before leaving Sayville and a bagged lunch for the afternoon. There is a food court at the Science Museum and at the USS Constitution, so they can purchase lunch at those locations. The dinner dance begins at 6:30 p.m. and is a buffet-style dinner that will be served around 7:00 p.m. Students will stop for breakfast on the second day along the Freedom Trail with their chaperone and tour group. They will also be able to get lunch at Quincy Market before getting on the bus for the ride back to Sayville.
The trip is well supervised and students will move around the city with teacher and parent chaperones at every location. Downtown Boston is small and the Principal and the nurse will always be close to all students and chaperones at all times. We will have a parents' meeting to discuss the details of the trip in March. If you want to attend as a parent chaperone, please submit the chaperone form as soon as you can.
