Field Trips
Academic field trips vary from year to year and class to class. Parents will be notified of upcoming class trips.
Some Palm field trips, past and present:
- Each year, about 100 art students visit the Getty Center in Brentwood.
- Art students may also visit The Broad museum and the California African American Museum.
- Students in Instrumental Music perform at several off-campus concerts.
- Students in the BSAP program take field trips. For 2022-2023 the trips were to see OURstory the Black History Musical at the Alex Theater and for a tour of SoFi Stadium and the Kinsey African American Art & History Collection.
- Students in the Modern Media and Communications Magnet have visited the Ballona Wetlands to gain a better understanding of environmental sustainability and restoration.
- Eighth grade students may visit a college or university. They visited Los Angeles Trade-Technical College in Spring 2023.
- Some sixth grade students have gone to the UCLA Institute for Planets and Exoplanets (iPLEX).
- Some science students go to UCLA in conjunction with DNA Day.
- P.E. students can participate in the Run 4 Fun racing festival.
- Seventh grade Honors English students went annually to see A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga.
- Seventh grade students have collected toys and taken a field trip to deliver them during the Toy Drive.
- Leadership students may visit Los Angeles City Hall.
- Eighth grade students can take a Trip to the East Coast.
- Eligible eighth graders go to Knott's Scary Farm in the Fall and either Magic Mountain or Universal Studios in the Spring.
- Teachers may get grants for special field trips to museums, fairs, historic site, etc.
Hammer Museum photos by Palms students Tuesday White and Princess Ilo
Broad Theatre Field Trip
Getty Center Field Trip, 2019
