Field Trips
Academic field trips vary from year to year and class to class. Parents will be notified of upcoming class trips.
Some of the field trips at Palms:
- 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 Modern Media and Communications Magnet have visited the Ballona Wetlands to gain a better understanding of environmental sustainability and restoration.
- Some sixth grade students take an annual trip 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 see A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga.
- Seventh grade students collect and take a field trip to deliver toys 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