Camelot Buehrle Goes to Philadelphia

By: Communication Arts Teacher Darina Stover

Everybody loves Rocky and wants that “Rocky Moment” in their lives. Everybody wants their hard work to pay off and to feel a glorious moment of victory. At the beginning of the 2012-2013 school year, the long process of writing a grant to fund a class trip from Lancaster to the Philadelphia Museum of Art was started. Many brainstorming sessions, lesson planning, hours spent writing and editing, crossing every “t” and dotting every “I,” and six months later, our “Rocky Moment” had come. We were off to Philadelphia to visit the art museum!

With much appreciation to the LEF Foundation for giving us the grant, on Wednesday March 27, 2013, 55 students and 13 staff members from Buehrle were able to journey to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Upon arriving at the museum, the first thing all of the students and a few of the staff did was to run up the stairs leading to the museum in our best Rocky fashion! Victory! Our hard work, good behavior, and strong academics had paid off!

The students and staff then split up into two groups that toured several exhibits in the museum. It was great to see all of the students excited and so engaged in the various types of art that surrounded them and to hear them actively engage with our tour guides. While we filled every minute of our hour and a half tours, we could have easily spent more time enjoying and analyzing the other artwork and exhibits.

The students displayed exceptional behavior, receiving the praises of their tour guides, and really enjoyed their time learning about and appreciating various forms of art from paintings, to statues, to tapestries, to armor and weapons, to artwork made from scraps and trinkets. It was a rewarding trip that was definitely worth working for!