Extra-Curricular
In-School Post Office
The third grade class operates an in-school mail service with deliveries made to students twice weekly. Third graders make applications and take the postal exam to be hired at the post office. Jobs rotate each grading period.
Outdoor Learning Labs
 Each classroom at New Horizons also has an outdoor space that is used for a variety of learning activities. Parents volunteer to help students care for plants. There are bird houses and feeders that students observe and care for. Weather instruments are used for data collection activities in several classes. Our outdoor spaces are important extensions of our classrooms.
Cross-Grade Level Learning Opportunities:
Several classes are paired older to younger for reading/writing activities on a regular basis. For example, fourth grade students are matched to first grade students. The fourth grader acts as a scribe for the first grader and then helps the first grader recopy a piece of writing. In addition, fifth grade students act as PE aids for the first graders and kindergarteners each week. Students also participate in the Fabulous Friday Switch each week. For an hour, each teacher works with a multi-aged group of students for an art activity, tutorial or other cooperative project. Students are encouraged to get to know children from other grade levels and to become friends.
Field Trips
Students take a variety of field trips throughout the year. Each class visits the downtown branch of the New Hanover County Public Library twice monthly for book check-out and programs. There are regular visits to the Cape Fear Museum and the Cameron Art Museum. Students have attended plays, concerts, and ballets presented by a variety of artists. The third grade visits Raleigh each spring for a program at Exploris. Other classes have visited the NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher and Poplar Grove Plantation.
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