South Ridge Elementary School students hit the trail for outdoor learning

Ridgefield — The trail behind South Ridge Elementary School serves as an outdoor classroom where students can learn in a different environment. Parents, teachers and Eagle Scouts worked together over time to improve the learning space with a pavilion, benches and educational signs. Sixth-graders perform an annual day of trail maintenance as a way to give back to the school when they graduate. Margo Manke’s first-grade class spent some time on the trail recently, using Full Option Science System kits to study plants along the trail, learning about plant parts and what plants need to live.