For the first time, 8th-grade students from the Henniker Community School and Weare Middle School combined for a 5-day tour of Washington, DC, the week of April 17, 2023. This was also the first time in three years that a trip to DC from SAU 24 schools has been possible due to the pandemic.
The week allowed students to see many of DC’s historic sites including the US Holocaust Museum, the National Musem of African American History, the National Air and Space Museum the National Zoo, and the Lincoln, Vietnam, Korean Iwo Jima, Jefferson, FDR, Martin Luthor King Jr, and World War II Memorials. The nearly 150 8th graders also attended the musical Les Miserables at the Kennedy Center on the final evening of their trip. The students will be classmates in the fall as Henniker and Weare students attend John Stark Regional High School in Weare.