Robbins Range Heritage School is a historic single room school house originally built and operated above Barnhartvale in 1916. It functioned as a local public school for rural students ranging from grade 1 to grade 9 until 1954. In 1985 the building was relocated to the Sahali neighborhood of Kamloops on the grounds of Pineridge Elementary, now the district's open leaning centre, . For 25 years the school has been used as a living museum for the Kamloops School District's elementary classes. A dedicated resource aid leads class field trips at the school site each year in May and June. Elementary classes can visit for full or half day sessions and participate in authentic historical classroom activities. The historic lessons include singing "God Save the King" and reciting the Lord's Prayer as well as classic instructional approaches to standard curricular subjects such as arithmetic, writing with quill pens, spelling bees, and more. The resource aid dresses in costume and students are encouraged to dress up as well. Students may also wish to pack old fashioned lunches such as pickles, rough cut sausage, or hard boiled eggs. The day is typified by role-playing in which students are introduced to a stricter educational experience; some may even find themselves in the dunce cap! Recess and lunch time games made available for students to enjoy include stilts, rolling hoops, jacks, marbles, tug o' war and other traditional pass times. For information on booking field trips for your class please contact Barbie at the Henry Grube Resource Center by calling 250-376-2291. The address for Robbins Range Heritage School is:
1770 Springview Place, Kamloops, BC, V2E 1X9
However, any mail should be sent to the Henry Grube Centre:
245 Kitchener Crescent, Kamloops, BC V2B 1B9
