Some very wet weather recently had Ethel A. Jacobsen Elementary School staff wondering if they should go ahead with a scheduled field trip to Johnson’s Corner Farm, in Medford. “Taking a leap of faith,” said school nurse and health teacher Bianca Aniski, “we hopped on three school buses and headed out, with lots of encouragement from our principal, Frank Birney.”

In the end, the outing for the school’s full-day pre-kindergarten through second-grade students was a success.