Travel
Educational Travel at SVA - The World is Our Classroom!
SVA has an incredible educational travel program. We choose travel experiences that help students grow academically, personally, and spiritually. Students, teachers, and families have so much to gain from educational travel. Read below about our upcoming trips and how you and your student can register to join us.
June 2025 - Italy
Where: Venice, Florence, Rome (optional add-on: Sorrento and Pompeii)
Who is eligible to join: current SVA students in good standing and their immediate family (younger siblings require an accompanying parent or guardian)
Focus: history of Italy and influence on western civilization, Renaissance art, Catholic identity
Trip website: Venice, Florence, and Rome
Trip leader(s): Rebecca Westgate, Helen Eady, Erin Stanley, Ilene Hohnerlein
Contact: rebecca.westgate@svaga.net
June 2026 - Thistle and Shamrock
Where: Killarney, Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, Scottish Highlands, Edinburgh
Who is eligible to join: current SVA students in good standing and their immediate family (younger siblings require an accompanying parent or guardian)
Focus: history of Ireland and Scotland, Celtic arts and literature, Catholic heritage
Trip website: Thistle and Shamrock
Trip leader(s): Terri Foote, Sarah Stewart
Contact: teresa.foote@svaga.net
June 2026 - Mother/Daughter* Pilgrimage
Where: Paris, Lourdes, San Sebastian, Montserrat, Barcelona, Madrid, Avila
Who is eligible to join: current SVA students; students in Catholic middle schools who intend to become part of the SVA classes of 2029 or 2030; and *their mothers, grandmothers, aunties, godmothers, Confirmation sponsors, or other women who guide the girls in their faith journeys
Focus: Catholic identity, spiritual reflection, relationships that inform our faith
Trip website: Catholic Highlights of France & Spain
Trip leader(s): Rebecca Westgate
Contact: rebecca.westgate@svaga.net
Educational Travel Scholarships
If you would like to donate to our scholarship fund to help make these experiences more accessible for deserving students, simply write “travel scholarship” on the memo line of your donation check to SVA or in the notes section of the online donation form.
