POULSBO — Students looking for an opportunity to travel the world (and learn a little) will be able to do just that in spring 2016.

Lola Haveman, French teacher at North Kitsap High School, is organizing her third trip to France with students through Education First, an educational travel company.

Unlike the last two trips, when students were required to know a conversational level of the French language, this time any student enrolled in a French class can participate.

“It could be any grade or level of French, and the reason why is, on this particular tour we’ll be doing, we’ll always be together,” Haveman said.

The last tours involved partnering with a sister school in Brittany, France. The students participated in a home-stay program and attended the high school there for the duration of the trip.

This next tour, Haveman said, “is more of a sightseeing trip.”

“The goal is to help my students use and hear French being spoken abroad in an authentic environment,” Haveman said. “That’s the main point of these trips.”

Haveman said the tours are always planned through an educational travel company, as they’re not a North Kitsap School District event, but the company can change every year.

“Each time, we work with a different company because it’s very important that the students and their families vote on the itinerary and the price every time,” Haveman said.

They were given three choices this time, with Education First gaining the majority of the vote.

The trip will take place during spring break of the 2015-16 school year, but students have already begun signing up.

Haveman said there’s no limit to the number of students who can go on the trip; a larger number of students will simply mean a larger number of chaperones. Haveman said the goal is to have one chaperone for every six students.

Parents can register their students on the Education First website. Registration costs $3,190 for students, including breakfast and dinner daily and a $100 early-enrollment discount. That discount ends next week, on March 31.

The trip will last nine days, starting with a couple of days in Paris. There, the students will go on a walking tour, visit the Louvre, see the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, and visit Notre Dame Cathedral.

From there, the students will head to Normandy for tours of the region, visit World War II sites and more. Then the group will head to Brittany to visit some cathedrals and other sites.

“Being with the students when they visit another country for the first time, and seeing their faces and hearing their comments and being a part of that experience, is really special,” Haveman said, “because there’s nothing like that first time of traveling abroad. When you visit some place that is not like home, where you’re not hearing what you normally hear at home or seeing what you normally see at home, it’s a fascinating experience.”

Haveman said her first trip abroad was “life changing,” and she finds it rewarding to help students experience it, as well.

“It’s been very supportive,” Haveman said of the response she’s received in the past. “And that’s why we’ve been able to do it every year.”

She said the trips to France provide the students with an “enriching opportunity to expand their worldview.”

“We wouldn’t be able to do it unless there was positive support from students and their parents.”

Haveman said she organizes these trips to “help the students see how wide and diverse the world is.”

“I love Poulsbo … but the world is obviously so much bigger than Poulsbo,” Haveman said.

For more information on the trip or to register, visit EFTours.com/1668890ps.