The personal development of students socially, physically, emotionally, intellectually, etc., is assisted by providing them with a variety of experiences outside their normal home-school environment.  Such experiences can be gained by students participating in a range of excursions throughout their school life.

 

PURPOSES:
1.         To enhance students’ learning through the provision of first-hand experience.
2.         To increase knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the local area and other areas which are different in nature, culture and environment from our own.
3.         To facilitate development of skills in observation, recording and reporting.
4.         To assist in the development of confidence, independence, and a sense of adventure with responsibility towards themselves and others.
5.         To assist with social development of students by providing the opportunity to live and work with others in situations different from their normal environment and culture.
6.         To meet the requirements of the National Curriculum and examination courses.

 

Planned Educational Visits for the year 2012/2013

This list does not include social excursions organized at the end of the autumn and summer terms by pastoral leaders, or visits to conferences / theatres that may be found to be relevant during the course of the academic year.

Year Group	Month	Department	Trip / Activity	Cost
7	May	ICT	Computer Control at Legoland	£25
	July	Pastoral	Paris – Residential Visit	£420
8	December	Art	Galleries visit	£25
	June	Science	Museums’ visit – Cambridge	£10
8 & 9	TBC	Maths	UKMT team challenge	No cost
9	January	Geography	Olympics site visit	£35
	February	History - Residential	World War I Battlefields	£120
	April/May	Pastoral	Caythorpe Activity Weekend	£155
9 & 10	May	German	Germany – May half term	£400
10	September	Science	BTEC Ecological visit	No Cost
	November	Art	London, Tate Modern & Tate Britain Galleries	£15
	February	Science	GCSE Triple Science Visit	£30
	March	History Residential	Auschwitz	TBC
	June	PE	Outdoor Education Centre – North Yorkshire – end of June after exams.	£180
	July	Year 10 Activity	Social Enterprise	No cost
10 & 11 12 & 13	October	Textiles / Graphics	London – Museums’ – year 12 and 13	TBC
	October	Geography	Iceland - Thursday 25th to Monday 29th October – year 11/12/13	£780
	November	French	French study and Integration visit Wednesday 7th to Saturday 10th November– year 10 & 11	£315
	November	Maths	UKMT team challenge – year 11 and 12	No cost
	Easter holiday	Ski Trip	Austria (St Anton) Ski  residential - Friday 29th March to Saturday 6th April	£789
11	September	Geography	GCSE field visit – 1 day, Huntingdon	£10
	September	Media	BBC Visit	£35
	October	Art	Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Exam preparation	£7
	March	Year 11 Activity	Study Skills Day on site	No cost
	May	Year 11 Activity	Intervention Days, English, Science, Maths, on site	No cost
12	September	Sixth Form Activity	Year 12 Induction – 4th and 5th September	No cost
	November	Science	BTEC Level 3 – science laboratory visit	TBC
	January	Science	BTEC Level 3 –  Police forensics talk.	No Cost
	March	Geography	West Wales residential	£120
	March	Biology	Revision technique workshop	£20
	April	Biology	Ecological Field Studies	No Cost
	July	Sixth Form Activity	Careers Guidance	Cost of transport
12 & 13	September	Chemistry	On site Spectroscopy workshop – University of East Anglia, year 13.	No Cost
	September	Geography	Wood walton Fen, research – year 13	£15
	November	Art	Courtauld Gallery and National Gallery, London	£11
	TBC	Science	BTEC Level 3 – year 13 science laboratory visit	TBC
	February	Science	Sanger Institute Workshop – year 13 biology and year 12/13 BTEC students.	£20
	July	Science/Geography	Operation Wallacea - Honduras	£2500

 

 

Educational Visits: Charging and Remissions Policy

Many visits will have no cost attached or, being a compulsory part of a course, will be provided free of charge.  More expensive visits could not run, however, without parental support, and in these cases, the College asks for a voluntary contribution to offset costs, as is common practice in schools.  If insufficient voluntary contributions are forthcoming, an educational visit might have to be cancelled. Above all, the College looks to all educational visits to increase motivation amongst its students and instil a positive attitude towards work and College life in general.
Students whose parents are in receipt of family credit or income support are entitled to receive full remission of charges in respect of board and lodging and it is the school's policy to provide such remission where other charges are made as outlined below:
They form part of the requirements of a syllabus for a public examination, are specifically related to the national curriculum or to fulfil the statutory duties relating to Religious Education.
Funds are not available to provide full remission where activities are outside the terms of the act, i.e. outside or mainly outside school hours. Please contact the Educational Visits Coordinator in cases of hardship.

 

Insurance Arrangements (current on 20th July 2012)

As part of the preparation for an educational visit, the College organises a wide-ranging insurance policy to cover the visit. As is normal in such policies, the cover for all the College educational visits carries the following restrictions:

• There is an excess of £15 per claim.  This means that the first £15 of any claim must be paid by the person making the claim.  If you wish to take out further private insurance to cover this excess you should do so before the visit takes place.

 

• In the case of loss, damage or theft, there is a limit of £1000 on each INDIVIDUAL item. On most visits, it is very unlikely that your son/daughter will be taking items of more than this value, if only for security's sake.  The College would certainly not recommend it.  If he/she does, however, you are advised to take out private insurance to cover such items.