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 2010/11

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

Please also note there is an annual Ski Trip run during the Easter Holidays that is open to students from year 10 onwards, average cost is £610, to Austria.

Year Group	Month	Department	Trip / Activity	Cost
7	December	History	Introduction to life in the middle ages	£5
	May	ICT	Computer Control at Legoland	£25
	May	Science	National Space Centre	£22
	July	French	Paris - Residential Trip	£400
8	March	History	Black Country Museum, Dudley	£27
	TBC	Maths/Science	Cross-Curricular visit	TBC
8 & 9	TBC	Maths	UKMT team challenge	No cost
9	October/November	MFL	Languages Day - Longsands	No cost
	March	Art	Saatchi and National Gallery, London	£25
	April/May	Residential	Caythorpe Activity Weekend	£155
	May	History	Ypres, Belgium	£55
9 & 10	End of June	German	Germany 5 days	£400
10 &11 12 & 13	Autumn & Spring Terms	Dance	Two musical theatre visits to be confirmed, 1 each term	£30
	November	Art	London, Tate Modern & Tate Britain Galleries	£15
	November	Science	GCSE Triple Science Visit - year 10 & 11	£30
	March	French Residential	GCSE/AS Study visit, Normandy - year 10 & 12	£400
	March	ICT/Business	Paris - Disneyland, Applied ICT year 12/Diploma ICT year 13	£149
	April	History	Imperial War Museum, London - year 10	£17
	Easter Holiday	Ski Trip	Austria Ski residential 8 days	£695
	June	Geography	Touring Trip to Iceland	£600
	July	Year 10 Activity	Social Enterprise, on site 3 days	No cost
11	September	Geography Residential	Lake District 5 days	£200
	September	Business	Cadburys World	£25
	October	Art	Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Exam preparation	£7
	January 11th	English	GCSE Poetry Live	£22
	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	No cost
	February	Geography	West Wales field work	£200
	March	Biology	Examination Revision Course	£20
	April	Biology	Ecological Field Studies	No cost
	June/July	Science	London - University visit	£30
	July	Sixth Form Activity	Careers Guidance	Cost of transport
12 & 13	September	Sixth Form Activity	Study Skills Day on site	No cost
	November	Art	Courtauld Gallery and National Gallery, London	£11
	February	History	National Archives, London	£26

 

Educational Visits: Charging 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 instill a positive attitude towards work and College life in general.

Insurance Arrangements (current on 11th May 2009)

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.