Sawtry Community College - Educational Visits

Educational Visits

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 2011/2012

This list does not include social excursions organized at the end of the autumn and summer terms by pastoral leades, 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	November	Geography	Visit to The Great Fen Project	£15
	December	History	Warwick Castle	£25
	May	ICT	Computer Control at Legoland	£25
	May	Science	National Space Centre	£22
	July	Pastoral	Paris – Residential Visit	£420
8	TBC	Maths/Science	Cross-Curricular visit – STEM	TBC
8	June/July	Science	Museums’ visit - Cambridge	£10
8 & 9	TBC	Maths	UKMT team challenge	No cost
9	March	Art	Saatchi and National Gallery, London	£25
	April	Geography	Olympics site visit – 23rd April	£35
	April/May	Pastoral	Caythorpe Activity Weekend	£155
	February	History - Residential	World War I Battlefields	£120
9 & 10	May/June	Spanish	Spanish study and integration visit (runs into the half term holiday)	£420
9 to 13	November	German	3 day visit to Christmas market Cologne – Friday 25th to Sunday 27th November	£185
10 & 11 12 & 13	September	Science	BTEC year 10 Ecological visit	No Cost
	October	Textiles / Graphics	London – Museums’ – year 12 and 13	TBC
	November	Art	London, Tate Modern & Tate Britain Galleries – year 10	£15
	November	French	French study and Integration visit Friday 4th November to Monday 7th November – year 10 & 11	£300
	November	Maths	UKMT team challenge – year 11 and 12	No cost
	February	Science	GCSE Triple Science Visit – year 10	£30
	February	Art/History/French	Paris – Friday 10th February to Monday 13th February (half term is Monday 13th Feb) – year 12 and 13	£230
	March	ICT	Paris – Disneyland, ICT and Applied ICT – year 12 and 13	£200
	March	History - Residential	Auschwitz – year 10	£401
	Easter holiday	Ski Trip	Austria Ski residential 8 days	£725
	June	PE	Outdoor Education Centre – North Yorkshire – Friday 15th June to Sunday 17th June – year 10	£180
	July	Year 10 Activity	Social Enterprise, on site 3 days	No cost
	September	Geography Residential	Lake District 5 days – September 19th to 23rd.	£190
11	October	Business – GCSE and BAF Students	Cadburys World	£25
	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
	September	Sixth Form Activity	Year 12 Induction – 6th and 7th September	No cost
12	February	Geography	West Wales field work	£170
	April	Biology	Ecological Field Studies	No Cost
	July	Sixth Form Activity	Careers Guidance	Cost of transport
	September	Sixth Form Activity	Study Skills Day on site	No cost
12 & 13	September	Chemistry	On site Spectroscopy workshop – University of East Anglia	No Cost
	September	French	Cambridge Arts Theatre (Tartuffe) – Thursday 22nd September in the evening	£20
	October	Business	Jaguar Plant	TBC
	November	Economics	Bank of England	TBC
	November	Art	Courtauld Gallery and National Gallery, London	£11
	November	Enrichment	EPQ students– University of Hertfordshire – during enrichment lessons	£7
	29th November	History	National Archives, London	TBC
	February	Science	Sanger Institute Workshop	£20
	TBC	Science	BTEC Level 3 – year 12 – science laboratory visit / science museum and guest speakers on site	TBC

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 5th July 2011)

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.