Learning outside of the classroom offers unique opportunities for children to enrich their learning, enhance personal and social development, gain greater awareness of different environments and adopt healthy lifestyles. All of our educational visits are carefully planned to broaden and develop children's knowledge linked to specific areas of the curriculum. Risks are assessed using eVisit and meet the required health and safety standards. Mr Firmstone-Hill is our Educational Visits Co-ordinator and oversees all provision with Mrs Cousins. Following educational visits, photographs will be added to your child's class page to share the learning experiences of the day with you.

Parental contributions are requested to support the cost of these experiences (these are non profit making and contributions purely cover the cost). Children on free school meals or receiving PPG funding will have their contributions met by the school. 

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the school office.

Why our children value educational visits

Key Stage One pupils said:

• They put more knowledge in my mind.
• We have fun without realising the knowledge we are getting. If it was delivered in class, the knowledge would not go in the same way because of the real experiences on a trip.

Key Stage Two pupils said:

• The visits embed your learning more. The knowledge stays with you better, it sinks in more.
• They tend to make you more active instead of being in the classroom.
• They are fun, you get to explore places you have never been and experience what it would have been like, especially history trips. The people leading the trips have lots of knowledge to share with us. It is better than watching a documentary.
• They give us a better understanding of what we are learning. There is a better appreciation of how people lived and what they did, for example the Maya at Cadbury World.
• Arthog taught us geography, social and team building skills. It was learning for the outside world, not just for school.