"School Visits are one of the most memorable parts of school life" (K.Cooper, 2006)

Over the past few years a number of staff within the school, have put a lot of personal time and energy into providing opportunities for pupils to experience the benefits of a school visit.

Paris
Kingswood
Butlins
Crich

Paris

Purpose of Visit
To provide the opportunity for pupils to visit a foreign country, practise their language skills and experience another culture first hand.

Year 9 and 10 engaged in a visit to France where they had the opportunity to practise and develop their French language, reading and speaking skills. As everyone knows, there can be no substitute for actually doing it for real! All pupils who took part, found this to be an unforgetable visit and that, consequently, their reading language skills have greatly improved along with their confidence to actually converse in French.

Kingswood

Purpose of Visit
To provide an opportunity for pupils to experience aspects of practical geography that are not available in the classroom.

Whilst on this four day visit, pupils spend a whole day studying erosion and sea defences on the Norfolk coastline. They then produce a presentation in the evening, using ICT skills. The following day, pupils spend their time studying the different aspects of rivers, including shape, speed and the indigenous animal life. The remainder of the time is spent building team skills, confidence and a sense of personal responsibility. This is done through a number of activities including fencing, rock climbing and archery.

Butlins

Purpose of Visit
This five day residential visit has been designed to give a selection of KS3 pupils a boost to learning and personal skills.

This visit makes use of the facilities at Butlins to provide a number of educational workshops intermingled with fun activities. The workshops ar based on National Curriculum subjects, but use hands-on, practical activities rather than normal class work, in order to engage pupils. Many of the activities are designed to build and encourage confidence and teamwork. These are skills the pupils can take back into the classroom and use to enhance their own learning.

Crich

Purpose of Visit
The purpose of Crich is to provide Year 10 pupils the opportunity of experience a religious retreat and to enhance the role of religion in their life.

Crich is a five day residentital visit where pupils are given the opportunity to learn more about the Catholic religion through fun activities which develop their sense of spiritual identify and faith within the church. The pupils become heaviliy involved in producing an presenting their own liturgies and take an active part in each and every mass.