Trips, Expeditions and Exchanges
We offer a range of trips, to destinations both far and wide, to enrich the curriculum as well as to complement and enhance academic studies and support charity projects worldwide. We believe in enabling our pupils to explore multiple contexts and cultures. Trips to a wide range of locations take place across the year.
Recent excursions include visits to Spain, Italy, France, London, China and the US.
Trips News
Our A Level Spanish pupils enjoyed an inspiring study day in London focused on the iconic Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar , a key part of their Paper 2 syllabus. The day offered pupils the opportunity to deepen their understanding of his work through expert-led sessions and engaging discussions with university professors and fellow Spanish students from other schools. Beyond the classroom, they also embraced the cultural side of Spain by sharing a well-deserved tapas dinner , bringing their learning to life through food, conversation and authentic cultural experiences.
On Friday 16 January, three of our VEX Robotics teams from Lower 4, Upper 4 and Lower 5 travelled to Thomas Lord Audley School in Colchester to take part in a regional robotics competition. It was an exciting and memorable day for several pupils, with this being their first experience of a competitive robotics event. All three teams performed brilliantly throughout the day, making this our most successful competition overall to date. Following the qualification matches, we were delighted that teams finished an impressive 2nd, 3rd and 4th overall out of 16 teams. Whilst no trophies were awarded in this instance, the standard of performance was exceptional. A special mention goes to the Lower 5 team of Oscar Zhang, Jj Li and Jayden Hondonga, who finished joint first in the Driver Skills section of the competition, despite having to rebuild their robot during the event. The teams were accompanied by Mrs Brown and Mr Moore, who were incredibly proud of how all the pupils represented the school. Congratulations to all who took part!
Lower 6 Art and Design pupils enjoyed a trip to London this week. We hear from Elise Foong, pupil and member of the Close Creatives Collective about the trip. "On Tuesday 13 January, a group of L6 2D students, and a few fine art pupils, including myself, went on a trip to London to visit some galleries. Our day consisted of spectacular gallery showings, many underground rides, bustling streets and unfortunately a continuous amount of rain. The first gallery we visited was the Design Museum, ‘Blitz: the club that shaped the 80s’, was one of the exhibitions we looked at, it was on how the Blitz nightclub completely transformed and reshaped many art and creative forms physically and socially, as well as also creating a post-war welfare state. Another exhibition, or I should say an archive, we saw at the Design Museum was ‘Wes Anderson: The Archives’, this was most definitely the highlight of my trip as I would consider myself quite the fan, it felt so surreal seeing all the real props, figures, and outfits from the films themselves! I found it quite awesome how, Wes Anderson having a highly distinctive and meticulously crafted cinematic style also shines through in how he began collecting and archiving props and costumes from all his films after Bottle Rocket 1996. After all the standing and walking we did, we took the underground to Borough Market and had lunch. There were many unique food stalls that sold many things like fresh produce, cheese, pastries including cannolis, international street foods like paella, curries and burgers. After lunch we then walked around and over the Millennium bridge, where I learnt of the hundreds of tiny and vibrant artworks on discarded chewing gum, and took the underground from St Paul’s to the Photographers’ Gallery where we saw Boris Mikhailov’s ‘Ukrainian Diary’. Which presented 50 years of his work that showed a unique visual history through experimentally and emotionally charged photography, the poignant, difficult images of Ukrainian life falls deeply relevant and powerful against the backdrop of the ongoing war which I found very raw and confrontational. After everyone had finally regrouped we headed to take the central line once again back to the train station to conclude our trip. Big thanks to Mr Passam, Mr Seaman, and Miss Goian who made this trip possible!" Photography - Elise Foong
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