Out of School Visits
Out of school visits are made to places of interest to enhance the curriculum.
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Visits are made to places locally and further afield. For instance, when studying localities, year three have visited areas in Adwick, but Year five, studying the Tudors went further to Shibden Hall near Halifax—and year six travelled all the way to Beamish as a part of their work on the Victorians. |
We do try include a residential experience for the children as well, at least once whilst they are at Adwick Park. This is linked either to topic work or to the physical education curriculum. We find that children really enjoy and benefit from the residential experience, and encourage even those who are reluctant to be away from home to give it a go!
We do have to ask for voluntary parental contributions for all out of school visits. However, in cases of genuine hardship, we will do everything we can to help. The Governors will follow LEA guidelines on charging for school visits.
Children learn a tremendous amount from visits—a real experience is so much better than studying from books, although of course this is a very valuable way of learning too. Where we really can’t make even one visit to enhance a particular aspect or topic, we try to emulate a real experience in the classroom, through role play—another excellent way of learning at any age!
Our typical annual programme may include:
Shibden Hall (Tudor House), Eden Camp (World War II), Beamish (Victorians), National Space Centre (Earth in Space), PGL residential (PE / Orienteering), Mining Museum (local study) Scrooby, (Religious Education), Doncaster market (shops / changes), Tropical World at Roundhay (environments).
Out of school visits, and especially the residentials involve staff in a lot of hard work before and during—it is down to their commitment to the children that they are willing to do this so readily.