Year 6 Adventures in the Lake District
This term’s Year 6 residential trip took place at the Howtown Outward Bound Centre in The Lake District. Throughout the week pupils participated in a variety of outdoor and adventurous activities aimed at developing confidence, resilience, emotional control, teamwork, goal setting and environmental awareness. I am pleased to report that all our pupils were a credit to the school and were praised for their enthusiasm and growth mindset by their instructors and course director.
“THERE IS MORE IN US THAN WE KNOW. IF WE CAN BE MADE TO SEE IT, PERHAPS FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES WE WILL BE UNWILLING TO SETTLE FOR LESS”-Kurt Hahn
Also in Trips
Hunting For Mini Beasts
Year 2 had a fantastic day out at the Affinity Water Education Centre. Year 2 learnt how to use a classification key and soon put their skills into practise when they went pond dipping and minibeast hunting! They caught a variety of creatures and managed to identify them using a key. They even caught a newt! […]
To the top of the Shard and across Tower Bridge
School trips are an important, powerful teaching tool. They are used to bring purpose to learning, put it in context and provide children with a valuable, memorable learning experience. This was certainly achieved in Year 3 with this term’s school trip. As part of a Design and Technology topic – ‘Structures’ – they took a […]
Year 3 Visit Aldenham Church
The children greatly enjoyed our visit to Aldenham Church. The Revd. Robert Fletcher kindly gave us a talk about the History of the Church. The children particularly enjoyed learning about how the tower, which was built around 1250, was damaged in 1940 by a german bomb, destroying the spire and damaging the parapet. Amazingly, the […]