Category: Trips

On Wednesday morning Year 5 went to Bridgepoint in Rye to look at the Hastings Tapestries Project. These are 27 panels made in 1966 by the Royal Society of Embroiderers, which represent 900 chronological years of British history from 1066 to 1966.  We were all very impressed by the tapestries; they are incredibly intricate and well…

Year 8 Art Trip To The Hastings Contemporary / Phase 2 During the Summer Term, half of our present Year 8 pupils attended a visit to the ‘Jerwood Gallery’.  Now called ‘The Hastings Contemporary’, the gallery offered a tour and an artist’s workshop by the illustrator Ed Boxall. The pupils were asked to consider the…

On Tuesday, we launched the Year 7 theme of Conflict by taking the children to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.  The children began by exploring the decks of HMS Victory, undoubtedly the Navy’s most famous warship having served as Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar.  We started the tour in the open air on the Quarter…

Year 7 trip to Normandy, France 10-14th June 2019 We started from school at 5.30am in the rain, aiming for the fast ferry to Cherbourg at 9.00am.  We took a wrong turning and got caught in rush hour traffic on the M25, so missed our crossing and had to be booked onto the 2.45pm Brittany…

The annual Year 6 trip to Marwell Activity Centre near Winchester took place on 10-13th June 2019, with 33 Year 6 pupils and four staff in one of the wettest periods of weather for several months! We set off on the coach on Monday morning in high spirits and made good progress to our first…

When you go out camping it is often best to prepare for the worst and then you can be pleasantly surprised that this green and pleasant land doesn’t always throw its worst at you. However, this is not a message that is always easy for first-time campers to heed. Despite unedifying weather reports, Year 5…

Vinehall Ski Trip 2019 Passo Tonale, Italy ‘Let it snow’ and it really did!  I haven’t seen that much snow in years.  We arrived to a very patchy, green ski resort and left a white wonderland.  It really is so pretty when there has been a large snow fall and great fun. Our first few…

How many litres of milk does a cow produce a day?  50!  This was one of the many facts Year 1 learnt on their amazing day at Plumpton Agricultural College.  The children started the day by visiting the calf shed and looking at the different stages of a cow’s life.  From there we made our…

IAPS Ski Competition 2019 Wow!  Another great trip, they just seem to get better and better.  As always the children were wonderful. A very well-organised bunch and particularly polite, which is always a winner.  Never before have I been offered a drink on a tray when entering a room for a dorm check! There wasn’t…

Year 8 pupils headed off to London early on Thursday to get some first-hand experience of urban planning to support their studies in class about sustainable cities. Our first stop was to see the O2 to discuss brownfield development sites and how a venue such as the O2 can be a catalyst for further development….