Trips and Tours

A full progamme of tours and trips operates thoughout the year and indeed in the holidays too, which are both educational, recreational and fun! We seek to educate and broaden the knowledge of the pupils by opening the curriculum through experience and by exposing the children to different media.

12th September 2009 Years 7 & 8 - Suffolk Historic Church’s Cycle Ride

Sunday 20th September 2009 Full Boarders - Great Henham Steam Rally

14th September 2009 Year 7 - Tate Modern and National Gallery

8th October 2009 Year 6 - Colchester Synagogue

11th October 2009 Participating - Uppingham Skills Day Boarders

Sunday 18th October 2009 Full Boarders - Wimbledon/Twickenham Museums

20th – 21st October 2009 1st XV & 1st XI - Boys’ Rugby & Girls’ Hockey Tours to Derbyshire

17th November 2009 Year 8 - Ipswich Mosque

Sunday 6th December 2009 Full Boarders - Christmas activities/shopping

14th January Year 4 - National Space Centre, Leicester

19th January Year 8 - Skellig, Bloomsbury Theatre

26th January Year 7 - Geography Field Trip, Easton Farm Park

5th February Year 6 - Geography & Science Trip, Natural History Museum

6th – 7th February Boys’ 1st XI Hockey - Hockey Tournament at Oakham School

11th – 12th March - Science Club - Science Club Trip, Big Bang, Manchester

27th – 29th March Boys’ & Girls’ 1st XI Hockey - Gresham’s Hockey Tournament

28th – 4th April - Ski Trip to Gstaad, Switzerland

30th – 2nd April Boys’ & Girls’ 1st XI Hockey - Hockey tour to Holland

Summer visits:

May 1st - Visit to River Brett (Year 3)

May 5th - Trip to Science & Natural History Museum (Year 4)

May 12th - Visit to Duxford (Year 3)

May 13th - River Brett Field Trip (Year 7 - 1st group)

May 16th - River Brett Field Trip (Year 7 - 2nd group)

May 18th - Oakham Sunday (Chosen from Yrs 5 and 6)
Boarders’ Paintballing Trip (Year 8 Full Boarders)

May 22nd - Visit to Stowmarket (Year 6)

May 23rd – 26th - Cricket Tour (U12)

May 29th - Suffolk Show (Main School)

June 14th to 19th - Outward Bound (8 Leavers)

June 23rd to 26th - Junior 101 (Year 6)

June 24th - HMS Belfast & BBC (Year 8 Leavers)

June 26th to 28th - Cricket Tour (1st XI)

July 1st - Choir Trip to ‘Pleasurewood Hills’ (Chapel Choir)

July 3rd - St Paul’s Cathedral & Drury Lane Theatre for ‘Lord of the Rings’ (Year 8 Leavers)

July 6th to 11th - Senior 101 (Year 7)