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. Some typical trips and tours might include:

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

September Full Boarders - Great Henham Steam Rally

September Year 7 - Tate Modern and National Gallery

October Year 6 - Colchester Synagogue

October - Uppingham Skills Day Boarders

October - 1st XV & 1st XI - Boys’ Rugby & Girls’ Hockey Tours to Derbyshire

November Year 8 - Ipswich Mosque

December - Full Boarders - Christmas activities/shopping

January Year 4 - National Space Centre, Leicester

January Year 8 - Skellig, Bloomsbury Theatre

January Year 7 - Geography Field Trip, Easton Farm Park

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

February Boys’ 1st XI Hockey - Hockey Tournament at Oakham School

March - Science Club - Science Club Trip, Big Bang, Manchester

March Boys’ & Girls’ 1st XI Hockey - Gresham’s Hockey Tournament

April Boys’ & Girls’ 1st XI Hockey - Hockey tour to Holland

Summer visits:

May - Visit to River Brett (Year 3)

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

May - Visit to Duxford (Year 3)

May - River Brett Field Trip (Year 7)

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

May - Field trip to Stowmarket (Year 6)

May - Cricket Tour (U12)

May - Suffolk Show

June - Outward Bound (8 Leavers)

June - Junior 101 (Year 6)

June - HMS Belfast & BBC (Year 8 Leavers)

June - Cricket Tour (1st XI)

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

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

July - Senior 101 (Year 7)