This page shows an archive of reports of recent school trips. Click on the Read More links for the full story!
Primary Challenge Day at Caldecotte
On a damp morning 4 pupils from Primary, Siobhan, Sam, Mahin and Tony travelled to Caldecotte to join in the Challenge Day
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Post 16 pupils, together with a group of staff visit Twickenham to watch the British University’s Rugby Finals
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Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum and Narrow Boat Trip
An enjoyable and informative experience as part of our ASDAN Towards Independence accredited course 'Using Transport'.
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Y3/4 and Y5/6 trip to Mead Open Farm
As part of the Science Curriculum Y3/4 and Y5/6 visited Mead Open Farm
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Having fun at the beach during our Calvert Trust trip
A short video clip of students (and staff) enjoying a dip in the sea at Saunton Sands during the recent residential trip to The Calvert Trust, Devon.
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SNAP! SNAP! Primary students visit to Stables Theatre
SNAP! SNAP!
In May this year a small group of Primary pupils visited the Stables Theatre to attend and take part in the performance of a mini-monster musical!
The musical was based on a book by Colin and Jacqui Hawkins and tells the story of a little girl and the monsters she meets during the night. Before going to the Theatre, we read the story and listened to a CD of it so that we could take part in repeating phrases and copying the actions. We all really enjoyed this.
At the...
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The Chatterbox Group visit Potz Ceramic Studio
A group of students, who use high tech communication aids, enjoy a visit to a ceramic studio.
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A group of pupils and staff from Chestnuts and Willows went to The Stables Theatre to see Ensemble 360.
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In Humanities this term KS3 are learning about surprises. As part of the National Heritage Week one of the groups went to Milton Keynes Museum.
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Key Stage 3 trips to Northampton Museum
Key Stage 3 made two visits to Northampton Museum last week; Chestnuts on Tuesday, 5th May and Willows and Rowan the following day. On both occasions, we spent the morning there with a specific purpose in mind: to find out what we could about The Romans from the resources available to us at the museum. This information-gathering visit was to start us off on our theme this term which is “Past Times” the focus of which is, at present, The Romans. Over the course of the term, we will also be...
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Calvert Trust Residential 19th - 26th June 2009
A selection of great photographs showing some of the many activities we enjoyed during our residential trip.
Click 'Read More' and then click on one of the photographs to view the images in a slide show format.
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Calvert Trust Residential 11th - 18th June 2010
A selection of photographs showing how much we all enjoyed the activities and outings during our visit to The Calvert Trust, Exmoor.
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Calvert Trust Residential 8th - 15th October 2010
A selection of photographs from the residential trip to The Calvert Trust, Exmoor for Post 16 students.
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During the Autumn Term Key Stage 3 have been learning about The Rainforest. A group of pupils went to visit The Living Rainforest in Newbury. They became explorers for the day.
At the rainforest we met our guide who took us around the rainforest pointing out animals, insects, trees and plants that were there. It was very interesting; we saw the trumpet plant which has a sticky centre in the middle which attracts mosquitoes and eats them, this helps prevent the spread of...
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Caldecotte Xperience for Secondary and Post 16
On Thursday 17th March as part of our Healthy Living Week activities the whole of the Secondary and Post 16 department went to the Caldecotte Xperience to take part in some exciting activities.
The activities included:
Sailing
9 pupils enjoyed a morning on the water. We used the specialist access boats to ensure that everyone could take part. Four pupils went in the access boats each with a member of staff and floated across the lake, there wasn’t a lot of wind on the day so the...
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KS4 visit to the Zainabiya Islamic Centre, Granby
This term the KS4 pupils have been learning about different religions and their different places of worship as part of their Religious Education ASDAN work.
In March, Hazel and Palms classes visited the Zainabiya Islamic centre at Granby in Milton Keynes. When we arrived at the centre, we were met by Shelina and Zohrain,who were our hosts. The mosque is a modern building, but built in the Islamic style with golden domes on the roof.
Before entering one of the main rooms of the mosque, everyone...
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KS4 students recently visited City Limits Bowling Alley to take part in a game of Bowling as part of the work for their ASDAN Module – we were covering the element that states students should visit a sports centre and take part in an activity.
At 10am we all boarded the mini buses and traveled the short distance to the Xscape building. When we arrived at the Bowling alley some of the students helped to collect the special non slip shoes that we had to wear. The rest of the students got...
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June 2011 Residential Visit to The Calvert Trust
Once again 6 students accompanied by a group of staff spent a week in June at The Calvert Trust, Exmoor, Devon. We participated in a whole host of different activities including, climbing, abseiling, crate stacking, canoeing, sailing, swimming, horse riding and tried our hands at bushcraft where we learnt how to make a fire out of wood from the forest and how to light it using a flint.
Everyone had an amazing time and the students all embraced the different challenges presented to them with great...
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Palms end of term visit to Stockwood Discovery Centre, Luton
For our end of term trip we visited Stockwood Discovery Centre at Luton. One of the reasons for visiting the museum is that it is accessible to all students and is also self contained; therefore all of our class were able to go, including Mathew and Abraham, who are going up to Post-16 in September.
We started our visit by looking at the Mossman Collection, which is an exhibition of horse drawn vehicles of all descriptions, and also a few cars. We were able to sit in a number of vehicles...
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Bluebells end of term visit to Emberton Park
As part of our topic on “Happy Holidays” and for our end of year class trip, we visited Emberton Park on 23rd June 2011 for an all day visit.
As you can see from our photographs the sun shone and we had a wonderful day out.
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Woburn Safari Park
In July a group of Post 16 students visited Woburn Safari Park as part of their Out in the Community Asdan module. They were kindly given tickets by one of the school transport drivers. Everyone had a good time looking at the animals and the highlight of the outing for the students was watching the monkeys jumping on cars and coaches.
A trip to Bletchley
As part of the Using Leisure Time module Frank, Drew, Daniel, Christian and staff had an outing to Bletchley...
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