Educational Visits and Visitors to the School
The curriculum will be enhanced, enriched and extended with visitors to school to meet the children and visits to shows, exhibitions and museums. In all cases, visits and visitors are organised by the staff and selected because they are of educational value. Visits to museums and exhibitions provide the children with opportunities to view and handle artifacts and sophisticated displays that would normally be beyond the resources of school. Visitors to school may include puppeteers, shoe-makers, dancers and provide authenticity to an area of learning. In all cases, parents are informed in advance about the visits. In many cases the costs are met by parents. Costs may sometimes be met by the school. We aim for all children to make an education visit or receive a visitor every term.
Residential Visits
We would like all children to make a residential visit every year. The length, location and nature of the visit will be age and developmentally appropriate for the year group and follow ourΒ vision. The following visits have been organised:
- Reception: Overnight camping, 1 night, with parents at school
- Year 1: Overnight camping, 1 night, without parents, at school
- Year 2: 1 night, overnight in the main house at Ufton Court
- Year 3: 2 nights, at Mill on the Brue, Somerset
- Year 4: 3 nights, at The Sustainability Centre
- Year 5: 4 nights, at Hooke Court, Dorest
- Year 6: 6 nights, at Rhos-y-Gwaliau in North Wales
Residential visits for our youngest children are more about sleeping in a new place and this provides sufficient adventure. For our 7 and 8 year-olds, visits may have activities that are more
adventurous such as orienteering and climbing.
Visits are therefore progressive and children at Evendons will have an expectation that they will have greater challenges and may accomplish more as they grow older.
Costs for all visits are met by parents. Families with pupils attracting a Pupil Premium Grant should discuss costs with Lucinda Graham or Stacey Read.
Safeguarding
For all visits, safeguarding checks are thorough. Risk assessments are carried out for every part of the visit. For more information contact our Headteacher Stacey Read.