Educational Visits

Educational visits are an integral part of the extended curriculum in our sixth form, with a focus on both student enjoyment and the consolidation of classroom learning. This is reinforced by the statistics in the last academic year: 87 trips in total, including 15 residential visits (6 overseas), with opportunities for sixth form to be included in 10 of these. Forthcoming or completed off-site day events and trips for the sixth form, currently stand at 13, with many more applications for events and visits being submitted for the remainder of the academic year.

A wide variety of day visits to theatres, museums, competitions, lectures, art galleries and universities offer our students the opportunity to broaden their horizons, boost self-confidence and enliven their learning. A particular area of success has been the development of local visits related to the Langton Extended Curriculum, with project afternoon visits in the arts, humanities, technology, mathematics and science all extending the student experience. National residential visits are firmly established in the sixth form programmes of study with confirmed opportunities in this academic year for a geography field trip at an accredited field centre, an English study visit to Stratford-upon-Avon and a DT/business studies production line factory tour. Year 12 students also have the chance to participate in Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award and attend the accompanying expeditions to Wales. International visits also continue to flourish, with trips undertaken or forthcoming in this academic year to the German Christmas markets, Paris for art and textiles students and language study tours to Salamanca and Lyon.

This all reflects our enthusiastic and committed trip leaders who continue to seek out and establish fantastic trip opportunities to local, national and international locations.

Safely managed educational visits with distinct outcomes are a vital part of a comprehensive and balanced curriculum. They provide an opportunity to extend the learning of students, including an enhancement of their understanding of themselves, others, and the world around them. They can be a catalyst for improved personal performance, promote a lifetime interest and, in some cases, lead to eventual career choices.

As a school, we use the KCC EVOLVE system to administer school visits and it is therefore our primary means of communicating information to parents and guardians.

There are many advantages of using EVOLVE:

• It enables you to be confident that information about potential visits is received immediately it is sent

• Consent forms can be read, completed and submitted electronically and not lost in school bags

• A copy of the completed consent form will be emailed to you

• It is environmentally friendly

Should your child be invited to participate in a school visit, you will receive a communication from Evolvekentvisits which will include full details on an attachment. This will be a secure encrypted link via the email address you have supplied to the school, and you will be prompted to complete the consent form online. Should you encounter any problems, there is a parent guide on the Evolve website.

Parent/guardian guide to Evolve