Trips

Trips

At Bedford we pride ourselves on delivering a broad and balanced curriculum that is greatly enriched through a wide variety of experiences. All activities are designed to ensure that learning is real, vibrant, motivational and exciting. We place great emphasis upon learning beyond the boundaries of the classroom and we are keen to use educational visits as powerful catalysts for learning. Visits are organised throughout the year and form an important part of our children’s education.

Our 'Learning Away' experiences provide children with high quality learning opportunities which embed residential learning experiences as a fundamental element of the school curriculum and an entitlement for our pupils. Many of these are based at CHET, using the fantastic facilities they have to offer and using external partners and practitioners to further enrich the activities. Our aim is truly to bring the curriculum alive for the children.

Many of the activities are provided free or are part funded by the school and requests for voluntary donations from families. No child will be discriminated against if they are unable to make the voluntary donation. We hope you will support us as we embark upon this exciting project as we firmly believe it will support the education of our pupils. We also aim to provide parents with occasional opportunities to join us and the children at the venue for special events.

Summer Term Update

This year has seen an abundance of fantastic trips to inspiring places to support our termly areas of enquiry.

Our fabulous Foundation Stage have been on an exciting trip to the zoo to learn about animals and visited Derby park to support their learning about trees.

Year 1 had a brilliant time at Acorn Farm as part of their 'Farm Animals' theme and a wonderful day at Formby Woods as part of their 'Into The Forest' theme. They also visited Waterstones on World Book Day to encourage and inspire them to read. As part of their RE theme on 'Belonging' year one attended the christening of baby Maisie Doll at Christchurch.

Year 2 visited Chirk Castle as part of their 'Castles and Rascals' theme. They also had a trip down the river on the Mersey Ferries and visited Liverpool Museum to support their 'Night At The Museum' theme. To further enhance this theme, they spent an amazing two days at CHET living as archaelogists and discovering dinosaur fossils!

Year 3 visited the Maritime Museum as part of their 'Pirates' theme and will be going backstage at the Playhouse Theatre to support their theme 'Bedford The Musical'.

Year 4 went on a famous landmark tour of Liverpool to support their 'Magic Carpet' theme. They also spent the day living as Tudors at Tatton Hall and had a bugtastic day at Norton Priory to inspire them during their 'Bugs and Beasts' theme.

Year 5 visited FACT cinema to introduce their theme 'Back To The Future' and then spent a wonderful 2 nights at CHET living a wild west adventure! During Spring term they visited the planetarium at Liverpool Museum and dusing Summer trem they visited Chester Zoo. Year 5 also spent another day at CHET with children from 2 other local schools as part of our Learning Away community project.

Year 6 visited the Maritime Museum to support their 'World War II' theme and climbed a perilous mountain in the Ogwen Valley during their 'Climb Every Mountain' theme. They also spent an amazing week completing adventurous activities at YMCA Lakeside on Lake Windemere!

As you can see at Bedford we really do aim to bring the curriculum to life for our learners. I wonder where next year will take us?!