TRIPS AND VISITS at SSPP
The staff at SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School recognise the importance of providing a high quality education and are committed to providing educational opportunities that enable all children to enhance and enrich their learning in a variety of different ways. We recognise that the best way to learn is often by experiencing an event or action rather than by reading about or hearing it in a classroom. Therefore, we look to provide many opportunities for our children to have real life experiences utilising our many outdoor and off-site educational visits.
2023 Trips and visits we have enriched our learning with:
Manor Adventure - Year 4 residential
SSPP Church visit - Year 3
Liverpool Maritime museum - Whole school trip (Titanic)
Liverpool Cathedral - whole school
Ironbridge walk- Year 5
Black Country Museum - Year 4
Wrekin walk - Bronze age hillfort - Year 3
Pantomime time! - Reception and Y1/2
Previous range of Trips we have enriched our learning with:
- National Space Centre
- Wroxeter Roman Village
- Chester Zoo
- Blists Hill
- British Museum and Art Gallery
- Greenfields Farm Shops
- Walks around the local area
- RAF Cosford
- Think Tank Birmingham
- Sealife Centre
- Severn Valley Railway
- Home Farm
- Local Area Walks
- Exotic Pet Zoo
- Newport Fire Station
- Newport Post Box
- Arthog Outreach
- Trips to the Pantomime
Residential Trips
At SS Peter and Paul we currently run two overnight residential trips, a two night stay for our Year 4 children and a four night stay for our Year 6 children.
Over the past three years our Year 4 children have visited Culmington Manor, a Manor Adventure Centre in the South Shropshire Hills. There are a variety of activities that the children experience whilst they are at the centre all of which take part on their extensive 100 acre estate. Please feel free to visit the website to see more of the centre. Also we have a link to a school information sheet.
https://www.manoradventure.com/culmington-manor.php
Our Year 6 children have attended Arthog Outdoor Education Centre in North Wales for a number of years, this is a centre run by Telford and Wrekin Council. Arthog provides children with wonderful experiences which take place off site in a number of beautiful locations in Snowdonia National Park.
The children take part in a variety of activities including: rock climbing, gorge walking, canoeing, mountain walking, team building, beach conservation.
Please see their website for additional details
https://www.telford.gov.uk/aoec/site/index.php
During their stay at Arthog the children also have the opportunity of taking part in the John Muir Award which gives the children a chance to help with conservation, sharing their love of wild places and adventure as well as being responsible for leaving the natural environment as we find it. Please see below link for additional details of this award.
https://www.johnmuirtrust.org/john-muir-award
Outdoor Learning Day
In May 2019 we successfully ran our first Outdoor Learning Day as part of Outdoor Classroom Day. Outdoor Classroom Day is a global movement to inspire and celebrate outdoor play and learning, at home and at school. On Outdoor Classroom Day itself, which has two dates each year, teachers celebrate with a special day outdoors for their class. Please see website for additional information.
Our Outdoor learning day for 2023 will be held on Thursday 25th May.
https://outdoorclassroomday.org.uk/
As part of outdoor learning day we were able to provide learning in the outdoors for all children in school at our local Chetwynd Deer Park, which is also the location of our Forest School site.
https://chetwynddeerpark.co.uk/
There was a range of exciting activities for the children to take part in using a range of different providers including:
Arthog Outreach (canoeing, climbing wall and team building games)
Harper Adams (lego activity, sheep shearing)
Scrappies (creating natural art)
Aims
At SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School, we see Educational Visits and Outdoor and Adventurous Activities as an integral part of the children’s education. This is our chance to bring the curriculum alive and create magic moment that children can hang their knowledge and new learning on this helps them build the connections within and across their learning.
They offer opportunities to enrich the curriculum, enabling the children to have first-hand experience of a wide range of experiences and activities. On residential visits especially, there is opportunity to develop social skills which have a long-lasting beneficial effect. The many benefits to the children include:
- DEVELOPING KEY SKILLS
Using and applying knowledge, skills and understanding indifferent, realistic and exciting contexts. Developing the ability to work cooperatively.
Developing the ability to communicate successfully.
Showing initiative and a positive attitude.
Showing greater independence, moving towards self-reliance.
Becoming increasingly risk aware and increasing understanding and independent action.
Broadening horizons and raising aspirations.
Coping with failure or adversity.
- RAISING ACHIEVEMENT BY BOOSTING SELF-ESTEEM AND MOTIVATION
Raising self-esteem through successful participation and enjoyment.
Developing a positive attitude to learning.
Helping demonstrate strengths and understanding of limitations.
Encouraging responsibility.
Improving behaviour.
Addressing disaffection.
- DEVELOPING SOCIAL EDUCATION AND CITIZENSHIP
The ability to work with others, accept and support them, building relationships.
Learning to tolerate others and respect their views – understanding equal opportunities.
Learning to accept the consequences of their own actions.
Learning to defend their point of view.
Encouraging a commitment to voluntary service.
Exploring attitudes and values they will carry into adult life.
- PROMOTING EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
An appreciation of the natural world as a source of interest and challenge.
A concern for living things.
An understanding of the need for interdependence between people and the environment. Recognition of the effect of present actions on the future.
An increasing ability to access evidence and make personal decisions.
- PROMOTING HEALTH AND FITNESS AND A POSITIVE USE OF LEISURE
Developing a positive attitude to physical activities and a healthy lifestyle.
Developing and experiencing physical fitness and wellbeing.
Achieving success in physical activities.
Developing self-respect and self-discipline and the ability to cope with adversity
