Trips & residentials

At Dollis, we go to great lengths to ensure that the experiences offered to our children are exciting and engaging. This is because we aim to achieve a broad and balanced curriculum for all pupils.

Out of classroom experiences

Children learn in different ways, and we support these varied learning styles by offering a range of trips and residentials. While these are not a statutory part of the National Curriculum, they present a huge range of benefits such as:

Positive Academic Impact: To take a concept studied in class and be able to present it in a real life scenario is extremely powerful. To be able to stand in a museum, or a historic place of interest, and imagine oneself living at that time, adds a huge amount of context to the learning in the classroom.

Motivates and excites: Educational trips have an added dimension to them which further motivates and excites the students in their learning; a trip to The Tower of London could be the catalyst for a student wanting to become a historian when they are older.

Personal and Social Growth: Educational visits and residentials assist the students in developing their self-confidence, independence, responsibility and social skills by navigating new environments and scenarios together. 

Broader Perspectives: With the presentation of different environments and settings the students involved can develop new ideas or a deeper understanding of the world around them.

Most importantly, educational trips and residentials create life long memories for the students, ones that they will carry with them through life. 

Planning and preparation

In planning for educational trips, careful consideration is put in place about the location and purpose of the trip. Wherever we go we must ensure that it is going to benefit and support the delivery of the curriculum in school. 

In most cases, the main body of learning will be delivered to the children prior to the trip itself, thus allowing them to benefit from asking searching questions and applying the knowledge that they already have. However, in some cases, a visit will take place prior to or at the beginning of the learning in class. To support our curriculum we plan a range of different trips. Here are some examples: