Trips
Summer term
Year 8 Art Study trip to All Saints’ Church, Tudeley
Year 8 Chemistry Salters’ Festival, University of Brighton
Year 8 Physics Study trip to Herstmonceux Castle
Year 8 Spanish Study trip to Valencia
Year 8 YoungSox Holiday to Tolo, Greece
Years 8-9 Enrichment Week Study trip to Bletchley Park
Year 10 Classics Study trip to Pompeii and Naples
Year 10 English Theatre trip to Macbeth
Year 10 Geography Field trips to East Sussex and Iceland
Lower Sixth Biology Field trips to Mexico and Wildwood
Lower Sixth English Literary trip to Dublin; Theatre trip to Julie
Lower Sixth Geography Urban field trip to London
Lower Sixth History Chalke Valley Festival
Lower Sixth Philosophy Karl Marx Walking Tour of London
Lower Sixth Psychology Study trip to Bethlem Museum of the Mind
Sixth Form Classics Study trip to Rome
CCF Field days for Army, Navy and RN; Summer camp
Debating ICYD finals, Oxford
DofE
Gold qualifying expeditions to the River Severn, Snowdonia
and Croatia; Silver qualifying expedition to the Peak District;
Bronze practice expedition, Kent; Bronze qualifying expedition,
South Downs
Entrepreneurship Microsoft Accelerator Business Planning Competition
Hockey Pre-season training camp to South Africa
Music Sennocke Consort tour to Tuscany
Rugby Pre-season tour to Hong Kong and Australia
Service PROMO trip to Mumbai; Refugee donations in Calais
Shooting Full-bore meeting, Ashburton
Ph ysics S T U DY T RIP TO F lorida
Year 9 Physicists and three teachers had a wonderful trip to Florida
in the Christmas holidays to further increase our knowledge, visiting
places such as Wonderworks and the Orlando Science Center, and
enjoying a behind-the-scenes tour at SeaWorld.
At the iFly indoor skydiving centre we had an
interesting class on flight, terminal velocity and forces,
then observed experiments in the wind tunnel (winds
approaching speeds of 100mph) before having the
amazing opportunity to fly in the wind tunnel aided by
the instructor.
At Wonderworks, we enjoyed exploring more than
100 hands-on exhibits that challenged the mind and
sparked the imagination. Who could forget Mr Tate
lying on a bed of nails! We also visited the Orlando Fire
Department Museum and the Orlando Science Centre
where there were four floors of exciting exhibits, giant
screen movies and hands-on science stations.
Disney World’s Epcot Centre is dedicated to
technological innovation and international culture
and we had a fantastic time visiting Future World and
the World Showcase; and the fireworks display was
literally awesome!
Finally, the Kennedy Space Center, ‘where risk takers
defy gravity and dreamers become heroes’. We saw
the active launch area where Apollo missions inspired
a generation and stood nose to nose with the Atlantis
space shuttle which helped build the International
Space Station and advance the Hubble Space Telescope.
We also enjoyed a special astronauts’ hands–on
training session with simulation technology, where
some of us in the mission control room had to ensure
the safe landing of our friends in the shuttle simulator.
Meeting veteran NASA astronaut Winston Scott,
and hearing about his space adventures, followed by
a question and answer session, was another special
highlight. It was a truly exciting and memorable trip
for us all.
Maureen Connolly
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