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Educational Visits and Trips
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We have an exciting range of educational visits and trips; they offer enriching learning opportunities outside of the classroom. This list is an example of what we have on offer, it is in no way an exhaustive list with many other opportunities, including with the Boys’ School. Some of the trips are still in the planning phase. We have currently proposed 94 trips (69 day and 25 residential). Please note that all of the year groups listed refer to those from September 2023.
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Lower 4 Proposed visits: •
St Albans Abbey
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Verulamium Museum ( History and Classics departments)
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A religious centre visit (Religion and Philosophy department)
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Haberdashers’ Hall in London
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Legoland (Maths department - mechanics of rollercoasters)
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Spymissions (Maths department)
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Regents Park Open Air Theatre ( Drama department)
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Chateau de Warsy, France (residential trip)
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Upper 4 Proposed visits: •
Spymissions
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National Museum of Computing (Maths department)
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Bletchley Park (Maths department)
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London’s National Gallery (Religion and Philosophy department)
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PGL Netball week (PE department)
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Whipsnade Zoo ( Biology department)
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Hyde Park (Geography department)
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Goethe Institute (German department)
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Colchester Museum (Classics department)
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Chateau du Broutel, France for their residential trip next year.
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Lower 5 Proposed visits: •
Goethe Institute (jointly with Upper 4) with the German department
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The Lyric Theatre to watch a production of Metamorphosis
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PGL Netball week (jointly with Upper 4)
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Jewish Museum or Imperial War Museum (Religion and Philosophy)
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Cambridge University (Maths department) to hear from students, including Old Haberdashers, about studying Maths and the application of the subject beyond the theoretical.
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Kew Gardens (Biology and Geography)
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Northern France and Belgium to visit main World War 1 battlefield sites for their Lower 5 residential trip
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Middle 5 Proposed visits are directly relating to their GCSE curriculum: •
British Museum (Classics)
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National Museum of Computing (Computing)
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A London art gallery (Art)
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New Designers Show (DT)
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Southend for fieldwork (Geography)
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Epping Forest (Biology)
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The Jewish London Experience (Religion and Philosophy)
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STEM Science Live (Physics)
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An orchestral concert (Music)
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The Old Operating Theatre in London (History)
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Theatre visits will include performances of:
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Metamorphosis
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Gecko by Kin (Drama)
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A residential trip to Cornwall for GCSE Art students is also planned.
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Upper 5 Proposed visits: •
A London gallery ( Art department)
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A theatre piece relating to the Drama GCSE course
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An orchestral concert ( Music department)
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Various tech companies (Computing department)
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Southend and Borehamwood fieldwork (Geography)
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British Film Institute for a study day (German)
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STEM Science Live ( Physics department )
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Lower Sixth Proposed visits (some will be run jointly with Habs Boys) to enrich the A Level curriculum are: •
Palace of Westminster (Politics)
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A London gallery (art), Poetry, English Language, Psychology, Maths, DT and Physics Conferences in London
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Local fieldwork in Canary Wharf and residential fieldwork to Wales (Geography),
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Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (Classics)
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Loreal Young Scientist Centre (Chemistry)
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Freud Museum and phobias workshop at London Zoo (Psychology)
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Hispanic Theatre Festival (Spanish)
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Residential trips for Lower 6 students include: • CERN in Geneva (Physics) • Vienna, jointly with Upper 6 (Psychology) • Dusseldorf (German) • Snape (Drama) • Berlin (Arts Award)
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Upper Sixth Proposed visits: •
The Art department will run a residential trip
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Bethlem Royal Hospital visit (Psychology)
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Additionally, many of the trip opportunities open to Lower 6 students will also be available to those in Upper 6.
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Additionally we have: Languages
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All year groups will go to a competitive netball fixture in London
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Indoor Athletics Championships.
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Middle 5 and Upper 5 German students visiting Berlin
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Middle 5 and Lower 6 Spanish students visiting Granada
Other trips
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Middle 5 French students visiting Rouen
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A San Francisco and Silicon Valley visit is planned by the Computing department for the Lower 6 in the Summer.
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A possible Israel study trip is being investigated by the Religion and Philosophy in the Summer of 2024 for Middle 5 upwards.
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Lower 5 upwards planning to visit the Rhineland
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St Catherine Singers will sing Evensong at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge
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South East Schools Chamber Competition.
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A weekend residential retreat Lower 5 Norfolk
Continuing to look further ahead:
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Ski Trip - Middle 5 and Lower 6 students went to Canada Lacrosse Tour - Students will visit four cities in the USA
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Greece (Athens, Delphi and Olympia) in October 2024 (Classics department)
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GCSE History trip is also planned for October half term 2024.
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A potential Iceland residential trip in October 2024.
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