Year 6 French residential trip

Residential Trip 2019

France Wallace Fields Junior School

17-21st June 2019 Playing boules and cricket on the beach

Why France?

Experience the culture Try the French food Develop self – confidence Improve organisational skills Gain independence Try out language skills Have fun learning Visit a range of different places

Travel • Coach onto Ferry • Private Coach & Driver.

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(Please include travel sickness and instructions with medical form details)

Venue

• ARTES Centre • • • • • •

Ambleteuse Nr. Boulogne Enclosed Centre Gites with own bathroom Private Pool Dining Room

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Classrooms Open Areas

Gites hold around 6

Safety first

• Swimming-take our own first aider • Beach • Gites & Centre • Staff • Insurance • Group Ratios • Surrey CC (H&S) • Risk Assessment sent off to Surrey via the EVOLVE website and checked.

• Teaching staff are all first aid trained

Accommodation • • • • • • • •

Approx 6 per gíte En suite Storage Keyholder Room Inspection Boys/Girls Staff Gites Patrol

Food

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Traditional French cooking at Artes Centre

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Packed Lunches for day trips

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Purchase & preparation of their own lunch on one day (Budget set)

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Dietary Needs accommodated

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Open mind required

BBQ English / French

Limited for vegetarian food and very specific diets.

Trips and Visits • • • • • • • •

Wartime Cemetery Village Market Boulogne Beach Old Town Walls & Cathedral Goats’ Cheese farm Supermarket Aquarium Theme Park

Friendly chats-we’re here to lend an ear

Staffing isn’t finalised yet- but we take 6-7 adults with us.

Swimming

Children able to swim 25m Fully Qualified Staff (including first aid & rescue trained) Private access Private changing

War cemetery

Evening Activities

• Football (all weather pitch) • Rounders / Ball games

Diaries / Recounts Beach Walk Disco Swimming BBQ-French delicacies

La Coupole WW2 bunker

Time for the planetarium

Speaking French in the market-buying food to make our own lunch later

After the market-The competition begins!

Who can resist a snail at the snail farm?

DISCO time!

Bagatelle

We will celebrate any birthdays that occur during the trip!

What if my child does not go on the trip?

Key Points • • • • • • •

17-21th June 2019 Individual Passports EHIC card Medicines & Forms Cost: Approximately £360 – dependent on numbers and exchange rate (you provide 20 euros pocket money in named purse) First deposit due in 2 weeks after letter goes out (Oct).

Parentmail to all Y6 – for all forms and letters. Payment by Tucassi.

• 4 instalments - non returnable deposit.

…the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers.

“You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”

People, who enjoy what they are doing, invariably do it well.

Any questions?