Days of fun at Thames Young Mariners
Year 4 had a fantastic time on their recent trip to Thames Young Mariners. After a delayed start, we arrived early on Thursday morning and were [...] Read more
Visits, Outings and Workshops
Throughout the school year visits are made to many sites of interest. These change according to the curriculum but have included:
- Garsons Farm - pumpkin picking
- The Look Out Discovery Centre
- Imber Court Picnic and visit to the horses
- Hampton Court Palace
- Bocketts Farm
- Kew Gardens
- RHS Wisley Gardens
- Space Dome Experience
- British Museum- Egyptians trip
- Visit to the Natural History Museum (Earthquakes and volcanoes)
- Bignor Roman Villa
- Black history museum trip
- Chertsey Museum
- River Trip to Juniper Hall
- Brooklands Museum
- West Wittering beach trip
- Christmas theatre trips
- Parliament Trip
We welcome a wide variety of visitors to the school, amongst these have been:
- Hobgoblin performance and workshop
- Circus skills experience
- ZooLab - a range of insects and reptiles come to school for the children to learn about and hold
- African drums workshop
- Representatives from the Fire and Rescue service
- Author visits
- Music Workshops
We have special days when the children spend a whole day fully emmersed in the topic they have been learning about, which often include dressing up! Workshop days include topics such as:
- The Titanic
- The Seaside
- Crossing Continents and Oceans
- The Ancient Egyptians
- The Great Fire of London
- The Stone Age
- The Vikings
- The Tudors
- The Romans
- The Victorians
The pupils also use the local environment to support the curriculum and may be seen out looking at various types of houses, life on the local pond, conducting traffic surveys and of course getting into the natural world at Forest School.
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