Day Trips and Residentials

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.

Residential Trips at Weston Green School

At Weston Green, residential trips are a key part of the Upper Prep experience, designed to develop independence, teamwork, resilience, and water confidence, ensuring children are prepared for secondary school and beyond. Each year group takes part in carefully planned trips that blend exciting outdoor challenges with opportunities to build personal and social skills.

• Year 3: Pupils begin their residential journey with an overnight stay focused on building independence and trying new activities. They participate in woodland survival challenges and climbing, while gaining their first taste of water-based activities, fostering confidence and excitement for future adventures.
• Year 4: During a three-day, two-night residential, pupils fully embrace water-themed challenges such as kayaking, raft building, and riverside exploration. These activities help to build resilience, teamwork, and water confidence. Evenings are spent bonding around a campfire, and pupils sleep in shared accommodation.
• Year 5 and Year 6: Older pupils spend a week at an outdoor adventure centre that offers advanced water-based activities, including canoeing, paddleboarding, and river exploration. These experiences ensure they leave Weston Green confident in and around water, while also developing key skills such as leadership, communication, and risk management.

By the time pupils leave Weston Green, they are not only confident in water-based activities but also equipped with the independence and resilience needed to thrive at secondary school