School Journeys

Learning outside the classroom is a vital feature of Post 16 study. We encourage our students to access independently the fantastically rich resources our capital city has to offer but we also organise a whole series of school journeys both within and beyond London.

For example, Year 12 geographers visit Swanage in Dorset for a week to carry out fieldwork. They visit two villages and the Boscombe surf reef to investigate urban and rural re-branding. They also research extreme weather and carry out river work and link it with the flood alleviation scheme. They work with professionals in the area including an expert in managing flood risk from the Environment Agency. Recently, a group of aspiring writers received bursaries from an anonymous benefactor to attend an Arvon Foundation residential writing workshop in Shropshire where they created poems and prose for a wonderful self-published booklet. The Creative Writing Group that these students helped to establish is still going strong.

Open publication - Free publishing - More writing

In previous years we have taken art students to a wide range of great cities including Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Florence, Rome and New York. Visiting galleries and museums in London is a central feature of the art, art & design and photography courses.

The Year 12 Media and AS Film Studies students attend a conference in Disneyland Paris in order to support their industry studies. The speakers include journalists from Al Jazeera, the BBFC, CNN and the Disney Corporation themselves.  Historians have also joined forces with Film students on several visits to Berlin. The highlights of the visit include excursions to the Story of Berlin, The Jewish Museum, Check Point Charlie, the Stasi Prison. Business students engage in a series of visits that take them to numerous locations across London to work with professionals in the sector. Languages students have recently returned from Southern France, having sampled the delights of Olron, La Rochelle and Paris. Drama students perhaps hold the record for the number of school journeys they attend in any given term. Barely a week goes by without a trip to the theatre to see world class productions and work by up and coming playwrights. The English trips to Whitby and Haworth are legendary.

Some lucky students were selected to represent London at the Creativity World Forum in Oklahoma in November 2010 where they met Sir Ken Robinson, created a Pop Up School and collaborated with students from Howe High School.

Travel broadens the mind, or so the old saying goes. This is why we really value the kind of learning that takes place outside the classroom and why our students have such an enriching education on their Post 16 courses.