Educational Visits

At Ryders Hayes going on educational visits means more than simply leaving the school grounds. Educational trips always have a major educational element, but the impact of educational trips extend much further. The importance of educational trips includes giving pupils the chance to: link their learning and apply to new context; build closer bonds with their peers; experience new environments, and enjoy a day away from the classroom.

Reinforcement: Our visits reinforce discussions in class and support children to better understand the topic.

Engagement: Teachers turn trips into mobile classrooms, allowing children to: collect data; find new sources of information and relate classroom learning, later creating low-state quizs or project-based learned from the visit.

Socialisation: Taking children into a new environment gives them the experience of traveling in a group; being responsible, teaches them to be respectful of members of the public, staff at the site and of the locations they visit.

Exposure: Children get to visit a place to which they have never been before; explore new horizons and develop their cultural capital.

Retention: The type of memories that educational trips create- episodic memories- help children to retain information for longer.

Nursery: Local area walks & Animal Experience

Reception: Trip to Hoo/Ash End Farm, Room on the Broom (in-school experience), Living Egg (in-school experience), Pirate Day (in-school experience)

Year 1: Animal lady (in-school experience), Birmingham Sealife Centre, Teddy Bear Picnic (in-school experience)

Year 2: Dudley Zoo & Castle, Theatre trip

Year 3: Birmingham Thinktank, Egyptian Man (in-school experience), Pedestrian Training, Overnight in the School Hall (team building activities and campfire).

Year 4: Residential Chase Water (2 nights), Cadbury World, Christingle Service

Year 5: RAF Cosford, Birmingham Safeside, Science Fair (in-school experience), Local canal visit

Year 6: Theatre trip, London Houses of Parliament, Residential Edgmond Hall (4 nights), Science Fair (in-school experience)

Other: Other trips will include Choir, attend workshops and concerts. Competitive sport teams' events throughout the year. Trips to local secondary schools for partnership events. ICT Green screen filming Y3 & Y4 - Shelfield Academy.