Senior School Trips

Find out about our educational visits and trips

Day trips

We run a variety of day trips to broaden your child’s horizons. For our 2023-24 schedule, we have arranged:

• Art – visits to London galleries
• Biology – trips to Kew Gardens and Whipsnade Zoo, with an Epping Forest field trip
• Chemistry – a trip to a cosmetics laboratory
• Classics – trips to St Albans Cathedral and the Verulamium Museum, Colchester Museum and the British Museum
• Computing – visits to the STEM Discovery Centre in Hertfordshire, Bletchley Park, an MS coding trip to London, the National Museum of Computing, Spymissions and the Amazon, Facebook and Google offices in London
• Drama – several theatre productions and musicals in London, including Regent’s Park open-air theatre
• DT – we take part in Product Design in Action, along with a visit to the New Designers graduate design show, both in London
• Geography – a trip to Kew Gardens, NEA field work at the coast, considering London’s sustainability and learning about tectonics at the National History Museum
• History – trips to St Albans Cathedral and the Verulamium Museum, Hampton Court and the Old Operating Theatre Museum in London
• Languages – a German visit to the British Film Institute, plus a Spanish trip to the Hispanic Theatre Festival
• Maths – visits to Bletchley Park and Spymissions, Maths Inspiration, Maths in Action plus Cambridge University
• Music – a concert in London
• PE – a trip to see the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships at Glasgow, along with another for a netball fixture
• Physics – Spymissions, STEM Science Live lectures, Physics Live plus a Space Spectacular at a planetarium
• Religion and Philosophy – trips to see religious art at the National Gallery, visits to the Jewish Museum or Imperial War Museum, Aylesford Priory, the Brent Sikh Centre/BAPS Shree Swarminarayan Mandir and the Jewish London Experience

Residential trips

There are whole-year residential trips in each of the first three years of Senior School. Many of our residential trips focus on the curriculum (such as language trips, biology field trips and visits to historical sites). Yet there are also cultural and sporting trips to be enjoyed.

Some excursions stay fairly close to home, in the UK and Europe, while others have taken students as far as India or North America. For 2023-24, we have arranged:

• Art – four days in Cornwall
• Classics – a visit to Athens, Delphi and Olympia
• English – a creative writing weekend at Haworth in Yorkshire plus a trip to the trenches in Northern France and Belgium
• History – a trip to the trenches in Northern France and Belgium
• Languages – homestay study trips with cultural visits to Granada in Spain, Rouen in France, and Berlin and Düsseldorf in Germany
• Maths – a trip to Walsingham
• PE – a PGL netball tour in Wiltshire, plus a lacrosse tour in the USA
• Religion and Philosophy – a trip to Israel
• Pastoral trips – two trips to châteaux in France
• Sport – a ski trip to Vermont, USA