Extra Curricular

International
Foreign visits are very popular and serve to improve language skills and give valuable experience of working with fellow students and teachers in a non-school, residential environment. The Languages Department regularly runs educational visits abroad, particularly to France and Germany. In addition, each year over 100 students take part in ever-popular skiing holidays.

We also have an exchange programme with the Pudong Foreign Language School in Shanghai and are currently developing a further such programme with a South African school. Through the exchange of information via letters, e-mail and reciprocal visits of teachers and students these relationships add an extra dimension to the curriculum.

Visits
In addition to those international links already mentioned, the school has a tradition of offering a wide and varied programme of visits during school hours, after school and during weekends and holidays in support of the curriculum. A typical range of visits may include Creative and Performing Arts visits to New York, Chemistry Camp, Geography fieldwork in Wales, History fieldwork in Chester, Business Studies visits, a series of theatre trips throughout the year, poetry trip to the Battlefields of Northern France, Art & Design visits to art galleries in London, Liverpool and Manchester and Humanities visits to local historical sites.