The Best School Trips in the Independent Sector
Forget dull trips to the local museum ? these excursions have seen pupils travel to some extraordinary places, writes Natalie Keeler
Greenfield School, Woking
Greenfield School?s trip to Iceland proved the perfect vehicle for challenging the pupils? enthusiasm for all things geographical. Before they had even left the UK, a study day organised by Head of Geography, Sophie Pullen saw the children learn about concepts that would be covered on their four-day adventure.
Children from Years Four, Five and Six prepared scrapbooks to use as learning and reflection journals on the trip. And seeing the wonderful spectacles Iceland has to offer on the interactive whiteboard certainly proved enough to excite the pupils as they arrived at Gatwick Airport on a very early, cold morning. ?When we landed in Iceland, we found that the landscape was like that of another planet,? said David Brown, Deputy Head of Greenfield School. ?Swathes of nothingness and barren unfertile land soon gave way to the most spectacular features of nature on Earth.?
First of all, they visited Saga Museum, where they learned about Iceland?s history ? from its first population in the ninth century, through the Viking period to the present day. It was off to Iceland?s famous south shore tour on day two, where children were treated to the brute force of two towering waterfalls; the Seljalandsfoss waterfall proving the most popular, as they were able to go behind it to see its magnificence up close.
Above, pupils pre...
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