Educational Visits

The school has always prided itself on the many curricular and co-curricular visits that it offers to students. We believe that there is more to education than just academic learning and our Educational Visits programme is integral to this belief. We offer a wide range of opportunities for all students to participate during their time at Challoner’s be it through our Enrichment programme, curriculum focussed visits or our annual Activity Week. 

We offer a wide range of both day and residential visits and you can access an overview of our programme HERE

Year 7 Teambuilding at UKSA, Isle of Wight

From Year 7 onwards educational visits form part of our provision. All our new Year 7 students are given the opportunity to take part in a teambuilding residential to the United Kingdom Sailing Academy (UKSA) where they met other new students, got to know their tutors and enjoy the activities.

Year 9 take part in one of a number of residential visits as part of Activity Week each May, including trekking in Morocco, canoeing down the Ardèche valley in France, or track cycling and watersports at the Calshot Activity Centre in Southampton. At the same time, Year 7 and 8 students participate in experiences closer to home including day visits to such venues as Bletchley Park, Whipsnade Zoo and Horseshoe Lake Activity Centre.  

We offer a number of curriculum based visits, giving students the opportunity to further enhance and extend their learning in a particular subject. These include the Year 9 History visit to the WW1 battlefields of France and Belgium; Year 10 Humanities visits to Berlin, Sicily and Krakow and our Art trip to Liverpool; language exchanges to France, Germany and Spain; and Sixth Form visits to Washington, Iceland and CERN, Switzerland.   

 (Visits: L-R: Geography-Iceland, RS-Krakow and Auschwitz. History- WW1 Battlefields, Washington, Geography-Sicily)

We also organise a programme of co-curricular visits, such as ski trips to Austria and sporting tours for cricket, football, hockey and rugby to destinations such as Holland, South Africa and Sri Lanka.

You can follow DCGS Visits on X here