National & International Trips

Paris

In the autumn term of each year, our Modern Foreign Languages department run an annual trip to Paris as part of our enrichment programme. This visit is an amazing opportunity for our students to experience a different culture and visit a variety of iconic venues. Students are able to use the visit to complete multiple parts of their experience passport including visiting a place of worship, a heritage site and an international visit.

The key priority of the trip is for students to experience a large globalised city by using and applying their second language in a live setting for the first time ever. This has a huge impact on their confidence as well as raising aspirations.

We stay at Château de Grande Romaine, which is just 20 miles from Paris, meaning we aren't far away from all the inspiring cultural experiences the city has to offer:

• Fontainebleau town trail and Brie Comte Robert market visit with an opportunity speak to French people and buy local produce.

• Full day Disneyland Paris visit

• A chance to soak in the breathtakingly unique views of Paris from the 2nd floor of the Eiffel Tower.

• A relaxing boat ride along the river Seine.

• An opportunity to explore Paris.

• Nightly evening entertainment at the accommodation.

London Trip

In the autumn term of each year, students from across Years 8, 9 and 10 have the opportunity to take part in our annual trip to London: our country’s vibrant capital city. During this visit, pupils experience London in all its glory and indulge in a wide variety of activities that the capital city has to offer.

The students’ itinerary for this trip includes a wide range of opportunities to ensure our students experience an array of cultural and educational experiences - all while having fun and making life-long memories. Highlights of this trip include a ride on the London Eye, watching a west-end musical and a trip to one of London’s renowned museums. The accommodation is a hotel in the heart of the city and students navigate between excursions by bus or, where suitable, a guided walk through the streets seeing the bustle of London first-hand.

This trip is a great opportunity for students to compare life in the capital city to life in our local city, Hull, all while experiencing some of London’s most exciting attractions. 

Verona Trip

Our English and Food Technology departments lead an annual trip to the beautiful Italian city of Verona in the spring term. Once settled into their accommodation, students spend three days exploring the city of Verona including the Shakespearean sites of Juliet's Balcony, Juliet's Tomb and Juliet's Statue. Romeo and Juliet is our KS4 GCSE text and therefore it's a great opportunity to learn more about this prolific literary masterpiece and its history. 

Students also participate in Italian cooking classes, learning how to make classic Italian pasta followed by the most enjoyable part, taste testing their efforts. Another renowned Italian food is gelato and students, on this trip, enjoy taste-tasting a range of local flavours as part of a gelato masterclass. This truly is the experience of a lifetime that will truly broaden their horizons.

Italy Trip

For our annual ski trip, upon arrival in Italy, the group are greeted with breathtaking views of snow-covered mountains and crisp alpine air. They are then taken to their accommodation in a charming ski resort where they have the opportunity to settle into their hotel with stunning views of the slopes. After a warm welcome and a delicious Italian meal, students receive their ski equipment and are given an introduction to the exciting week ahead.

Each day begins with a hearty breakfast before students head out for their daily ski lessons with professional instructors.  Beginners start with the basics: learning how to balance, stop and control their movements on the gentle nursery slopes. Intermediate skiers work on improving their turns, speed control and building confidence on steeper terrain.

By the end of the week, everyone makes amazing progress with many beginners confidently skiing down slopes they never thought possible at the start - including red slopes!

After long and active days on the slopes, the fun continues in the evenings. Students enjoy delicious Italian cuisine and traditional alpine dishes to refuel after a day of skiing. Evenings are packed with entertainment including quiz nights, games, a disco and a rewards presentation event to end the week’s fun.

Iceland Trip

This term, 34 students were given an opportunity to experience geographical experiences in the country of Iceland. The students travelled to Manchester Airport for their flight to Keflavik with excitement of visiting one of the newest landmasses in the world. Arriving into Iceland, students got stuck into exciting excursions starting off with a bus journey driving through the capital city of Reykjavik through to the Pingvellir National Park, a protected area of Iceland also known as 'Iceland's Forest'. Students had their first experience of Iceland’s true natural processes by experiencing standing between a tectonic plate margin, where the Eurasian Plate and North American Plate meet. Students then travelled to see Kerid Crater, a crater that last erupted 6,000 years ago, students walked around the extinct volcano and took in its extraordinary beauty. The next day commenced with waterfalls and more exhilarating sceneries of Iceland on the agenda. Firstly, we visited the most famous, largest waterfall of Iceland, Gullfoss. Also known as 'the waterfall of light', Gullfoss has two tiers showing all of its beauty, even showing a rainbow for all of the students to enjoy. Students then visited the Geysirs, natural hot springs bubbling from the heat of the Earth's mantle, a truly explosive experience for our students that could see the natural world in all of its glory. We then travelled south of Iceland into the rural, remote areas passing volcanoes, rivers and glaciers, finally reaching the magnificent glacier of Solheimajokull, walking on glacial till and observing large crevasses, students found this truly breath-taking. The last part of the trip was the adventurous waterfalls that stood high in the Icelandic landscapes, Skogafoss and Seljalandsfoss where students experienced walking behind a waterfall.