Trips in Year One

Local Village Walk

As part of their learning about the local area, Year 1 children enjoy an engaging village walk around Baldwins Gate. During the walk, they explore key features of the community, including the pond, pub, post office, village shop, park, and railway line. This hands-on experience helps them understand how a village is structured, the role of different places within it, and how these contribute to everyday life. It's a fantastic way to bring geography and community studies to life in a familiar and meaningful setting. This will help the children in Year 1 to further explore their local geography skills through fieldwork. 

Cosford RAF Museum

A Year 1 workshop on flying equipment through the ages, coupled with museum exhibition exploration, will directly support their "Explorers and Inventors" topic by providing tangible examples of historical innovation and the evolution of flight, fostering deeper understanding of how past inventions have shaped our world. This Trip will help us focus on our history learning of inventors and explorers. 

Nantwich Museum 

Becoming "Tudor History Detectives" in Nantwich, handling Tudor artefacts and role-playing, will provide Year 1 with a hands-on, immersive experience of historical life, building a strong foundation for understanding the social context and everyday life of the period, which will then be used to compare and contrast with the events of the Great Fire of London, even though it happened later. This will help us with our history unit around the fires of London and Nantwich. 

Seaside

A Year 1 trip to the Great Orme will transport them back to a Victorian seaside adventure, immersing them in the historical context of their topic while enjoying the traditional delights of a tram ride and ice cream, bringing the past to life through sensory experiences. This will help us to explore fieldwork skills within our geography learning and our historical learning of Victorian Seaside life.