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Trips Away
Trips Away
Leighton Park offers a variety of day and residential trips for all year groups, in support of the academic curriculum as well as broadening experience culturally or in sport. Every effort is made to keep the costs to a level where as many pupils as possible can participate in memorable experiences. Year 8s recall the thrills of coasteering while students on the Sports Tour of South Africa will always remember coaching rugby and netball in a township school; the group who trekked in the Indian Himalayas will equally never forget working in the orphanage.
Fryer
Every year, Year 7 go to Warwick Castle and to the reconstruction of the Bayeux Tapestry at Reading Museum in support of the History Curriculum.
Year 8 go on a combination of residential and day trips each year to support their studies, these include visiting Portsmouth Harbour to study the historical ships and to Basing House and Milestones Museum. At the end of the year, as they prepare to move to the senior houses, pupils go on an adventure training trip in Pembrokeshire.
Both Year 7 and 8 also go on a day trip to Boulogne and Year 8 visit the Aachen Christmas Market.
Senior
Years 9 and 10 take part in long-standing French and German Exchanges with Leighton Park students going to Nantes and Hamburg and then the exchange students return to Leighton Park.
Year 10 experience first hand the scientific concepts behind the roller coaster rides by visiting Thorpe Park every year.
Year 11 Art visit Paris every year for 3 days to gain inspiration for their own artwork and to broaden their horizons of the art world.
In Years 10 or 11 GCSE Spanish students spend a residential week in Barcelona.
Sixth Form
There is a cultural trip taken every 2 years, in the past visiting India and China. A variety of other trips are undertaken to support Politics, History, Geography, Psychology to name a few. There is also an art trip every year to really experience the wonders of the art world for the Sixth Form students.
There are also numerous extra curricular trips undertaken such as the Choir and Orchestra during the summer months, (in 2008 visiting Denmark and Sweden), Sports trips (South Africa for Rugby and Hockey), and other trips such as skiing in \vermont, USA.
The international students visit other parts of Britain whilst they are here, such as Wales and Stratford-on Avon.
