Trips & Residential Visits
Day Trips
We have very regular outings and trips to many local venues like the MK Theatre, MK Museum and Campbell Park, joined by the excellent Part Trust rangers there. We also very often go beyond our city to galleries, museums and other exciting destinations like Cadburys World in Birmingham, The Space Museum in Leicester, and Woburn Safari Park. Every two years we take all the younger year groups to the beach for a day of fun in the beautiful sand at Walton in Essex. Meanwhile, on our doorstep, we often take our younger children to our wood over the road from Jubilee Wood to do Forest School-style activities in a lovely natural setting.
Residential Trips
We have two residential trips each year: Year 4 visit Everdon for two days in the beautiful Northamptonshire countryside, doing fun activities in the local meadows and forest. Meanwhile, Year 6 spend three days at Caldecotte, which includes exciting outdoor adventure activities like climbing, sailing and archery. We help a great deal with the cost of these overnight trips so that virtually all of our children, no matter what their home circumstances, are able to attend and join in the fun. These types of trips help the children to grow in confidence and deepen their friendships with each other.
Visitors to JW
Just as often, we let the entertainment come to us – each year a farm visits us in the playground; each autumn some alpacas spend the day with us; and outreach from the local zoo brings some reptiles and fascinating creatures to our classrooms. We have also had wonderful days in the company of professional authors sharing their writing techniques with our children for the day; actors playing the role of historical figures to help the children imagine what life was like in the past; and archaeologists teaching children how they can investigate history through digging for artefacts.
