Residential Visits and Trips
Residential outdoor education has numerous benefits for school children. Team bonding activities, individual skills development, confidence building outdoor pursuits, plus the experience of living together 24 hours a day, all combine to ensure each and every student will benefit from a residential school trip.
Away from home, perhaps for the first time, school residential trips form such an important part of growing up and are the perfect opportunity for a valuable learning experience.
At Halebank C E Primary, we are proud to offer all children from Year 2 upwards the opportunity to go on a school residential visit wherever and whenever possible. School residential visits provide children with many wonderful experiences and memories. They help children to develop their independence, learn new skills and visit places they may never get to go!
In the school year 2024-5 our Year 2 pupils spent a night in Delamere Forest and our Year 5/6 children had the opportunity to spend 2 nights in York.
2025-2026 is very exciting. The Year 2 children will have another adventure in Delamere Forest, exploring the great outdoors. Year 3 and 4 children are very excited to go to London while Year 5 and 6 are going to Winmarleigh Hall in Lancashire.
As well as school trip we are keen to offer a range of trips both locally and further afield.
School trips can offer lots of different benefits for school children. Not only do they provide an opportunity for pupils to learn outside the classroom, but they also help to develop their social skills, increase confidence, and encourage personal development. They can help develop students' self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-belief. It gives young people the chance to experience cultures, respect differences, and develop new friendships with their peers and thus broaden their horizons and knowledge.
Cultural Capital is “the essential knowledge that pupils need to be educated citizens, introducing them to the best that has been thought and said and helping to engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement.”
Within school, a key way of increasing cultural capital is to organise events, workshops and speakers who will give our children experiences of life beyond the school and community walls.
