School Trips and Visitors!
WALK TO SCHOOL SHOW!
This week pupils have thoroughly enjoyed a visiting performance exploring just how important it is to walk to school. Better for our health! Better for the environment! We understand not all families are in a position to be able to walk to school everyday but this fun and very enjoyable show explored how everyone can make a small change and help improve activity levels, road safety around school and help the environment. The children of Park Street won the show as a prize for their fabulous work during 'Walk to School Week'. Well done all.
Wombwell Park Street Primary School is highly committed to ensuring children have wonderful and enriched experiences both in school and in the wider community.
Educational visits form an important part of our curriculum as we firmly believe that children learn best when engaged in first hand experiences. All visits are organised following local authority guidelines and procedures. As a school we use a system called 'Evolve' for staff to use to ensure they have risk assessed any outing / experience in school. These extensive precautions are then reviewed by our Business Director and Headteacher.
Educational visits and experiences can not take place without the cost of such trips being funded by parents. Such contributions are purely voluntary (the phrase 'voluntary contribution' is used on letters) and parents will be informed of the cost to each child, should a visit / visit to be planned. The school subsidises educational visits and every effort is made to keep costs to a minimum. Some classes do fund raisers to raise money (eg selling products made by the children at coffee mornings or sponsored events etc) or use their 'class budget' to fund a trip. Staff endeavour to explain costing for the trip in initial letters to parents, helping them understand the ways and lengths to which trips are subsidised and equally explain what parents and children will get for their money. It is important to note that if the money is not fully raised, then there is a chance that trips / special visits or visitors may not be able to take place.
Because of our new online payment system (School Gateway), trips can be paid for all in one go or over a period of time, before the trip takes place, or in cash at the main school Office.
Some of the more recent trips include:
Nursery - Chatsworth Hall for their Nativity; end of year picnic in the park
Reception - Teddy Bear's picnic; Escafeld historic visit
Key Stage 1 - Bolsover and Conisbrough Castle; Dog's Trust visit; Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Year 3 - Murton Park and The Deep visit
Year 4 - National Space Museum; Elsecar Music Festival
Year 5 - Yorkshire Wildlife Park; History week in Wombwell visiting local monuments and parks
Year 6 - Crucial Crew; Cinema trip; Chocolate day
School Council - trip to Barnsley Town Hall to meet the Mayor
Social Speaking group - local café visits
Y1-6 - various weekly sporting trips with Mr Wall
Residential:
As well as this, school offers Year 5 children the amazing chance to go to Whitby on a residential trip. This has historically been led by Mrs L Longden, but Miss L Garratt is now taking this over! The class have a super time and stay at a local youth hostel. They visit the Abbey, the famous 'Magpie' fish and chip shop, go on a moonlit tour of the town centre, go crabbing and take part in team building events. This is always a really popular trip - with children, parents and staff! This provides an incredibly strong experience for the children to draw on back in school, where their topic is 'Whitby'.
Teachers try really hard to enrich our outstanding curriculum by including trips out and inviting visitors in. Please see our Curriculum pages too which show all the exciting opportunities that are on offer at Park Street!
Educational visits form an important part of our curriculum as we firmly believe that children learn best when engaged in first hand experiences. All visits are organised following local authority guidelines and procedures. As a school we use a system called 'Evolve' for staff to use to ensure they have risk assessed any outing / experience in school. These extensive precautions are then reviewed by our Business Director and Headteacher.
Educational visits and experiences can not take place without the cost of such trips being funded by parents. Such contributions are purely voluntary (the phrase 'voluntary contribution' is used on letters) and parents will be informed of the cost to each child, should a visit / visit to be planned. The school subsidises educational visits and every effort is made to keep costs to a minimum. Some classes do fund raisers to raise money (eg selling products made by the children at coffee mornings or sponsored events etc) or use their 'class budget' to fund a trip. Staff endeavour to explain costing for the trip in initial letters to parents, helping them understand the ways and lengths to which trips are subsidised and equally explain what parents and children will get for their money. It is important to note that if the money is not fully raised, then there is a chance that trips / special visits or visitors may not be able to take place.
Because of our new online payment system (School Gateway), trips can be paid for all in one go or over a period of time, before the trip takes place, or in cash at the main school Office.
Some of the more recent trips include:
Nursery - Chatsworth Hall for their Nativity; end of year picnic in the park
Reception - Teddy Bear's picnic; Escafeld historic visit
Key Stage 1 - Bolsover and Conisbrough Castle; Dog's Trust visit; Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Year 3 - Murton Park and The Deep visit
Year 4 - National Space Museum; Elsecar Music Festival
Year 5 - Yorkshire Wildlife Park; History week in Wombwell visiting local monuments and parks
Year 6 - Crucial Crew; Cinema trip; Chocolate day
School Council - trip to Barnsley Town Hall to meet the Mayor
Social Speaking group - local café visits
Y1-6 - various weekly sporting trips with Mr Wall
Residential:
As well as this, school offers Year 5 children the amazing chance to go to Whitby on a residential trip. This has historically been led by Mrs L Longden, but Miss L Garratt is now taking this over! The class have a super time and stay at a local youth hostel. They visit the Abbey, the famous 'Magpie' fish and chip shop, go on a moonlit tour of the town centre, go crabbing and take part in team building events. This is always a really popular trip - with children, parents and staff! This provides an incredibly strong experience for the children to draw on back in school, where their topic is 'Whitby'.
Teachers try really hard to enrich our outstanding curriculum by including trips out and inviting visitors in. Please see our Curriculum pages too which show all the exciting opportunities that are on offer at Park Street!
