Trips

We offer a selection of residential and day trips. Below is information on some of the trips we currently offer.

Residential trips
Ski Trip  – pre prep, prep and senior school

This is a week-long trip which has been successfully run for more than 15 years. We have visited a selection of resorts in France including Vars / Risoul, Les Menuires, La Plagne, and Alpe D’Huez. This trip takes place during the Spring Half term.

Venture Week – prep school

This is a residential 5-day trip for pupils in Year 6, which takes place during the summer term. The pupils look forward to the week, packed full of activities and adventures! For the last two years the trip has been organised through PGL.

Ypres, Belgium – History trip senior school

This is a biennial residential history trip, for pupils in Years 9 and 10, which takes place over a long weekend in June. During the trip pupils visit the World War One Battlefields, war cemeteries, trench systems, museums and Menin Gate.

Rugby Tour

Our rugby tour takes place over a long weekend in the autumn term and has, in previous years, visited Spain and Italy. Pupils play in organised rugby matches against local teams.

Barcelona – Language/Art trip – senior school

The cross-curricular trip to Barcelona has something for everyone and includes visits to Gaudi House, Las Ramblas and Nou Camp, visits to local markets and even time on the beach!

Day Trips

In pre prep and prep we take the pupils on a wide variety of day trips, including:

  • At Bristol
  • Chippenham Library
  • Hills Recycling
  • SS Great Britain
  • Clifton Suspension Bridge
  • Sevington Victorian School
  • Rocks East
  • Tetbury Police Museum
  • Buckingham Palace
  • Berkeley Castle
  • Corinium Museum, Cirencester
  • Longleat
  • Portsmouth Historic Docks
  • Swansea University Department of Egyptology
  • South Cerney Water Park
  • Montacute House
  • Houses of Parliament, Downing Street & National Gallery
  • Bristol Hippodrome
  • Wyvern Theatre, Swindon

In senior school we continue taking the pupils on day trips that are linked into their GCSE studies:

  • Cheddar Gorge & Cheese Factory
  • Imperial War Museum, London
  • Rushall Organic Farm
  • Warwick Castle
  • Natural History Museum
  • Geography trip to Lulworth Cove
  • Waddesdon Manor
  • Wadworth Brewery
  • Waterland
  • Stratford Theatre
  • New London Theatre
  • Cheltenham Everyman Theatre