We recognise the importance of learning that takes place outside the classroom and ensure that all students are given opportunities to learn in a wide range of contexts right from joining the school. A typical experience for a year 7 pupil in recent years would include:

• Visit to Battle Abbey to study context of the Norman Invasion
• A Theatre visit organised by the English department
• A day trip to Lille organised by Modern Foreign Languages (MFL)
• A Geography fieldwork visit to Lewes to study settlement
• A residential visit to Paris
• And a Science visit to the Natural History Museum.

By year 9, students are offered more residential trips including:

• Residential visit to Calshot Activities Centre to develop leadership skills
• Residential visits to Ypres and to Normandy to study WW1 and WW2 history
• 10 days visiting the West Coast of America (see video)

In years 10 and 11 students can participate in:

• Football trips to Villarreal (Slide show)
• Residential trips to Madrid - see video
• Geography fieldwork in Iceland
• Kayak expeditions to Alaska
• Work experience week in a job of their choice

A Sixth Form student can expect to have access to a whole range of academic conferences which will support his learning in most subjects as well as a wide range of cultural visits to Art Galleries, Theatre, Opera and Film. The Media Studies department has regularly visited New York.

The School has built links with Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir, a school in Kerala and we regularly offer three week student exchanges between the schools. The most recent development is to work with World Challenge to provide a Long Haul Expedition to Morocco for year 9 and 10 students and a Long Haul expedition to Namibia for year 11 and the Sixth Form in 2010. We believe that all of these experiences enrich the experiences of students and add to their personal and academic development.