Year 5 Residential Visits
Holy Island
Year 5 travel to the north Northumberland coast in May each year for their annual residential trip. Staying in a local hotel, they visit many of the area’s attractions, including Lindisfarne Priory, Bamburgh Castle and the Grace Darling museum. They also carry out a seashore study on the beach at Bamburgh. These visits supplement the girls’ classroom work in geography, English, R.E., history and science and help them to develop their fieldwork skills. The trip concludes with a boat trip around the Farne Islands (which includes a landing, allowing a really close up view of the nesting birds) followed by fish and chips before the journey home.
Besides the learning opportunities that the trip provides, there is plenty of time set aside to have fun. Much time is spent on the seashore, building sandcastles and playing in the dunes, and evening activities include informal games such as rounders and a talent show.
For many of the girls, this will be their first chance to stay away from home with their friends. It always proves to be a memorable experience from which the girls derive great enjoyment and which they look back on with great satisfaction.