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A Truly Personalised Enrichment Programme

At The Highcrest Academy we believe a rich extra-curricular programme enhances learning and helps our students to gain confidence and skills in diverse areas.  We offer over a hundred before-school, lunchtime and after-school clubs and activities, and also a wide variety of educational journeys which help to support academic and personal learning.

We believe that no matter how many clubs and trips that we offer that it is important that every child has the opportunity to participate. Our aim is to ensure that every student not only participates in our extracurricular program, but more importantly, participates in the enrichment activities that they personally require to close any gaps they may have in their life experiences.

School Trips

At the Academy, we offer a wide variety of offsite trips. Indeed, last academic year over 60 successful trips took place across all year groups.

Within our offer, there are many regular excursions that support our curriculum offer. The most popular of these include:

• A whole school ski trip with 50 students to Pila in the Aosta Valley.
• A thought-provoking and emotional trip to the World War I battlefield in Belgium (History)
• An exciting trip to Disneyland Paris, including behind the scenes opportunities (Drama)
• A trip to Naples and Rome with 44 students, walking 149,500 steps (History)
• A historical trip to Bletchley Park, the 19th century mansion used for code breaking during the Second World War (Mathematics and IT)
• A range of London theatre trips from Blood Brothers to Woman in Black (Performing Arts)
• Reward trips, such as national theme parks and Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland. 

Trips can be memorable and exciting experiences for students but safety is always our primary concern. The Highcrest Academy remains part of the BCC ‘Evolve’ network of trip booking and monitoring and the Visits Co-ordinator and Assistant have attended updated training, The Highcrest Academy has full insurances in place. Click here to view our School Trips Policy and parents are welcome to view our procedures for booking and approving trips.

Please note that all parental permission slips are tailored to the individual trip and therefore should you need an emergency reply then please contact Mrs Stokes at:  sstokes@highcrestacademy.org.uk.