Dates: October half term, three nights, 2024

Launch date: Start of summer term, 2024

Visit Leader: Miss Blackwell, Director of Music and Performing Arts

For years: Lower 5 to Upper Sixth

Approximate cost: TBA

Travel company: TBA

Rough itinerary: Theatre and opera in the evenings. In the day – backstage tour, workshops, museum visit

Dates: 22nd to 26th October 2024

Launch date: Launched

Visit Leader: Dr Keen, Head of Classics

For years: Upper 3 to Upper Sixth (Latinists and Classicists)

Approximate cost: £1300

Travel company: Nimrod Tours

Rough itinerary:

Visiting Ancient Sites: Oplontis, Pompeii, Herculaneum, the Villa Jovis on Capri, admission to the amphitheatre at Puteoli and admission to the Villa San Marco/Villa Arianna.

Dates: November 2024 to May 2025

Launch date: September 2024

Visit Leader: Mr Tabb, Head of Humanities

For years: Lower 5 (35 mile) and Lower Sixth (45 mile)

Approximate cost: £20 per day of training attended, and £10 per overnight camp

Travel company: N/A

Rough itinerary:

The Maynard training programme builds experience, skills and stamina over seven training weekends, between Nov and May, culminating in the Ten Tors Challenge in May.

Dates: 14th to 18th February 2025

Launch date: February 2024

Visit Leader: Mr Tabb, Head of Humanities

For years: Open to students in Lower 5 or above from September 2024 who are studying History

Approximate cost: £1600

Travel company: Halsbury Travel

Rough itinerary:

Our New York trip will include visits to locations of direct relevance to our students’ studies: including a guided tour of the United Nations, visits by boat to Ellis Island and Liberty Island to learn about US immigration and diversity, staying in Manhattan and visiting the Empire State Building, as well as exploring the lives of those who were not so fortunate in the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. We will tour Wall Street and the financial district, visit the 9/11 Memorial and Museum and visit the Metropolitan Museum. We also plan to include some ‘down time’ in this very busy schedule, taking in a Broadway show, eating out each night (including in Times Square), ice skating in Central Park and even a little shopping too!

Dates: 14th to 22nd February 2025

Launch date: January 2024

Visit Leader: Dr Henderson, Teacher of Mathematics

For years: Lower 4 to Upper Sixth

Approximate cost: £1700

Travel company: Ski Astons

Rough itinerary:

We’re going skiing! 45 pupils, accompanied by five members of staff and five ski tutors, will hit the slopes of the Zillertal in the Tyrol region of Austria. Staying at the Hotel Alpenblick in Radfeld, we will ski every day in the morning and afternoon (with a hot lunch on the mountain!) and finish the day with a fun-packed evening entertainment activity – this could be swimming, bowling, a disco or an Austrian themed “Tyrolean night”! The trip is open to all standards of skier and we encourage girls who have never skied before to come; it is great fun to learn to ski with a group of your friends. Equally, more competent skiers will be challenged in the top group by our dedicated team of ski tutors. See you on the slopes!

Dates: June 2025

Launch date: September 2024

Visit Leader: Miss Williamson, Head of Geography and Deputy Head of Sixth Form

For years: Lower Sixth (Geographers only)

Approximate cost: £360

Travel company: N/A

Rough itinerary:

Day 1 – Rebranding in Llanberis and tour of Lechwedd slate caverns (changing spaces, making places)
Day 2 – Upland Glaciation, Cwm Idwal and the Nant Francon Valley. Lowland Glaciation-Pentir Esker, Till Cliffs at Aber Ogwen
Day 3 – Carbon fieldwork and changing spaces in Betws Y Coed-travel to Birmingham
Day 4 – Urban fieldwork-regeneration of Birmingham city centre and Digby as a cultural quarter

Dates: 12th to 24th July 2025

Launch date: September 2023

Visit Leader: Miss Cousins, Teacher of PE

For years: Upper 4 to Upper 5

Approximate cost: £2700

Travel company: Edwin Doran

Rough itinerary: TBA

Dates: July 2025

Launch date: October 2024

Visit Leader: Mrs Dersley, Teacher of Mathematics

For years: Lower Sixth

Approximate cost: £1600

Travel company: Dynamic Adventures

Rough itinerary:

Arrive in Slovenia – day to shop for expedition, settle into country and find out about the area.
Four night expedition involving two days canoeing and two days hiking.