At home in the UK we run a full programme of events including camping trips for whole years groups, such as that enjoyed by year 7 students to the Derbyshire Peak District, outdoor pursuits weekends to The Towers Centre at Capel Curig in Snowdonia, Summer and Winter! Scout camps, climbing and hill walking clubs, Duke of Edinburgh Award expeditions, water sports weekends— the list goes on.

We also leave our shores for the annual, and very popular, WGS ski trip to Austria, and undertake a challenging summer expedition to remote country in Europe and beyond. In recent years we have tackled remote rainforest mountains in Malaysia, trekked through the green valleys of the Sierra Nevada range in Southern Spain, climbed trekking peaks and high passes in the Indian Himalaya, made alpine style ascents of inaccessible peaks in the Picos de Europa Range in Northern Spain, and have reached the summit of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

These expeditions are often demanding in the extreme but not beyond the abilities of our students. We prepare thoroughly for the challenges that they present and the popularity and success of these ‘big trips’ is testament to the ambition, energy and self belief that is so typical of our students. When overseas, we also throw our time and energy in to community based projects and our students have made significant contributions to the work, for example, of conservation efforts, such as that for Green Back Turtles at Kerteh in Malaysia, and preschool education for the children of Tibetan refuges at Daramasala in Northern India.