Trips and Visits

Trips and Visits

At Philip Southcote School, we passionately believe in the value of offering all our young people, from Year 7 through to Year 14, the opportunity to extend their learning experiences outside the classroom by building in an extensive programme of off-site trips and in welcoming visitors to all our school sites.

Our trips off site link both into our curriculum offer and into our commitment to offering opportunities to develop the life skills, social skills and independence skills of all our young people.

Regular trips 

• Residential Trips varying in length
• Marwell Zoo 
• Theatre visit to the Christmas Pantomime
• Surrey Special Schools Ski Trip to Italy 
• Parliament visits with the School Council
• Preparation for Adulthood Community Visits
• Sailability at Queen’s Mary Reservoir
• Angling Fishing Project
• Duke of Edinburgh expedition
• High Ashurst Outdoor Learning Centre
• SATRO Science Trips
• Brooklands Museum
• Horse Riding
• Farm Trips

Planned visitors to school 

• Surrey Police & Fire and Rescue Services – Personal Safety talks in assemblies and PSHE lessons
• SATRO – STEM workshops
• Theatre Company productions of Macbeth and Frankenstein 
• The Halow Project
• Dramatize
• The Clubhouse Project
• Stop Gap
• RockSteady
• Generation Guys and Generation Girls
• Peer Productions theatre group

We have an extensive network of colleges and employers who work closely with us to provide Work Experience placements and advice and support for our young people in planning their move from us into college or employment. We hold a series of Careers and Recruitment Assemblies and an Open Evening where we welcome visitors from local colleges to the speak with our young people and their families about the opportunities on offer when they leave Philip Southcote – this includes the following colleges: Brooklands, Nescot, West Thames College, Richmond, Merrist Wood, Guildford, Kingston.