Residentials

The Alternative 3Rs

Residentials to promote responsibility, real-life skills and resilience!

All children in Key Stage Two are offered the opportunity to experience dedicated quality learning time away from the classroom. From Year 3 onwards, children are invited to enjoy nature, get outdoors and work as a team to enjoy the camp experience.

The level of challenge progresses as children progress through the school. In Year 3, there is a residential at Fauxquets Valley Camp Site in Castel. Children are away from their homes for a two day, one night camp featuring a variety of activities to instill an appreciation of nature, to learn team building skills and to promote physical activity, including swimming in the pool on site. The children are still on the island, but many experience being away from the families in a safe, secure environment.

The following year, our Year 4s visit the tidal island of Lihou. This nature reserve and historical site is accessed by a stone causeway that is covered by the tide twice a day. Children stay in the house on the island for one night and experience time away from home, but they are still within Guernsey’s territory. They engage in a variety of adventurous activities in this haven for wildlife, including plunging into the natural low-tide rock pool known as the Venus Pool, archery and problem-solving challenges.

Year 5 travel off-island to the fellow Channel Island of Jersey. In their three day, two night stay at a hostel, they experience a multitude of educational experiences. These range from having first-hand experience of life in World War 2 to improving coordination and agility skills at a trampoline park; from an enhanced appreciation of conservation to improving their water confidence in a themed water park.

In the final year of primary school, Year 6 children have a fully-funded and inclusive camp in the North of Guernsey. Children fund-raise for this four day, three night residential, so that everyone can be involved in this transformative experience. During the stay, children build on independent, practical and problem solving skills developed in previous years. They swim in open water, trek around the island of Herm, take on adventurous activity challenges such as climbing and high ropes, and sample their own healthy and nutritious cooking whilst camping away from home for a significant period of time.

By placing students in new, stimulating environments away from home, these trips play a huge role in the development of essential independence skills.They are remembered fondly by our pupils.

Each of these residentials has its own dedicated page. Click on the blue links below.