Field Trips Guidelines
We subscribe to the Geographical Association and Field Studies Council Fieldwork code of practice which ensures our fieldwork..
...has quality
To create a purposeful, enjoyable experience through which learning becomes fun, we are committed to ensuring high quality fieldwork experiences for all through:
...has quality
To create a purposeful, enjoyable experience through which learning becomes fun, we are committed to ensuring high quality fieldwork experiences for all through:
- Careful and imaginative planning
- Thorough preparation, including exploratory pre-visits and briefing of all participants
- Use of appropriate sufficient and well maintained equipment
- Responsible conduct
- Productive follow-up
- Thorough post-fieldwork review
..is safe
To ensure a safe fieldwork experience, we recognize that safety is the responsibility of everyone, and that we must have a duty of care and act responsibly towards:
To ensure a safe fieldwork experience, we recognize that safety is the responsibility of everyone, and that we must have a duty of care and act responsibly towards:
- Ourselves
- People in our charge
- People caring for us
- Equipment and its use
- Parents and Carers
- Institutions and organisations who we deal with
..is sustainable
We recognize that we are all agents of change. To ensure that we maintain, and enhance if we can, the diversity of the environments for future generations, as well as developing a respect for the environment, we will take responsibility for our actions and their impact on:
We recognize that we are all agents of change. To ensure that we maintain, and enhance if we can, the diversity of the environments for future generations, as well as developing a respect for the environment, we will take responsibility for our actions and their impact on:
- Those we influence
- The immediate environment
- Those who live or work in the area
- Those why own land/resource in the area
- The wider world
- Those who have worked here before us
- Those who come after us
In short, we accept both the duty of care and the role of being 'in loco parentis' with all the implications for the education, safety and future well-being of those in our charge in the best quality learning environment we can obtain.
[For further information please consult publications such as 'Health and safety of Pupils on Educational Visits' in the departmental library.]
[For further information please consult publications such as 'Health and safety of Pupils on Educational Visits' in the departmental library.]
