Welcome to the Highfield School Visits Web Wiki

Educational Visits and Learning Outside the Classroom

Highfield Humanities College acknowledges the immense value of Educational Visits to young people, and fully supports and encourages all visits that are correctly planned, managed and conducted.

Pete Westhorpe and Gavin Stanfield are Highfield's Educational Visits Coordinators (EVCs) and we are always ready to help you plan and get approval for your Educational Visits.

Ofsted 2008   The first-hand experiences of learning outside the classroom can help to make subjects more vivid and interesting for pupils and enhance their understanding.     It can also contribute significantly to pupils’ personal, social and emotional development.

How to use this Web Wiki to plan your Educational Visit or Learning Outside the Classroom Activity. 

A list of all pages in this wiki is shown in the SideBar to the right of this screen.

Please use the SideBar to navigate to pages you may find useful.

"Learning outside the classroom was most successful when it was an integral

element of long-term curriculum planning and closely linked to classroom

activities."  OfSted 2008