St Bede's Abroad

A key component of our educational philosophy is preparation for life in the world at large. From the beginning, our students are involved in activities which extend their experience beyond the School campus. In addition to our programme of local community activities, they visit universities, museums, art galleries, the Houses of Parliament, the Old Bailey and local businesses. Clubs and sporting activities can take them further afield, to Europe, America and Asia.

An ambitious programme of educational visits ensures that some aspects of all subjects are taught on location as well as in the classroom. The programme is comprehensive and varies from year to year. Recent activities have included a geography field trip to the Isle of Arran, an art trip to Mexico and visits to study European First World War battlefields.

Extra-curricular activities also frequently involve membership of clubs outside school, taking students off campus. We have a regular programme of visits to institutions such as the BBC and Sussex University, theatre trips to London, visits to a local farm and even scuba diving in the Red Sea.

Students have the opportunity to go on many different trips during the School year. Some might just be day trips to London to visit galleries and museums or to local towns to study flood plains and development.

Other trips might be as far afield as Canada or South America. Most are related to subjects studied, but there is always the ski trip in the Easter Holidays for relaxation. Here is just a taste of some of the countries recently experienced by St Bede's students.

Heat and dust and a mule is a must

Morocco is a country that has its roots in Africa but its leaves in Europe! How very true we found this to be when St Bede's Geography department visited this fascinating country in February.

Our journey started in the city of Marrakech. The city was hot, dusty, loud and rather frightening at times. On leaving the city the landscape quickly became very rural - the car replaced by the Mercedes of the mountains - the mule. The Atlas Mountains loomed ahead.

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Mountain high

Having visited Lake Louise back in 2003, and experienced the fabulous dry powder snow of the Canadian Rockies, we decided to head back to Canada in 2007, this time to the quieter picturesque resort of Jasper, situated right in the middle of the National Park.

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Outdoor Pursuits

Transporting our new First Year students en mass to Derbyshire, half-way through their first term, is now established as a great St Bede's tradition.

They set off for days of pot-holing, abseiling, caving, horse-riding and more, in trepidation, having heard gruesome tales from the Lower Fifth.

They return, having had a wonderful time along with the opportunity of really getting to know one another.

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Out of Africa

There are very few words that could fully describe the experience enjoyed by the twenty-one students and staff who spent four weeks in Uganda last summer, but ‘awe-inspiring' and ‘moving' might be a start.

The main aim of the trip was to spend some time in the small rural village of Kabubbu to see the work of the local Hailsham charity Quicken Trust which St Bede's has been helping to support for the past two years.

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