History

Trips Out

Learning Beyond the Walls of Classrooms

Here in the History Department, we firmly believe in learning well beyond the walls of our classrooms! We aim to take every pupil on an Educational Visit every year, to really bring to life the topics we study.

Here is an overview of the trips we arrange:

Year	Approximate Date	Educational Visit
7	February	A walk down to the Resource Centre in Horwich to see the latest exhibition and meet people from Horwich Heritage, our local history society.
9*	July	A residential trip to the battlefields of Belgium and Northern France, to pay tribute to the people, including former Rivington pupils, who gave their lives in the First World War. If you would like to see images of our last trip to the Battlefields, please click on the link below.
10	March	A visit to the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds (attached to St James’ Hospital) – a must for the Medicine Through Time course, so we really appreciate what doctors and surgeons fo the past were up against.
10	June	Local History G.C.S.E Site Study of Lever’s Rivington – a tour of our local history hot spot with hundreds of fascinating facts you didn’t know about this local hero.
13	September	Visit to Bolton University to see the work of a University History Department and the facilities available for us to use in their library.

Payment for School Trips

We follow the school’s policy on charging pupils for educational activities. All pupils take part in these visits, regardless of ability to pay. We ask for voluntary contributions to cover the overall cost of the visit.

How much does it cost? What if I can’t afford to pay?

We are asking parents to make a voluntary contribution of £22.50 towards the cost of the two visits.

If you cannot afford the full contribution, please pay a smaller amount, in complete confidence. Your child will still be able to go on the visits.

However, if we are unable to meet the costs of the visits through voluntary contributions, they will have to be cancelled. (Any money paid would then be refunded).