School Excursions

Banbury Museum

On 10th November 2009 KS1 and Year 3 visited Banbury Museum.

A Victorian Girl
A Victorian Girl
Victorian Toys
Victorian Toys



While at the museum children had the opportunity to dress up in Victorian clothes and play in a Victorian home corner. There was also a collection of traditional Victorian toys which the children enjoyed investigating.

Victorian Washday
Victorian Washday
Victorian Clothes
Victorian Clothes
Using a Flat Iron
Using a Flat Iron




Oxford University Museum of Natural History

http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/

KS2 visited the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on January 29th 2009. With the Museum Education Officer, Chris Jarvis, the children learnt how fossils can give us valuable information about how dinosaurs lived. The children also thought about what materials would be suitable to make a trap to catch a dinosaur, and drew their design.



Trip to Watermill Theatre

http://www.watermill.org.uk/

On the 2nd December 2008 all the school went to the Watermill Theatre to see Duffy and Matilda’s Stupendous Space Adventure.

Watermill KS1 Display
Watermill KS1 Display
Watermill Poster
Watermill Poster



University of Oxford Botanic Garden

http://www.botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk/Garden/gardenintro.html

On 25th November 2008 we all went to the Botanic Gardens at the University of Oxford, the oldest botanic garden in Great Britain which has been developed over 380 years.

In the Rainforest
In the Rainforest
BotanicWiinter
Garden in Winter



While at the Gardens, Years 4, 5 and 6 looked at how can we look after the planet to make sure resources are available for future generations. Pupils became “Green Inspectors” and conducted their own fun audit to see how green the Garden is. This helped the children find out about sustainability and see it in action as well as leaving with ideas to take back to school and home.

Cake Ingredients
Cake Ingredients
Christmas Cake ingredient?
Cake ingredient?



Years R, 1, 2 and 3 looked to see if they could find all the ingredients necessary to make a Christmas cake growing in the Botanic Garden. The children found out how many ingredients needed for a Christmas cake come from plants and used all their senses as they hunted for exotic fruits and spices.



Tudor Ships at The Museum of the History of Science

http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/

Museum of the History of Science

On 11th November 2008 Key Stage 2 went to The Museum of the History of Science, a unique collection of historic scientific instruments in the world's oldest surviving purpose-built museum building, the Old Ashmolean on Broad Street, Oxford.

We went to discover what life was like at sea as a Tudor explorer on a ship bound for the Spice Islands. We had to smell and identify spices and were able to handle objects to help us understand how Tudor explorers navigated the perilous seas.