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2025 KS4

SCIENCE
TRIP

The KS4 Science Trip

Opens Up the Real World

very two years, our KS4 students take Each cycle brings its own discoveries, but
part in a science trip that gives learning the aim remains the same: to give students
E a different kind of depth. Instead of room to explore, to think widely, and to
hearing about ideas in a classroom, they recognise that science is not distant or
see where those ideas actually live: in labs, abstract. It is present in the food we grow,
forests, farms, hospitals, and the systems the water we use, the landscape around
that keep communities running. It is a chance us, and the choices societies make. This
to slow down, observe, ask questions, and trip gives them a chance to see that for
understand how science shapes ordinary life. themselves– show our students growing
in voice, character and confidence.
The trip exists for a simple reason. Young
people learn differently when they stand in
the places where research happens, when
they watch a process unfold, or when they
speak to people who work with science
daily. It helps them connect facts to real
environments, and it often reveals skills
and interests they did not realise they had.

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