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What about activities?
Do You Have To Pay For School Activities?
There are sometimes opportunities for the curriculum to be enhanced by extra visits or activities, for which we may need to seek voluntary contributions towards the cost of transport and entrance fees, etc. We always indicate the amount which would enable your child to participate.
Over the years a range of activities have been enjoyed which are totally outside the normal school day, for example, theatre visits, swimming club, ski and water sports trips. Obviously such activities must be paid for to enable them to take place.
In Food Technology, parents are asked to provide ingredients for food that will be cooked at school and taken home. Ingredients for investigative work are provided by the department.
In Design and Technology, parents are invited to contribute to the cost of projects which are retained by the pupils. Music which comes under the Performing Arts Department arranges for pupils to have instrumental tuition, at competitive rates, using professional music teachers. Those pupils interested should see the Head of Performing Arts to arrange lessons. The Governing Body operates a Remissions Policy to help support the payment of tuition fees in cases of financial difficulties. Parents should contact the School Business Manager to check on their eligibility for such assistance.
What Special Arrangements Are There For Out Of School Activities?
The school arranges a variety of out of school activities. Some of these are very much an integral part of the daily/weekly routine of the school whilst others take place less frequently, generally to places farther afield, and for a longer time period.
Examples of those forming part of the regular routine of the school are as follows:
- sports matches against other schools and participation in county and area events and tournaments (e.g. cricket, tennis, netball, soccer, basketball, athletics, hockey, cross country, rounders);
- supervised visits to shops, shopping centres and supermarkets in Shrewsbury or Oswestry as part of curriculum work;
- visits to local shops to purchase items needed at school (unsupervised);
- visits to local play groups, old people's residential homes.
Transport will be either by hired coach, parents' or staff cars. Only parents who have confirmed they hold the appropriate insurance cover and whose cars are currently properly licensed and MOT tested will be able to help in this way. They must also hold a valid Criminal Records Bureau Security Check if they are to supervise groups of pupils on a school trip or visit.
Supervision will be provided by use of school teaching and other staff, parent helpers and other adults, and will be determined for each outing taking into account what the children are doing, where they are going, how they are getting there and so on. Whatever other help is used, at least one member of the school's teaching staff will be in charge.
As these routine trips are all 'local', school journey/personal accident insurance cover will not be taken out, but see the paragraph about insurance below. To meet the legal requirements, parents will be asked to sign a consent form each year to cover these regular activities.
For other trips, not listed above, detailed information and consent forms will be sent to the parents concerned at the planning stage of each trip.
The Governing Body provides insurance cover to protect your children should they suffer injury, damage or loss through negligent acts by staff or others engaged on School business.
The Governing Body does not provide any personal accident insurance (i.e. where no one is negligent or to blame) or cover for personal effects. For longer outings we shall judge each trip separately. Where we think it is wise to take out personal accident cover or any other insurance, the premium will be included in the overall costs of the trip. If we do not think special insurance is necessary we will make this clear to you so that you can make your own arrangements if you wish to.
Parents who want any more detailed information about these activities should contact the school.
Recently Pupils at the Corbet School have Enjoyed:-
Trips to the Theatre
Drama & Music Theatre visit - London
Jack and the Beanstalk - Theatre Clwyd
Sparx - Concord College
Tempest - Shrewsbury Music Hall
Of Mice & Men - Theatre Clwyd
Activities
Paired Reading
Raising money for Sargeant Fund, Samaritans ,Children in Need, Hope House, Sports Relief, County Air Ambulance, Liver Disease Foundation and McMillan Nurses.
Work with Artists in Yr.9 and Yr.11
School Production - We Will Rock You
Computer Spelling Club
Group reading
Individual programmes of help
Wind Group
Percussion Group
School Choir
School Orchestra
Readathon
Inter-House Sports Competitions
North Shropshire Swimming Gala
Netball Trip - England v South Africa
Poetry Workshop – GCSE English groups
Regular Inter School matches and tournaments in a variety of sports at both Area and County level
Involvement in local ‘Active Sports’ activities
Rugby workshops
Inter Schools Cross Country Championships
Houses of Parliament - Yr. 10
Ski Trip - France 2008
Water Sports - Spain 2008
Alton Towers - Yr. 11 Prefects
Christmas Markets - Lille - Yr. 11
Sports Clubs
Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Cricket, Football, Gymnastics, Hockey, Netball, Rounders, Rugby, Tennis, Trampolining and Martial Arts, Young Leaders Awards and Cheerleading.
Fieldwork
Study of All Saints Church, Baschurch - Yr. 7 RE Pupils
Local Village Study - Year 7 Geographers
Study of Carding Mill Valley for Yr. 10 Geographers
National Portrait Gallery – London Yr. 10
First World War Battlefields History Visit
National Space Centre – Yr.8 - Maths
Manchester URBIS - Yr. 10 Geographers
Arthog - Yr. 8
Bronze Duke of Edinburgh - Yr. 9 & 10 Pupils
Chester Zoo - Yr .7 PSHE
Clothes Show - Yr. 10 Textiles
Workshops
Art Gifted & Talented - Yr.9
English Gifted & Talented - Yr.7
Science Gifted & Talented - Yr.9
Art GCSE - Yr.11
