Educational trips at Acorn are considered as a powerful and positive teaching tool that support learning acquisition and consolidation as well as social, personal, and emotional development of our students.

Learning outside the classroom at Acorn is an integral part of our dual curriculum, closely linked to our long-term planning and classroom activities, ensuring the coherent and progressive development of knowledge, skills and understanding.

Evidence shows that pupils’ understanding and retaining of the knowledge improve if they are given the opportunity to spend quality time learning far from their class walls and paper works.

At Acorn we are strongly convinced of the need for a broad and motivating curriculum offer and we are committed and confident about improving our learners’ achievements, aspirations and personal development and we consider learning outside the classroom as key to our final objectives.

Teachers value different opportunities for learning alongside the class lesson work and children are offered the possibility to explore the world outside their classrooms as integral part of our constructivist approach.

We believe that students can better achieve in Science, Art, History and Geography when learning is brought to life, making it more interesting and relevant to them.

Often we bring our Science and Art lessons outdoor as outdoor learning spaces are for these subjects often a comfortable and inspiring places to work.

In our 50.000 mq. park or in the immediate neighborhoods teachers create occasions for children to actively get involved with investigative science or art challenges using the natural resources around them.

All groups of pupils/students from EYFS department to KS3 are regularly offered along the school year exciting and relevant daily trips closely linked to the learning occurring in class. Teachers accurately and carefully plan and present them to families at the start of every new school year.