(November 2024)

(November 2024 - Secondary School)

Rewards/Enrichment/End of Term Trip (October 2024 - Secondary School)

(October 2024 - Primary School)

(October 2024 - Secondary School)

(October 2024 - Secondary School)

(September 2024 - Secondary School)

Travel and Tourism (September 2024 - Secondary School)

(September 2024 - Secondary School)

(September 2024 - Secondary School)

Reward trip but could definitely be used for a learning experience with the physics and mathematics involved to make the rides (September 2024)

(September 2024 - Secondary School)

(July 2024 - Secondary School)

(July 2024 - Secondary School)

(July 2024)

(July 2024 - Secondary School)

Activities week (July 2024 - Secondary School)

(July 2024 - Secondary School)

(July 2024 - Secondary School)

Great for Rewards trips! (July 2024 - Secondary School)

(July 2024 - Secondary School)

(June 2024 - Secondary School)

Reward Trip (June 2024 - Secondary School)

Reward Trip (June 2024 - Secondary School)

An excellent venue for a rewards trip that offers great social bonding for students (June 2024 - Secondary School)

Pastoral trips (June 2024 - Secondary School)

Any subject for celebration (June 2024 - Secondary School)

Business! (June 2024 - Secondary School)

Fun - not a day of learning! (June 2024 - Secondary School)

(June 2024 - Secondary School)

(June 2024 - Secondary School)

(June 2024 - Primary School)

(May 2024 - Secondary School)

Whilst there are optional talks, we did not take part in these. However, there is nothing more British than queuing, so I feel that Theme parks are a valuable experience for our international community. (May 2024 - Secondary School)

(May 2024 - Secondary School)

Easier to book directly through the website than through the school system. (April 2024 - Secondary School)

(April 2024 - Secondary School)

(March 2024)

(February 2024 - Secondary School)

(February 2024 - Secondary School)

(January 2024 - Secondary School)

(January 2024 - Secondary School)

(December 2023 - Secondary School)

(December 2023 - Secondary School)

Cross Curricular trips (December 2023 - Secondary School)

(November 2023 - Secondary School)

(November 2023 - Secondary School)

(November 2023 - Secondary School)

(November 2023 - Primary School & Secondary School)

Rewards Trip (November 2023 - Secondary School)

(November 2023)

(October 2023 - Secondary School)

(October 2023 - Primary School)

(October 2023 - Secondary School)

This venue offers the opportunity for students to take a break from the curriculum and build on group cohesion and peer support. (October 2023 - Secondary School)

(October 2023 - Secondary School)

(October 2023 - Secondary School)

(October 2023)

(October 2023 - Secondary School)

Science talk was ok but we can do this better ourselves and may put something together at school pre-visit. (September 2023 - Secondary School)

Potentially a wealth of curricuklum links, especially good for Careers (September 2023)

(September 2023 - Secondary School)

Reward Trip (September 2023 - Secondary School)

(September 2023 - Secondary School)

(September 2023)

(September 2023 - Secondary School)

(August 2023 - Secondary School)

(July 2023 - Secondary School)

(July 2023 - Secondary School)

(July 2023)

(July 2023 - Secondary School)

(July 2023 - Secondary School)

(July 2023 - Secondary School)

(July 2023 - Secondary School)

Rewards. Other comments: Student pay a lot of money to go on 4 rides. 110-120 minutes to queue and two of the main rides were closed for either the whole day or a large chunk. Disappointing. Also needs more healthy food options (July 2023 - Secondary School)

(July 2023 - Secondary School)

(July 2023 - Secondary School)

This was a treat, just a fun trip (July 2023 - Secondary School)

(July 2023 - Secondary School)

Very long queues - a bit frustrating for some. (July 2023 - Secondary School)

(July 2023 - Secondary School)

(July 2023 - Primary School)

(July 2023 - Secondary School)

The trip would suit any of the STEAM subjects. (June 2023 - Secondary School)

Reward (June 2023 - Secondary School)

Really busy and traffic led to a diversion on the way so pupils had limited time there. Not great for reimbursing money where pupils were unable to attend after we made an early payment. (June 2023 - Secondary School)

End of year, exams, celebration moment (June 2023 - Primary School)

(June 2023 - Secondary School)

(June 2023 - Secondary School)

(June 2023 - Secondary School)

(June 2023 - Secondary School)

(May 2023 - Secondary School)

(May 2023 - Secondary School)

We visited for a talk about business and marketing which supports the learngi of the Travel and Tourism students (May 2023 - Secondary School)

(May 2023 - Secondary School)

(May 2023 - Secondary School)

(May 2023 - Primary School)

(May 2023 - Primary School)

There is potential for an educational experience, either through direct learning or as a project. (May 2023 - Secondary School)

(May 2023 - Secondary School)

(May 2023 - Secondary School)

Everyone had great fun, but beware of the queues, some were up to 90mins. So advise to go to rides you most want to do first. You can apply for ride access pass for those who find queuing difficult due to a physical disability or other need. You can do this on the day, but you need to provide a letter of proof. However the queues for this were very long. You can apply before you go, I would advise doing this if needed. (April 2023 - Secondary School)

(March 2023)

(February 2023)

(February 2023 - Secondary School)

Thorpe Park have stopped offering the Maths workshop for KS5 but it would be good for KS4. (January 2023 - Secondary School)

(January 2023)

(January 2023)

(January 2023 - Secondary School)

(January 2023 - Secondary School)

(December 2022)

(December 2022 - Secondary School)

(November 2022 - Secondary School)

(November 2022 - Secondary School)

(November 2022 - Secondary School)

(October 2022 - Primary School)

Thorpe Park is a well organised venue for school trips. They offer educational workshops which we have used in the past, but have found them to be more suited to younger students (KS3) rather than A Level students as we have on our trip. (October 2022 - Secondary School)

(October 2022 - Secondary School)

Activity Day (October 2022 - Secondary School)

(October 2022 - Secondary School)

Other - cocurricular trips. (October 2022 - Secondary School)

(October 2022 - Secondary School)

(October 2022 - Primary School)

(October 2022 - Primary School)

(October 2022 - Secondary School)

(October 2022 - Secondary School)

(October 2022 - Secondary School)

(September 2022 - Secondary School)

(September 2022)

(September 2022 - Secondary School)

(September 2022 - Secondary School)

enrichment (September 2022 - Secondary School)

(September 2022 - Secondary School)

(August 2022 - Secondary School)

(August 2022 - Secondary School)

(August 2022 - Secondary School)

(July 2022 - Secondary School)

(July 2022 - Secondary School)

(July 2022 - Secondary School)

(July 2022 - Secondary School)

(July 2022)

We did not use the workshops. Park was extremely busy on arrival - perhaps they should stagger the entry and start a little earlier for schools at 9am rather than 10, allowing easier access to some rides. Parking and support from coach to entrance good, just busy and 20 min plus to wait to gain entry. Communication with park pre-visit was sporadic although Alice was great in school trips dept - told this was due to backlog of trips due to pandemic. (July 2022)

(July 2022 - Secondary School)

(July 2022 - Secondary School)

(July 2022 - Secondary School)

(July 2022)

You can link the trip to physics and Thorpe Park run an educational section which you can book for an extra £60 for the group. It was great as a reward trip as well. (July 2022 - Secondary School)

It's a great, fun day out. Should only be used for genuinely special occasions though. (July 2022 - Secondary School)

Rewards trip (July 2022 - Secondary School)

(July 2022 - Secondary School)

(July 2022 - Secondary School)

(July 2022 - Secondary School)

(June 2022 - Secondary School)

All (June 2022 - Primary School)

Fabulous day. (June 2022)

(June 2022 - Secondary School)

Pastoral (June 2022 - Secondary School)

Travel and Tourism (May 2022 - Secondary School)

(May 2022 - Primary School)

Reward activity (May 2022 - Secondary School)

(May 2022 - Secondary School)

(May 2022)

(May 2022 - Secondary School)

Unfortunately, due to the weather the day of the visit, some rides were restricted (April 2022 - Secondary School)

(March 2022 - Secondary School)

(February 2022 - Secondary School)

(January 2022 - Secondary School)

(January 2022 - Secondary School)

Travel was fine and not too much traffic, the venue was great, students were safe and the meeting point was easy to find. (December 2021 - Secondary School)

Way too busy around freight nights. Most students only got on 3 big rides in the whole day around 2 1/2's spent waiting for each. (November 2021 - Secondary School)

(November 2021 - Secondary School)

(November 2021 - Secondary School)

(November 2021 - Secondary School)

A very enjoyable experience for the pupils. Queue times were very low as you may expect. (November 2021 - Secondary School)

Students enjoyed the whole day - behaved on the minibus there and back, followed instructions at the venue. success (October 2021 - Secondary School)

The pupils had a great day (October 2021 - Secondary School)

(October 2021 - Secondary School)

The children had an excellent time (October 2021 - Secondary School)

well planned and executed. (October 2021 - Secondary School)

Excellent Day (October 2021 - Secondary School)

(September 2021 - Secondary School)

The queues for rides were so long that students could only go on a maximum of two of the big rides and each took around 90 minutes to 120 minutes to go on. 5 children couldn't attend last minute due to COVID bubbles closing, and Thorp Park wouldn't do anything to support the school with refunds or reissuing new tickets. (September 2021 - Secondary School)

(September 2021 - Secondary School)

The boys had a really good time and were very grateful. (September 2021 - Secondary School)

Excellent trip for students from both an enjoyment point of view and also from the educational perspective for travel and tourism (August 2021 - Secondary School)

(August 2021 - Secondary School)

even though the trip was long, the young people were so excited this didn't bother them, the park was great and the young people enjoyed the outing (August 2021 - Secondary School)

Very good (August 2021 - Secondary School)

Great day which students really enjoyed. (July 2021 - Secondary School)

Helpful theme park staff, well organised and got us all through safely and sensibly on the day. (July 2021 - Secondary School)

It was very busy . It was surprising as it is still school term and with covid restrictions, it felt there were too many people. (July 2021 - Secondary School)

Great location - not too big so students couldn't wander too far. Great facilities for staff on duty - area sectioned off for teachers accompanying trip. (July 2021 - Secondary School)

The students all enjoyed themselves very much (June 2021 - Secondary School)

Only issue passed to other trip leaders was being careful about meeting points as the dome is the logical point to meet but can become very congested. Limited under cover meeting points but it is possible to space groups out. (June 2021 - Secondary School)

(June 2021 - Secondary School)

I would recommend that more staff came on the trip to increase the ration. The reason being that we were eligible for Fast Track as we are a SEMH Provision. This meant that the student were not able to go off on their own. (June 2021 - Secondary School)

(June 2021 - Secondary School)

(June 2021 - Secondary School)

Although it seems most of the students had an enjoyable day, there were some things that proved unhelpful which were different to our last visit (possibly because of Covid). There was a very long queue to even get through security and the turnstiles and very little done to accommodate school groups (no separate entrance). By the time the students got through the turnstiles after 50 minutes of queuing, they were impatient to get going and reluctant to wait to do the proper register once inside - however I will let future visit leaders going on this trip from our school that group leaders should hold onto students tickets until after the security. One member of staff asked students to wear masks whilst queueing as we were so close together, but it was impossible to social distance (although I appreciate there are limitations to what staff can do). The dome area had changed since my last visit and was the meeting point, but no seating area was available, which made it difficult for staff. I will let future group leaders know that there is a picnic bench area not far away, which will be a better place to have staff seated throughout the visit. Our trip was marred by some students arriving very late at the end of the day. Initially we had been told the park was open until 5, and so the meeting time was 4:45, and we expected that a few students might straggle back a few minutes late, however, Thorpe Park then advertised staying open until 6, but it was too late for us to amend details and confirm permission with all parents, so the students felt like they were missing out on time - had we known, we would have asked them to meet us at 5:45. (June 2021 - Secondary School)

Well organised inside the venue. (June 2021 - Secondary School)

(May 2021 - Secondary School)

(November 2020 - Secondary School)

(January 2020 - Secondary School)

They had to change our itinerary last minute, which meant the students had more free time than originally planned. (January 2020 - Secondary School)

The trip was a great success and achieved all of the objectives that were set. The day was informative and gave students the opportunity to form new friendships and be trusted to explore the park themselves. The idea of Consequence was explored and all students thoroughly enjoyed the day. (November 2019 - Secondary School)

Exceptionally busy so students didn't get the opportunity to go on many rides (November 2019 - Secondary School)

(November 2019 - Secondary School)

Excellent (November 2019 - Secondary School)

Fab trips, students had fun. Exceptional behavior (November 2019 - Secondary School)

Queues as always can be frustratingly long but the rides are great for teenagers (November 2019 - Secondary School)

queue upon arrival a little long but otherwise an excellent day (October 2019 - Secondary School)

A superb Marketing / Careers presentation from the team at Thorpe Park. Learners were engaged and actively taking part. (October 2019 - Secondary School)

(October 2019 - Secondary School)

(October 2019 - Secondary School)

(September 2019 - Secondary School)

Thorpe Park, very helpful staff and easy to organise rewards day activity. (September 2019 - Secondary School)

(September 2019 - Secondary School)

Despite pre-ordering and paying for our tickets, queues to collect these tickets took almost 90 minutes. As a youth group we had been originally advised to collect from the schools entrance but on arrival were turned away to the main queues for tickets. Once inside we had to collect fast passes, which also took almost an hour to collect and assign to young people. As such, young people only had approximately 3 hours to access rides, with some waiting times as long as an hour. (September 2019 - Secondary School)

(September 2019 - Secondary School)

(September 2019 - Secondary School)

(September 2019 - Secondary School)

(August 2019 - Secondary School)

Welcome/arrival could be managed better. Arrival form should be given to lead teacher in advance to allow completion prior to arrival at venue - no time to complete in detail so therefore not useful. Adult and student tickets should be separated. Ticket collection "tent" should be much closer to coach park - much time wasted walking all the way to the entrance and back again to distribute tickets to staff and students. (August 2019 - Secondary School)

Great time had by all students (July 2019 - Secondary School)

(July 2019 - Secondary School)

(July 2019 - Secondary School)

Wheelchair - need to book beforehand as there were none available on the day. Queue exemption cards - individuals need medical evidence (i.e. doctors note, x-ray, report etc) in order to get a queue pass. Timings - it takes at least 45 minutes to get from the coach through the turnstiles, this needs to be considered when booking workshops. (July 2019 - Secondary School)

(July 2019 - Secondary School)

Pupils really enjoyed their day (July 2019 - Secondary School)

(July 2019 - Secondary School)

very good workshops and beneficial academically as well as helped many students experience things outside their normal comfort zones (July 2019 - Secondary School)

(June 2019 - Secondary School)

Well organised, payment needed to be made very early though which for a non compulsory trip makes it a little awkwards. (June 2019 - Secondary School)

(June 2019 - Secondary School)

(June 2019 - Secondary School)

(June 2019 - Secondary School)

Great trip this time after having issues on the same trip back in July. Could not thanks Jamie and his team enough for making sure everything ran smoothly. (June 2019 - Secondary School)

(June 2019 - Secondary School)

Students attended as a reward trip to Thorpe park. The students had a great day, although it was quite busy so some queued for a lot of the day. (May 2019 - Secondary School)

Great day, kids had an amazing day. (May 2019 - Primary School & Secondary School)

(May 2019 - Secondary School)

Excellent time of the year to go with ride waiting times 5 minutes. (April 2019 - Secondary School)

Arrived late (20 minutes) after a shocking journey and students weren't allowed into the STEM fair. (April 2019 - Secondary School)

(January 2019 - Secondary School)

(January 2019 - Secondary School)

(January 2019 - Secondary School)

(November 2018 - Secondary School)

(November 2018 - Secondary School)

(November 2018 - Secondary School)

(October 2018 - Secondary School)

(October 2018 - Secondary School)

(October 2018 - Secondary School)

Great resort (October 2018 - Secondary School)

Really fun activity, although the queue to collect tickets that were pre-booked was horrendous. Make sure anyone wanting disabled access has the right documentation so are not disappointed. (September 2018 - Secondary School)

Very busy time of year to go. (September 2018 - Secondary School)

Long queues. Consider fast track tickets. (July 2018 - Secondary School)

Great venue, helpful staff. Quite long wait times for the rides, which can be frustrating, but lots of fun nonetheless. (July 2018 - Secondary School)

(July 2018 - Secondary School)

The Student really enjoyed the visit, however the queues were long and students had to wait. (July 2018 - Secondary School)

(July 2018 - Secondary School)

Great place but was made difficult by staff not having our tickets ready at the gate and delaying us for over an hour. (July 2018 - Secondary School)

Very helpful with fast-track arm bands for SEN school (June 2018 - Secondary School)

(June 2018 - Secondary School)

(May 2018 - Secondary School)

(April 2018 - Secondary School)

(February 2018 - Secondary School)