Latest Reviews
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| Provider | Score | Comments | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thorpe Park (Day Visits) | 16 November 2021 | ||
| Ogden Water Country Side Services | 16 November 2021 | ||
| Kingswood West Runton | 16 November 2021 | ||
| Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery | 16 November 2021 | ||
| Robinwood Activity Centre - Dobroyd Castle | 16 November 2021 | ||
| Leeds Grand Theatre | 16 November 2021 | ||
| Great North Museum: Hancock | 16 November 2021 | ||
| Tamworth Snow Dome | 16 November 2021 | ||
| Nell Bank Charitable Trust | The Nell Bank Staff were brilliant, we had a great day. | 16 November 2021 | |
| The Conservation Volunteers at Skelton Grange Environment Centre | 16 November 2021 | ||
| Black Country Living Museum | A really good visit, made even better by the guides that showed us around the site. A lot of investment is currently taking place at the museum, which will guarantee our return in the future. | 15 November 2021 | |
| Ancient House Museum of Thetford Life | The day was very well organised, and informative. The children enjoyed the experience of being active within the activities. Thank you to all. | 15 November 2021 | |
| Peat Rigg Outdoor Training Centre | 15 November 2021 | ||
| Ingleton Falls | 15 November 2021 | ||
| Stockwood Discovery Centre | This was a very successful trip which enriched the learning of the children. Due to Covid restrictions the timings were not ideal. Next time a post lunch timeslot would suit better. | 15 November 2021 | |
| Ingleton Falls | 15 November 2021 | ||
| Fireground | 15 November 2021 | ||
| ZSL Whipsnade Zoo | 15 November 2021 | ||
| Haven Banks Outdoor Education Centre | 15 November 2021 | ||
| Haven Banks Outdoor Education Centre | 15 November 2021 | ||
| Cardiff Castle | 15 November 2021 | ||
| Haven Banks Outdoor Education Centre | 15 November 2021 | ||
| Cadbury World | Brilliant. Great marketing talk arranged and fantastic experiences for all. | 15 November 2021 | |
| Field Studies Council - Juniper Hall | Well organised, appropriate level of teaching and methods, good facilities. | 15 November 2021 | |
| Robinwood Activity centre - Barhaugh Hall | A thoroughly enjoyable and beneficial visit. Our children developed their confidence, resilience and team building skills through a wide range of challenging outdoor activities. | 15 November 2021 | |
| Field Studies Council - Slapton Ley | 15 November 2021 | ||
| Cuffley Active Learning Centre | 15 November 2021 | ||
| Cuffley Active Learning Centre | 15 November 2021 | ||
| Girlguiding UK Blackland Farm | 15 November 2021 | ||
| Hindleap Warren Outdoor Education Centre | 15 November 2021 | ||
| Hilltop Outdoor Centre | The residential was a great success. The children embraced all the activities planned and enjoyed meeting the children form the other schools. This will undoubtedly prepare them for High School and the transition to the next phase. Hilltop lodgings and food were just perfect. Everyone was comfortable and enjoyed the experience. | 15 November 2021 | |
| Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts | extremely well structured and informative day | 15 November 2021 | |
| Winchester Science Centre and Planetarium | The planetarium was excellent and the girls really enjoyed it. This is an experience that I could not have done in school. | 15 November 2021 | |
| Tower of London - Historic Royal Palaces | Everything went very smoothly, from picking up the wristbands at the Welcome Centre to having time in the lunch room. Toby, our guide for Fire! Fire! was excellent and the children were very well behaved with him because they were engaged. | 15 November 2021 | |
| Housesteads Roman Fort | Very nice staff and a tidy, clean fort. | 15 November 2021 | |
| Mount Cook Adventure Centre | Excellent facilities - comfortable bed, en-suite rooms, all meals provided, tea and coffee for staff all day. As the students were kept busy all day, by the evening they were ready for bed and woke up fresh for the full day of activities. Knowledgeable instructors who made the activities fun and educational. Being centre based everything, was readily available. I will suggest for next time that we do a night walk. | 15 November 2021 | |
| Paultons Park Education Team | 15 November 2021 | ||
| Bunker 51 | The staff were professional, friendly and helpful. The venue environment is good; however, the floor of the arena on the day was a bit slippery mainly because it was the same arena for paintball games. This was probably because that the paint was not cleaned well after the previous paintball games. | 14 November 2021 | |
| Bunker 51 | The staff were professional and friendly. The venue environment is good; however, the floor of the arena on the day was a bit slippery mainly because it was the same arena for paintball games. This was probably because that the paint was not cleaned well after the previous paintball games. | 14 November 2021 | |
| Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses | Lovely trip. Children had a great time and learnt alot. | 14 November 2021 | |
| PGL Liddington | The children had a great time however our attending staff had a number of concerns. The evening activities were not well thought out. On our first evening we had an outside activity requiring teams of children to locate clues. This was in the dark. No torches provided. One of our members of staff trod on a rusty nail resulting in a trip to A and E for a tetanus booster. One child was wrongly given non-halal food; when this was questioned the non-halal sausage was removed from his plate and the contaminated plate returned to the child. On arrival at the canteen for a meal, a child from another group had vomited. The mess was not cleaned away for the entirety of the meal time. A table was placed over it to prevent people walking through it. | 14 November 2021 | |
| Warwick Castle | 14 November 2021 | ||
| Avon Tyrrell Outdoor Activity Centre | The activities were excellent, accommodation was dated (we stayed in the actual house). The food was very good and accommodated all the students. | 14 November 2021 | |
| Field Studies Council - Rhyd-y-creuau | Excellent provision of all services, venue facilities and curriculum delivery. Would recommend. To note. Communication was slower and not as effective as previously, but this was due to new staff and IT systems in place which no doubt will be resolved quickly. | 14 November 2021 | |
| Banham Zoo | Educational talk was very useful - specific to our requirements. Pupils responded positively. | 14 November 2021 | |
| Tudor World | 14 November 2021 | ||
| Manor Adventure Norfolk Lakes | Fantastic event and a great safe place to be. | 14 November 2021 | |
| The Horstead Centre | A small (Covid friendly - we were the only school on site) venue with top quality instructors and a range of adventurous activities. | 13 November 2021 | |
| High Adventure Outdoor Education Centre Limited | Good level of service and coaching provided for students. Accommodation, food and equipment was well maintained and adequate. | 13 November 2021 | |
| The Training Partnership | Good, engaging speakers. Venue was a bit chilly and despite a less than half-full auditorium, no-one from our school was picked as a volunteer despite one boy from another school being picked for more than one activity! Share this out more fairly in the future, please! The exam session was disappointingly short and was more vague and generic than I would have expected - more on how to answer stuff (like command words, 6 markers) in the future, please! Consider the pricing of tickets too now there is an online option - paying double to sit in a venue and not be any more involved than if we were watching on a screen was disappointing...! | 12 November 2021 | |
| Go Ape Temple Newsam Continuous Belay Course | 12 November 2021 | ||
| Ackers Adventure | Excellent trip. Well organised. Adult led. No problems. | 12 November 2021 | |
| PGL Windmill Hill | Excellent week as always. All experiences very positive and staff were excellent. | 12 November 2021 | |
| Alton Towers Resort (day visits) | 12 November 2021 | ||
| The Donkey Sanctuary | Brilliant charity, very informative. Helpful volunteers. | 12 November 2021 | |
| Imperial War Museum Duxford | 12 November 2021 | ||
| ZSL London Zoo | The staff were very helpful and informative. The range of animals was perfect for our visit. It felt Covid safe. | 12 November 2021 | |
| Black Country Museum | 12 November 2021 | ||
| Discovery Museum - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums | This was a fantastic workshop which engaged the children. They were absolutely enthralled. A wonderful opportunity to explore Victorian artefacts first hand, and retell the events of The Great Fire with a puppet show. | 12 November 2021 | |
| Holland Park Ecology Centre | 12 November 2021 | ||
| Thinktank Birmingham science museum | We had a fantastic trip - the museum is very interactive and this really engaged the children. It was also a bonus that on Tuesday's it is school trips only - so there were no members of the public in the building. This gave us an extra level of safety. The science garden was outstanding and the planetarium show was very informative. The guide was slightly less experienced at reading the room re: behaviour, but as school staff we could assist with this. The walk from the coach drop to the museum entrance was acceptable, there were no roads to cross making the walk easier with a full class whilst on public footpaths. The toilet and lunch facilities were clean and well maintained. Staff were kind, enthusiastic and very helpful throughout. | 12 November 2021 | |
| THE DEEP | The children really enjoyed their day and met the LO criteria. | 12 November 2021 | |
| Chiltern Open Air Museum | 12 November 2021 | ||
| SEA LIFE London | The students enjoyed the trip. They saw and learnt about different types of sea life creatures. | 12 November 2021 | |
| Butser Ancient Farm | 11 November 2021 | ||
| Ford Green Hall | ''Samuel Pepys' was excellent and very informative. The kids loved him. | 11 November 2021 | |
| Barleylands Farm | 11 November 2021 | ||
| The Deep | 11 November 2021 | ||
| Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery | The trip has not gone ahead as parking was not available at the venue due to construction. It would have been unsafe to take the pupils without close access to the minibus. | 11 November 2021 | |
| Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery | The trip has not gone ahead as parking was not available at the venue due to construction. It would have been unsafe to take the pupils without close access to the minibus. | 11 November 2021 | |
| PGL Osmington Bay | We didn't think it was very safe that they were completing the orienteering activity across the car park. | 11 November 2021 | |
| Museum of London | 11 November 2021 | ||
| Cambridge University D of E Society | 11 November 2021 | ||
| Essex Outdoors Mersea | vb rg r t 5t t | 11 November 2021 | |
| Butser Ancient Farm | fabulous facilities and brilliant for the children to see living archaeology in action | 11 November 2021 | |
| Rock and Rapid Adventures | Excellent! We have used R and R since the start. Excellent instructors. | 11 November 2021 | |
| Andrew Simpson Centre Portland | Excellent. We have used them since they started. Always excellent instructors and equipment. Great support for staff. | 11 November 2021 | |
| Crucial Crew | 11 November 2021 | ||
| Cambridge University Botanic Garden | The gardens are a fantastic experience for the students as there is plenty o space for us to work and the greenhouses were open to draw tropical plants which we really appreciated, especially having missed the trip last year due to lockdown. Thank you. | 11 November 2021 | |
| Henry Moore Foundation | The tour was excellent and the students gained so much from being able to see the work first hand. | 11 November 2021 | |
| Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery | 11 November 2021 | ||
| SEA LIFE Brighton | The children enjoyed their trip however, we encountered numerous problems when trying to book the trip. | 11 November 2021 | |
| PGL Osmington Bay | 11 November 2021 | ||
| Drusillas Park | 11 November 2021 | ||
| Edgmond Hall Centre for Outdoor Learning | The staff were great with the children and made sure every question was answered. Learning opportunities were available all day every day. | 11 November 2021 | |
| JCA Condover Hall | A positive trip. Children were well looked after, the facilities were very good and there was little down time. Children enjoyed the range of activities completed. | 11 November 2021 | |
| Doe Park Activity Centre | Great team building activities. Children grew in confidence and cemented relationships during these activities. | 11 November 2021 | |
| The National Archives | The session laid on by the education team at the National Archives was fantastic for our course of study. The resources and support given to the students was brilliant! | 10 November 2021 | |
| Thinktank Birmingham science museum | Great varied and stimulating facilities for the children to get involved in. The children enjoyed recognising learning they had done in Science, as well as finding out new facts for upcoming Science units within each exhibit. The Luminous Light Show was fun and engaging, and the children enjoyed taking part. | 10 November 2021 | |
| The Training Partnership | Good, engaging speakers. Venue was a bit chilly and despite a less than half-full auditorium, no-one from our school was picked as a volunteer despite one boy from another school being picked for more than one activity! Share this out more fairly in the future, please! The exam session was disappointingly short and was more vague and generic than I would have expected - more on how to answer stuff (like command words, 6 markers) in the future, please! Consider the pricing of tickets too now there is an online option - paying double to sit in a venue and not be any more involved than if we were watching on a screen was disappointing...! | 10 November 2021 | |
| Kingswood Grosvenor Hall | I believe that due to the pandemic, experienced staff have left and Kingswood are now in a position where they are recruiting and training. Staff could have been more engaging with the children. | 10 November 2021 | |
| RCT Windsor Castle | Absolutely fabulous | 10 November 2021 | |
| Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse | Great day, some toys getting a bit old. I would have given 5 stars but I felt it finished a bit early! | 10 November 2021 | |
| Museum of London | 10 November 2021 | ||
| Winchester Science Centre and Planetarium | Excellent, well resourced and well organised. | 10 November 2021 | |
| Zip World Slate Caverns | Fantastic experience for the group in a well run and safe environment. | 10 November 2021 | |
| PGL Caythorpe Court | The accommodation and facilities were all fit for purpose and clean. The staff were well trained and supportive of the children who were a bit nervous to try new things. | 10 November 2021 | |
| Etihad Stadium | Excellent students enjoyed the evening | 10 November 2021 | |
| Imperial War Museum London | The IWM never fails to provide a very informed and interesting visit. We took part in an interactive activity for the first time with the students taking part in a webcam / podcast task which we have enjoyed reviewing back at school. All very much linked to being Future Ready. | 10 November 2021 | |
| Preston Space Centre | Space is a great venue, with great accessibility for all in the forms of hoists, hygiene suites and lifts. There is plenty for all to enjoy both in terms of it's static equipment and little extras - sensory / musical / massage etc. that the young people can use. The staff are always friendly and will change the music to suit the young people and the lighting etc. There's also a few little buttons that the young people themselves can use to change the colours and lights in sections of the room, great interactive play for them. | 10 November 2021 |