Learners at Solihull Sixth Form College get many exciting opportunities to get out of the classroom and develop their learning through more interactive means. This is often by way of fieldtrips. Perhaps the most exciting of these fieldtrips are the overseas trips, which are offered in several of our courses, not to mention as an extra-curricular option too.
Team Gambia is our most adventurous project. This is a week-long trip, but 9 months in the making! We recruit students in Year 12 and work with them from December to November fundraising for this fantastic volunteering trip. Read more about what the trip involves on our Team Gambia page.
Curriculum fieldtrips overseas include an Art excursion to a major European city (previously Paris, Rome, Berlin and Barcelona), a History trip to Berlin and Modern Foreign Language opportunities in Germany, France and Spain.
The College enjoys excellent relationships with universities and many of the trips included unique opportunities at some of the most prestigious Higher Education institutions in the country. Our students have previously benefited from visits and project work at universities in Cambridge, Oxford, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Warwick. In addition, Psychology works closely with the University of Warwick and Modern Foreign Languages work closely with Birmingham and Cambridge Universities. These links are being developed thanks to developing Specialist Academies in many curriculum areas.
Away from higher education, visits also include Law trips to local magistrates and crown courts, Performing Arts trips to productions at theatres across the country, and Visual Arts trips to museums and galleries in Birmingham and London.
This is not an exhaustive list of excursions, but hopefully it gives a taste of the opportunities available. The College works hard to keep costs as low as possible and some of the cost of these trips may be subsidised by the College.