Trips and Expeditions

Students from Trent College have been heading off to exotic destinations on amazing expeditions for many years as shown by the list in the table below. The school gives great support to these ambitious ventures as it recognises the value of giving students a wide variety of new experiences. A large number of lucky students would agree that their Trent expedition pushed them hard physically and mentally, helped them to work as part of a team, gave them the opportunity to travel to new countries, to experience different cultures and simply to have an incredible time.

 

The overall aim is to lead a major overseas expedition every two years, giving each Sixth Former a chance to take part. Since 2002, Trent has also arranged a trip for Main School pupils during the summer half-term as an introduction to expeditions. These highly successful trips have lasted up to ten days and involved destinations such as Morocco, Turkey and in 2009, Iceland. These trips are in addition to those organised for pupils doing their Duke of Edinburgh's Award, details of which are given here.

 

Trent has been lucky over the years to have a good number of enthusiastic and competent teachers who have been more than willing to organise expeditions. The vast majority of the trips have been run by those teachers without using one of the large companies who specialise in school trips. This has given the participants a special ownership of the plans. On return, the expedition groups have usually produced a written expedition report and an audio-visual presentation to a large audience of friends, family and staff, thus using their experiences as a basis for learning new skills.

 

2008 was a great year for Trent expeditions, with a nine day expedition to Turkey for 16 Year 9 pupils and a month long adventure for 17 Sixth Formers and four staff in Mongolia. 2009 was every bit as exciting, starting in May when a group of 18 pupils from Year 9 travelled to Iceland for an expedition involving hiking, walking on glaciers, white-water rafting and general sightseeing in an amazing country. This was followed in July with a Sixth Form expedition to East Greenland where they trekked through tough terrain, hiked up glaciers and climbed peaks.