New Road Academy
Educational Visits
New Road Academy
Aims to offer children a broad, rich, and engaging curriculum
Here at New Road Academy, we offer our students an exciting and enriching program of educational visits. We aim to support our students learning and enrich their lives, aiming to give them experiences that will help shape them into young, well-grounded adults.
Curriculum:
- Cardingmill Valley
- Shrewsbury Town Centre
- Attingham Park
- Cosford
- Warwick Castle
- Manchester Imperial War Museum
- Theatre Visits; An Inspector Calls, A Christmas Carol, Macbeth
- Fieldtrips
- Liverpool World Museum and Art Gallery
- Places of religious meaning; Church, Gurdwara, Vihara, Temples
- Black Country Museum
- Worcester Infirmary Museum
- Photographic Exhibition
Careers:
- Stafford College
- Telford College
- Shrewsbury College
- Idsall 6th Form
- Shrewsbury 6th Form
- Wolverhampton University
- Chester University
- Haper Adams University
- NEC Skills Show
- NEC BIG Bang
- Careers Fair, NEC
- Work Placement Visits; Hobbycraft, Makita, Homebase
- Liverpool Slavery Museum
- MAC23 Army Challenge
Enrichment:
- Shrewsbury Gotta Dance
- Yonex Badminton Championships
- Shakespeare’s Stratford
- Greenpower Racing Qualifiers
- Theatre visits; Aladdin, A Ghost Story 2.22, Hamilton, Elf, Peter Pan Goes Wrong
- Volunteering at Food Banks and Clothes Banks
- Attingham Park Blossom Project
- Liverpool Maritime Museum
- National Science Competitions
- STEM Coding with Lego
- Basketball National Finals
- Manchester Football Stadium Tour
- Spanish Sports Tour
- Windrush Exhibition
- Sports Leadership Program
- Woodland Wellbeing
Our curriculum-based trips help to support our students learning throughout the key stages. Many of these same trips are also chosen for their enrichment properties too.
We are proud to offer such a wide variety of visits to local Colleges, Universities, and 6th Form providers in our area, as part of our key stage4 next steps Careers program. We aim for our students to experience taster sessions or take part in workshops which we hope will help our year 10 and year 11 students make informed decisions of where they want to go when they leave New Road Academy.
Global Consent
For those trips that are free of charge, and take place during normal school hours, we use Global Parental Consent. This is extremely popular with both our parents and students alike, and we use the Global Consent held on the school system to allow students to attend visits at short notice, due to absence of a student or a change of mind on the day. The Global Consent Form is given out to all new starters here at New Road Academy and should be completed and handed in with the necessary school application forms. Parents/carers will always be notified of any trip by letter, and an email will be sent out with all the details closer to the date of the visit. Should your child wish to take a vacant space on a trip that day parents will be notified.
If you have not given school your Global Consent it is easy to do so, just email in and ask for this to be added to your child’s school account.
Expectations
Whilst on visits students are reminded that they are representing the academy and are expected to behave according to the academy’s behaviour policy, showing respect and courtesy to the public as well as staff. The academy reserves the right to refuse any student a place on a visit if their behaviour is judged to be inappropriate before the visit. All students will be briefed prior to any visit as to what is expected of them. Students are also reminded that they need to catch up on any schoolwork missed during the time away on a trip.
Other educational visits
For all our trips where a payment is required, we use a program called ParentPay. This system allows parents to not only pay for a trip but also give their consent for their child to attend. Regardless of whether the trip is free or at a cost, consent is given through this program. It is important to have an activated ParentPay account so that your child does not miss out as spaces as some of our enrichment and career trips are limited.
To activate your ParentPay account you will require a unique username and password, which school can provide you with. Set up is easy and all you require is a phone, laptop or tablet and a working email address.
PLEASE NOTE: ParentPay is NOT used for catering at New Road Academy.
