School trips
Ripon Grammar School runs an ambitious programme of residential trips to enhance students’ learning and to provide intensive study of a particular area of the curriculum. These trips also have wider benefits in giving students the chance to be independent, to experience new places and often new cultures, to broaden their horizons and to build confidence.
Our residential trips are separate to the day visits and curriculum visits that take place throughout the school year.
Click on the images below to read more about school trips to Italy, Iceland and Paris:
World Challenge
Biennial 'World Challenge' expedition - every other year students have the opportunity to participate in this significant expedition to countries not typically on the tourist trail.
Previous expeditions have included Malaysia and Borneo, Cambodia and Vietnam, and Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Students who are in the fourth to sixth form may apply for a place on a World Challenge expedition.
The most recent was to Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Read more here
More than fifty students and staff previously spent four weeks in Ecuador where they took part in jungle treks, climbed volcanoes and stood on the equator. One team stayed with an indigenous Quichua community where they built accommodation in order to encourage eco-tourism.
Another adventurous expedition involved fifty students and staff spending four weeks in Nicaragua and Costa Rica where they took part in jungle treks, climbed volcanoes, visited remote coastal regions and worked with underprivileged children in schools. In summer 2016 a group of students visited Malaysia and Borneo and worked with local villagers on a bridge project.
RGS School Visits overview
| September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | |
| Y7 | English Pantomime £21 | History Richmond Castle £10 Science The Deep £25 | MFL (2025 onwards) France (5 days) tbc | |||||||||
| Y8 | Geography Yorkshire Wildlife Park £19 | History Beamish £16 | Water sports Ardeche (9 days) £800 | |||||||||
| Y9 | Skiing Italy £1630 | Geography* Flamborough Head £15 | Bewerley Park (5 days) £500 | |||||||||
| Y10 | Biology Thackray Museum £17 | Skiing Italy £1630 | DofE Bronze Practice Nidderdale (2 days) £293 | History Germany (4 days) £705 | Geography Italy (5 days) £1075 RS London (4 days) £499 | DofE Bronze Exped Dales (2 days) | ||||||
| Y11 | Geography* Cranedale (2 days) £190 | World Challenge Every other year c£4500 | ||||||||||
| Y12 | Geography Iceland (5 days) £1340 | DofE Gold Practice Dales (4 days) £535 | UCAS Convention Leeds £13 Oxford/Cambridge Uni (3 days each) £60 each | University of Newcastle open day £20 Psychology London (3 days) £350 Biology* Millport (3 days) £295 | DofE Gold Exped Lake District (5 days) World Challenge Every other year c£4500 | |||||||
| Y13 | Art Paris (4 days) £550 | World Challenge Every other year c£4500 |
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