Join the College and see the world!
The College organises many trips to support curriculum activity and makes all reasonable adjustments to accommodate students with disabilities. In the past year, students and staff have travelled to Beijing, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Prague, Brussels, Florence, Tenerife, Berlin, Sicily, New York, California and Tunisia - as well as undertaking exchange trips to France, Germany and Spain.
World Challenge Partners
The College has fully embraced the concept of World Challenge and in the past few years students have visited Outer Mongolia, Kenya, Mexico, Thailand, Argentina, Peru, Norway and the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. World Challenge is now working in partnership with the College to develop leadership courses as part of enrichment.
Presidential Classroom
Every year, students from all over the world meet in Washington DC at a conference for Future World Leaders, known as Presidential Classroom. Since 2000, students from this College have been selected as delegates of the UK. The experience is stimulating and challenging, both intellectually and socially, as they discuss and try to reach agreement, as a young United Nations, on issues of international significance.
Twinning with Poland and Ghana
The College has a well-established link with Liceum Ogólnoksztacàce in Sulechow, Poland, and with the Presbyterian Secondary Technical School in Aburi, Ghana. Students regularly exchange with both schools.
Travel Scholarships
In encouraging students to be adventurous and to pursue activities abroad, the College has established a Travel Scholarship Fund to assist students to participate in a wide range of projects involving world travel.
Becky Warnock spent 3 months in a remote part of Tanzania. "It was amazing ... living was challenging at times: close encounters with snakes and earthquakes added excitement! We learnt to carry things on our heads and to pound maize ... At the farewell party, we were treated like royalty, given gifts and huge quantities of food. It was strange, the people have nothing yet they were giving us presents! My eyes have been opened - It has made me grow up."
Jonathan Drinkwater spent 2 weeks in Malawi with a medical team from camberley Beacon Church. "We saw many diseases at the orphange which even the doctors had not seen before, including Elephantitis which a woman had had for 19 years. The saddest thing was that it can be so easily treated. I also saw congenital hypothyroidism in a little girl the size of a 1 year old who turned out to be 5 ... Overall my trip has changed me..."
Ben Thomas spent a year with project Trust helping street children in Bolivia. "One day they invited me to their house. I found the mother lying in bed - she hadn't moved for 4 months due to drinking bad water. I ended up taking her to hospital and shouting until they ran the tests - I was hardly going to let her die. The antibiotics cost less than $2 - in England I spend that amount catching a bus. I might have to go back to the hospital with her again - hey I feel I'm achieving something."