Residential Visits in 2024-2025

Year 4

Our Year 4 children will visit Boreatton Hall in Shropshire from Wednesday 30th April - Friday 1st May 2025. The mansion house was built in 1857 and is a rare ‘calendar’ house with four main doors, 12 chimneys and 365 windows! Boreatton Park has everything you might need including a brilliant sports/activity hall with its superb climbing wall. They’ve also got a football pitch, a purpose-built dining room and the ‘Mini Moose’ lounge. Their 240 acres of grounds include a river, three lakes and abseiling towers. There are also five zip wires (including one across a lake), abseil towers, a high ropes course, Jacobs’ Ladders, five quad bike tracks, six giant swings and more!

Click here to see photographs from our trip!

Year 6

Our Year 6 children took part in a 7-day ski course in Bormio, North-West Italy from Sunday 2nd to Sunday 9th March 2025.

Click here to see photographs from our trip!

Residential Visits in 2023-2024

Year 4

Our Year 4 children have visited Boreatton Hall in Shropshire. The visit took place from Wednesday 1st May - Friday 3rd May 2024. The mansion house was built in 1857 and is a rare ‘calendar’ house with four main doors, 12 chimneys and 365 windows! Boreatton Park has everything you might need including a brilliant sports/activity hall with its superb climbing wall. They’ve also got a football pitch, a purpose-built dining room and the ‘Mini Moose’ lounge. Their 240 acres of grounds include a river, three lakes and abseiling towers. There are also five zip wires (including one across a lake), abseil towers, a high ropes course, Jacobs’ Ladders, five quad bike tracks, six giant swings and more!

There are more photographs from Year 4's PGL Visit in the Children's section, under Class Pages, Year 4, Photographs 2023-2024.

Year 5

Our Year 5 children took part in a 4 day residential to northern France from Monday 1st July to Friday 5th July 2024. The children stayed in the magnificent Chateau du Broutel near the town of Rue in several acres of beautiful grounds.  In order to develop their cultural knowledge of France the children visited a snail farm. They also visited a chocolate factory and saw how chocolate is produced. One of the highlights of the visit was a visit to the town of Albert in the Somme. This area was in the heart of the fighting in the Great War. During the day the children visited the famous Battle of the Somme Museum and then visited the memorial site at Thiepval before visiting the trenches at the Newfoundland Regiment Memorial.

Click here to see photographs from our trip!

Year 6

Our Year 6 children took part in a 7 day ski course in Bormio, North-West Italy from Sunday 21st January 2024 to Sunday 28th January 2024.

Click here to see photographs from our trip!

Click here to see photographs from our trip!

Residential Visit - France 2019

PGL Residential

Year 4

24th to 26th April 2019

YEAR 5 TRIP TO CHATEAU DU BROUTEL

FRANCE

July 2018

Monday 2nd July

Waiting for the Eurostar.

Ski trip 2018

Le Corbier

Outbound - Saturday 20th January John Lennon Airport, flight EZY 7263

Please arrive by 11.30a.m.

Return - Saturday 27th January Grenoble Airport, flight EZY 7264

Arriving at John Lennon Airport at approximately, 7.40 p.m. 

**Remember to pack ski socks and 2 packed lunches in your hand luggage.

( no drinks or yogurts) 

YEAR 5 TRIP TO CHATEAU DU BROUTEL

FRANCE

3rd-7th JULY 2017

Monday 3rd July

Chateau Olympics

Tuesday 4th July

Obstacle course & zip wire

Today the children had a fun packed morning in the grounds of the Chateau. They were split into two groups then enjoyed time on the zip wire and the obstacle course. 

Rue Tour

After a filling lunch, we put on our walking shoes and set off into Rue. Our Chateau guides told the children about the history of the town and we visited the Bell Tower, (Beffroi) the museum and local church. Afterwards, the children practised their French speaking skills  in 'Cafe du Commerce'. They ordered drinks and had ice cream whilst sitting in the sun. 

Wednesday 5th July

Chocolate Factory and Farm

Rafting and Kayaking

Thursday 6th July

Today is our final day of adventure in France and we began by visiting the town of Albert. We visited the Battle of Somme museum. This was an underground tunnel in medieval times to avoid the plague and later, during the Second World War, an air raid shelter. The children were guided through the museum which depicts many scenes of life in the trenches for all those who fought. There were also many exhibits of various rifles, trench art and other weapons used in this conflict. The children were also shown the uniform of a 'Tommy' and given the opportunity to dress up as one and feel the weight of all the equipment. Well done Levi!

Afterwards, we visited the Lochnagar crater. British sappers spent weeks prior to the 1st July 1916, digging tunnels deep under German positions. They packed the tunnel with 28 tonnes of explosives and exploded it on July 1st at 07.28, just 2 minutes before troops left their trenches. The crater is 91 metres in diameter and 21 metres in depth . The explosion was heard in London!

After lunch we visited the largest British/ French war cemetery in the world 'Thiepval'. The children had opportunity to reflect on those soldiers who gave up their lives in the Great War. They spent time looking at individual graves and lay down a cross in respect for the soldiers courage and bravery. 

Finally, at Beaumont-Hamel,  we remembered the Newfoundland Regiment's valiant advance on the 1st July. The children walked in the same trenches that the young soldiers had built back in 1916.  Of the 800 who advanced, only 68 answered the roll call at the end of the day.

Somme: Battlefields

Year 5 Trip to Chateau du Broutel

France

20th -24th June 2016

Waiting patiently to go through the Euro Tunnel 

Monday 20th June

Arrival at the Chateau

Bonjour everyone!! We finally arrived safely at Chateau du Broutel this evening after a long but exciting coach journey. We were immediately met by the wonderful staff who then led us all to our lovely rooms (no doubt the children will sleep well tonight after their very early wake up call). A tasty evening meal was served and then the children explored the grounds before heading off to bed. 

Tuesday 21st June

Kayaking and Rafting- Tour of Rue

Today the children had a fun packed morning in the grounds of the Chateau. They were split into two groups then got wet and wild as they took part in kayaking and raft building activities at the Lakeside. 
After a filling lunch, we put on our walking shoes and set off into Rue. Our Chateau guides told the children  about the history of the town as we visited the Bell Tower,( Beffroi) the museum and the local church. We also saw a building that used to be a public house - now holiday home- which appeared in the Harry Potter film 'The Prisoners of Azkaban'. 
Afterwards, the children had the opportunity to show off their French speaking skills and spend some of their Euros when they visited a local cafe ( Cafe du Commerce ) to buy a drink. 

Wednesday 22nd June

Chocolate Factory & Goat Farm

The children have had another brilliant day! The morning began with a trip to the 'Beussent' chocolate factory. During the workshop, we were shown how different types of chocolate is made and moulded into shapes ready for the shops. We even got to try a few samples and spend some more euros. 
Our next stop was the goat farm. We received a warm welcome from Eliane, the owner. She spoke only  in French to the children but they were excellent at interpreting what she said. We then had the opportunity to handle and feed some of the farm animals. The children saw baby goats - chevreau, cows - vaches, chicken - poules, rabbits - lapins. Eliane then gave us a fascinating demonstration of how to make cheese from goats milk. 

Thursday 23rd June

Somme: Battlefields Tour

This year is 100 years since the 'Battle of Somme' took place. We are therefore very privileged to visit these sites in such a special year of remembrance. 

Our day began by visiting the town of Albert, site of fierce fighting during the Great War. We saw the famous Basillica of Notre Dame de Brebieres , whose statue of the Virgin Mary toppled, fulfilling the legend that this would signal the end of the war!

We visited the Battle of Somme museum. This was an underground tunnel in medieval times to avoid the plague and later, during the Second World War, an air raid shelter. The children were guided through the museum which depicts many scenes of life in the trenches for all those who fought. There were also many exhibits of various rifles, trench art and other weapons used in this conflict. The children were also shown the uniform of a 'Tommy' and given the opportunity to dress up as one and feel the weight of all the equipment. Well done Harry!

After lunch, we visited the Lochnagar crater. British sappers spent weeks prior to the 1st July 1916, digging tunnels deep under German positions. They packed the tunnel with 28 tonnes of explosives and exploded it on July 1st at 07.28, just 2 minutes before troops left their trenches. The crater is 91 metres in diameter and 21 metres in depth . The explosion was heard in London!

We visited Beaumont-Hamel where we remembered the Newfoundland Regiment's valiant advance on the 1st July. The children walked in the same trenches that the young soldiers had built back in 1916.  Of the 800 who advanced, only 68 answered the roll call at the end of the day.

Finally, the children were given the opportunity to visit both a German and British war cemetery where we reflected on the terrible loss of life and listened to Mr Williams read poems by a variety of war poets:

They shall not grow old,
as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun 
and in the morning
We will remember them

Liverpool Primary Ski Association

Serre Chevalier

12th-19th March 2016

Perfect skiing conditions greeted us this morning for our last day on the slopes and the children spent the day perfecting their techniques whilst the instructors completed their final assessments of the children for the presentation later this evening at the hotel. The children had a great day before skiing was finally over for this year.

After dinner Liverpool Primary Ski Association presentation took place; a wonderful evening celebrating the successes from this year's ski course.

The winners from our school were:

Best technical skier: Dani Albouaini

Most improved skier: Josh Geoghegan

Star pupil: Daniel Penny

Best diary: Anna Verma and Sophie Carley

Best room: Mete Zacharkiw, Alex Williams and Dani Albouaini

Other awards: Cameron Rooney, Lewis Godby, Emmett Cain, Maria Czerepak, 

Thank you to Mr Tony McKee (Mr McSki) and the team of people involved in the Liverpool Primary Ski Course for organising such an amazing experience in Serre Chevalier, I'm sure the children will remember this trip forever.