Trips and Visits

11th October 19

WGS 4th Form GCSE Art and Textiles pupils enjoyed a creative day when they visited the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Armed with cameras and sketchbooks, pupils studied artefacts and paintings relating to their chosen GCSE themes. This was great timing as the newly refurbished gallery 3 had been opened only the previous day. A range of…

21st May 19

WGS Prep 5 Pupils returned from a busy, but exciting, residential trip to Ufton Court a beautiful Elizabethan manor in the Berkshire countryside. Following in the footsteps of Sir Francis Drake timeline from 1577 to 1580, the ‘Tudor Explorers’ joined the crew circumnavigating the world. They set sail in their galleons on a journey of…

26th April 19

At the beginning of April, pupils and staff from WGS travelled to Southampton to take part in the ‘Student Robotics 2019’ Competition.  Pupils had been working hard since November 2018 designing, building and testing their robot.  Teams were challenged to control scoring zones with tokens while navigating an arena with raised platforms. Twenty-five scoring zones were…

15th April 19

Forty 2nd Form pupils toured northern France and Paris in the first week of the Easter break in order to take in French life and culture. One day was spent trying traditional French foods, with a visit to a snail farm and an artisan boulangerie where they made croissants. Pupils were set an “One Euro…

26th March 19

The Christine Noxon Travel Award This Award, to the value of £500, is open to current pupils and those within 3 years of completing A- levels at Wisbech Grammar School, to support independent travel for educational purposes. Travel must be completed before the end of the following academic year. It is sponsored by Christine Noxon,…

22nd March 19

Fifteen pupils who plan to study Psychology next year, attended events held by the University of Cambridge. The afternoon started in a shipping container, watching the ‘Unkindest Cut’, a national touring show devised by an audio visual artist, in association with a consultant in adolescent psychiatry. It was an intense and moving performance, designed to…

22nd March 19

Pupils were welcomed to Stibbington Centre for their ‘Rocks and Soil’ science topic , where learning outside the classroom started with a unique and inspirational introductory talk demonstrating the importance of rocks in everyday life. Pupils then travelled by bus to a nearby disused limestone quarry, to discover how rock was formed under the sea…

21st March 19

As part of their Geography and English work, Prep 4 pupils attended a ‘Meet the Bees’ workshop held by Huntingdon Bee Keepers Association at Hinchingbrooke Country Park. Roger Wood along with his two colleagues, talked to the children about how a bee hive works, the different species of bees, how honey is made and the importance…

13th March 19

Fifteen 5th and 6th Form pupils visited Parliament and Whitehall as part of their A-Level course and the School’s Enrichment Programme on Friday 1 March. The highlight of the trip was a tour of the Palace of Westminster itself, including both the House of Lords and the House of Commons, Central Lobby and voting lobbies….

9th October 18

Prep 5 Trip to Mountfitchet Castle On Thursday 20 September, the children in Prep 5 travelled back almost one thousand years in time when they visited Mountfitchet Castle in Stansted. Here, they experienced what life was like for people living in a Motte and Bailey Castle during the medieval period in history. The children thoroughly…