Recent School Trips

They say that travel broadens the mind and the pupils of Truro School have been testing the truth of the old saying. Many of the school’s 840 pupils at some time left their classroom behind in a minibus or coach to go out into the wider world.

Some pupils went off round the world – rugby players travelled to Australia, netball players to South Africa, and there were other trips for all age-groups to Russia, the western United States, Vienna, Valencia, Brittany, Hanover, Malaga, Tenerife, Paris, the French Alps, Norway and Austria.

Closer to home there were theatre trips to London, Plymouth, Stratford, Bristol and Truro; art workshops and visits to St Ives and West Penwith, Geevor Mine and local estuaries and rivers; geography and geology trips to the Lizard, Cligga Head and Carn Brea, Bude, Godrevy, the Jurassic Coast in Dorset; biology trips to Plymouth, Newquay, the Eden Project and Falmouth beaches. Debating, literature and philosophy took students to Newcastle, Hereford, Bodmin, Exmouth, Bristol, Yeovil, Northampton. Young Enterprise participants convened in various Cornish hotels, while Design and Technology students went out to visit local industries in Hayle and Redruth.  Musicians and singers performed in Methodist Central Hall and St Paul’s Cathedral in London as well as at the Hall for Cornwall and Truro Cathedral.

The school’s Junior Outdoor Education scheme for Years 7,8 and 9 involved twelve weekends in the last year at its centre on Bodmin Moor, and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (and Ten Tors) involved expeditions on more than fourteen weekends.  Gold Award Expeditions went to Slovenia and to the Lake District at the beginning of the summer holidays.

What hasn’t been mentioned of course is the huge number of matches played by Truro School pupils in every age-group, which included tours last year to London and Sussex, as well as national and regional competitions.

Forthcoming Trips