Your child will have the opportunity to experience a wide range of visits, trips and experiences whilst they are a pupil at DPA.  These have been carefully planned to deepen and further learning and understanding or to inspire and foster independence, confidence and perseverance. 

We try to keep the costs for trips down to a minimum and never make a profit from these opportunities.  All school trips that take place within the school day are paid for through voluntary contributions from parents/carers.  The school cannot afford to subsidise or pay for these trips, and so, if insufficient contributions are received from parents/carers the trip will not be able to go ahead.  Please do speak to the school office if you are finding any payment difficult. 

For residential trips and special trips, such as O2 choir trip, payment must be made in full in advance of the trip to ensure that your child has a place. 

This list will give you a flavour of the opportunities available

Pre-school

• Visits from Didcot library
• Visits from the fire service with a fire engine
• Trip to Sutton Courtenay Environmental Education Centre
• Cross country competition
• Christmas craft and sing along with parents
• End of year presentation to parents
• Sports day

Reception

• Locality walk
• Trip to Beale Park (animal project)
• Nativity production
• Presentations to parents 
• Poetry slam
• Cross country competition
• Sports day

Year 1

• Christmas craft and sing-along with parents
• Theatre visit - Cornerstones
• Victorian School Experience
• Toys and games of the past experience
• Sports day
• Presentations to parents
• Poetry slam
• Cross country
• local field studies

Year 2

• Didcot Railway Centre - Isambard Kingdom Brunel
• Windsor Palace
• Beach visit - geography focus
• Christmas performance
• Presentations to parents
• poetry slam
• sports day
• cross country

Year 3

• Swimming (prior to going on a residential with waterspouts)
• Fossils workshop
• Stonehenge Visit
• Chedworth Roman Villa trip
• Virtual reality volcano experience
• Christmas concert
• Whole class djembe lessons
• Djembe concert
• Presentations to parents
• sports day
• poetry slam
• cross country
• House competitions
• DPA's got Talent
• Summer Concert (choir and instrumentalists)

Year 4

• 2 night/ 3 day residential trip in the Summer term (Swindon)
• Henley River and Rowing field trip 
• Viking Virtual reality experience
• Christmas concert
• Presentations to parents
• sports day
• poetry slam
• cross country
• House competitions
• DPA's got Talent
• Summer Concert (choir and instrumentalists)

Year 5

• Farming workshops 
• Museum visit 
• Winchester Science museum 
• Whole class ukulele lessons
• ukulele concert
• Presentations to parents
• sports day
• poetry slam
• cross country
• House competitions
• DPA's got Talent
• Summer Concert (choir and instrumentalists)
• Christmas concert

Year 6

• Milestones Museum
• Kilvrough Residential trip 5 days/4 nights
• Virtual reality Antarctic experience
• West End theatre trip
• Year 6 end of year performance
• Presentations to parents
• sports day
• poetry slam
• cross country
• House competitions
• DPA's got Talent
• Summer Concert (choir and instrumentalists)

Other opportunities:

• Choir - O2 Young Voices event - singing with 7000 other children to a sold out audience.
• Choir - singing at local residential homes 
• Representing the school at a range of sporting events
• International day at secondary school