Dear Parent/Carer,
Year 10 Oxford University Visit – Tuesday 18th March 2025
Our Academy is dedicated to ensuring that all students receive a broad and balanced curriculum, encompassing learning both inside and outside of the classroom. At GCSE, this learning also includes exploring further and higher education opportunities, including university visits.
On Tuesday 18th March, your child will be visiting Oxford University. Oxford University is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious universities, educating over 24,000 students from over 140 countries, demonstrating the diversity of this esteemed institution. Oxford itself is a historic and beautiful city, renowned worldwide as a centre of learning, intellectual achievement, and innovation. This trip has been arranged to support the Year 10 students at the start of this significant time in their secondary school education, and our visit to the University has the purpose of building students’ confidence and resilience, as well as awarding them the opportunity to experience learning at a centre of academic excellence.
Mansfield College at Oxford University have organised this trip for a number of Greenwich schools and have provided a coach to transport us to and from the university. Please ensure your child arrives at the Academy at 7.45am. We will walk to meet the coach at Thomas Tallis School. Students will return via coach to Thomas Tallis School at approximately 5.00pm, depending on traffic. Please complete this Google Form to indicate whether you wish your child to travel home independently from Thomas Tallis School after the event or whether you wish them to return to Leigh Academy Halley with a staff member to be collected.
All students should wear full Academy uniform and have with them a coat for walking around the outside areas of the university. Lunch will be kindly provided to us by Mansfield College.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at isabel.ruthven@halley.latrust.org.uk.
Yours faithfully,
Ms Isabel Ruthven | Deputy Head of Franklin School