PGL Le Pré Catelan
Le Touquet: Northern France
Ashfield Park Residential for Year 6
pupils
12th-16th March 2012
Key information tonight
• PGL background
• Pre-travel
• Travel
• Accommodation
• Facilities
• Overview of Week
• Schedule of activities
• Catering and diet
• Health and Safety
• Keeping in Touch
• FAQs
• Questions
PGL background
• Fully risk assessed
• ABTA bonded
• Over 50 years experience
• An organisation that the
school has used
successfully for 2
previous trips abroad +
residentials in the UK
Pre-Travel
12th March Schedule:
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6.45am (but not before) – pupils in Junior Hall.
They will need:
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Packed Lunch (Disposable bag)
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A suitcase (They can carry themselves)
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Hand Luggage – rucksack (With something to do!)
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Limit please sweeties (Travel sickness)
They will need to hand in:
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Any medication referred to on the OV4 form to Miss. Bateman
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Inhalers (We will let them take them out and about) to Miss.
Bateman
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Travel sickness tablets (If really needed!)
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Any outstanding EHIC cards (They will need these) to Mr. Best
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Up to 30 Euros in a clearly labelled wallet to Mr. Best
We will take:
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The Collective Passport
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First Aid equipment etc…
Travel
Approximate travel times:
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Departing Ashfield Park at 7.00am prompt. Whitchurch 7.30pm
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A break for coffee (Reading area)
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A break for lunch (Kent area)
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Folkestone to Calais via Eurotunnel: 35 minutes (2.20pm)
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Calais to Le Pré Catelan: Less than 45 minutes by coach
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Arrive by 4.30pm.
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Reverse of route on return to school
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Arriving Ashfield Park at 7.30pm (Fri)
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If we are running early/late the school will contact parents via the website,
which will be updated until 5pm.
Map
Le Pré Catelan
Accommodation
• Multi bedded rooms each with a wash basin
• Toilets on each floor
• Separate shower and toilet
block (Pupils must bring their own towels)
• Rooms allocated the week before departure
Le Pré Catelan
Facilities
• On-site activity bases
• Private gardens and
grounds for our school
party to access including
Football pitch (mini), volley
ball net, table tennis.
• Shop on site (Open final
night for the disco!)
Overview
• Day 1 – Culture and Activity
• Day 2 – Culture and History
• Day 3 - Activity and Education
Schedule of activities
Activities that we have organised:
- La Boulangerie Maillard-Trupin (making croissants and pain au chocolat)
- Challenge Course/Climbing Wall/Team building
- Traditional French local Market (Berck-Plage) – shopping
- Circuit du Souvenir (bomb craters, cemetaries and trenches from WW1 nr.
Albert)
- Beach activities (Visit to WW2 sites, sail boarding, kite flying etc..)
- Sea life Centre in Boulogne (Nausicaa)
+ In the evening:
- Quiz Night
- Nightline
- Disco
- Challenge Evening
- French Evening
+ On the way home:
- Visit to Calais Hypermarket
(Some of this may be subject to change dependent on the weather)
Catering
& dietary needs
• 3 nutritious, balanced
meals per day
• Vegetarian option
• Special diets catered for
by prior arrangement – we
will notify the centre of
any pupil with an allergy.
• The food was fantastic
last year
Staying safe!
The PGL Code of Practice describes all safety and
operational procedures both on and off-site including:
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risk assessments
staff to pupil ratios
operating procedures
staff vetting and training
site security
first aid procedures
emergency procedures
Keeping in Touch!
The school will try and keep the website updated as much as
we can as to how we are getting on:
Broadband connection is weak
so sometimes photos and pictures
may/may not be available. Some
updates may be via school office via
phone contact.
School Mobile Phone Number
will be given by the office in
emergencies.
If we have any worries – we
will contact you – we have all
emergency contacts with us.
FAQ’s
• Passports (School has Collective passport)
• Please remember your EHIC
• What to take with you – kit list (leaflet – sent out)
• Valuable items – best left at home
• Pocket money – how much to take (letter)
• Electrical appliances – must be safe (No plug in
devices for pupils please)
• Deodorants – roll-on only please (fire alarms)
• Laundry – emergencies only
• The journey (DS/Ipod/Shuffles/MP3 – but they are for
only and are pupils responsibility)
• You can bring cheap digital cameras + USBs– (but
need to look after them please)
• We discourage mobile phones
the journey
pupils will
Thank you for coming
Are there any questions?
This powerpoint has been uploaded to the website.
If you want to view last years visit – see our website archive (Feb/Mar 2011)