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 Educational
Visits Advice
Educational Visit Policy Guidelines Updated 2008
This area contains advice for staff from Sheffield Schools planning
educational visits – whether it is to Thornbridge Outdoors,
or any other off-site educational visit. It is intended that the
content of this site will develop to include a forum for exchange
of ideas and information, as well as providing the most up to date
advice for Sheffield Schools.
If you have any comments to make on the materials and information
provided please email: edvisits@thornbridgeoutdoors.co.uk
Educational
Visits Coordinator (EVC)
Each school has had the opportunity to have an EVC trained. This
person has a key role in school supporting staff who are planning
visits and helping to ensure that correct procedures are followed.
To Find out when the next EVC training course is click here
EVC
Newsletter
News and Information for Educational Visits Co-ordinators.
 Spring
2005
Autumn
2005
Summer 2006
Spring
2007
Spring
2008
Guidance
The most recent edition of the LA's guidelines for educational
visits was sent to all schools, along with an explanatory letter,
in January 2005. They are contained on a CD, with a range of supporting
documents.
Two
documents from the CD are now available on this site. The full Educational
Visits Guidelines document and a Summary
document which provides an outline of the main processes involved
in organising and conducting a visit. Both of these documents
are provided here in PDF format, note that the hyperlinks within
the documents are inactive in this version. A full version of both
documents, with active hyperlinks, is available on the CD.
To
view this document you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader which you
can download from here.
If
you have a booking at Thornbridge Outdoors you can download a PDF
version of the joint visit approval and booking form here
or a word version here.
Educational
Visit Forms
Visit Planning Checklist
Visit Approval Form
Provider Form
Event-Specific Risk Assessment
Parental Consent
Critical Incident Response
Volunteer Driver Form
Generic
Risk Assessments
April 2008 Generic Risk Assessment Updated
A CD containing all of the Generic risk assessments was sent to
each school in November 2003. This material is continuously being
added to and updated, and the most recent version is available for
downloading here. You may download
the entire document or just the single risk assessment relating
to an individual activity.
Additional
Sources of Advice
The DfES has supported the production of several useful documents
– all of which can be downloaded from www.teachernet.gov.uk/visits
These
include two documents containing practical advice for group leaders:
1. “Group Safety at Water Margins”
2. “A handbook for Group Leaders”
In
addition there are two other documents which may be of use;
1. “Standards for LAs in Overseeing Educational
Visits”
2. “Standards for Adventure”
Educational
Visits Review
Letter
to Primary and Special Schools
School Self
Evaluation Checklist
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