Residential Trips

​At Ludgvan School we believe the valuable experiences that children gain from
residential trips should be for all year groups, not just KS2. To that end, we run
a comprehensive residential programme that develops as your child moves
through school. This ensures that no residential is ever too big a jump for them
to manage and they can rely on their experiences from the previous year.

​Our smallest children in Early Years and Y1 are invited to stay ‘late’ at school for the evening playing games on the field, singing songs and having a picnic tea during the summer term. 

In Y2, children spend the night at Cohort Youth Hostel in St Ives. This is local to us, being only 7 miles away, but offers a different environment where the children enjoy a range of fun activities within west Penwith and around St Ives.

In Y3, children spend 2 nights away. They have spent their residential camps in Coverack and Treyarnon YHAs and have enjoyed trips to the Eden Project and Roskilly’s Farm For 2026 Y3 children will be spending their residential at BF adventure.  

 Our Y4 children enjoy an action packed 2 nights at Porthpean Outdoor Education Centre, where they tackle the high ropes course, coasteer their way around the coastline and develop their teamwork skills. 

In Y5, we head to London for 2 nights. We visit the Houses of Parliament, watch a West End show, enjoy the
London Eye and much more!

In Y6 the itinerary changes from year to year, but we have been know to camp on the Isles of Scilly, spend a week in France, go wild camping near Truro, spend the week in Butlins and this year we will be heading to a PGL residential in South Devon for three days of action packed fun. ​

We also welcome our friends from Five Islands School on the Isles of Scilly each year who camp in our school hall and visit our local area in our school minibuses.  

School trips and visits

We are fully committed to ensuring our children benefit from learning outside of the classroom as much as they do inside. We have two school minibuses which enables us to take a whole class out of school. Our staff make the most of this opportunity and take their classes on many trips linked to their in school learning.

Please see below for some of the trips that have taken place so far this year…

• ​Truro Museum 

• The Minack Theatre​

• Geevor Tin Mine

• Trevaskiss Farm

• Trink Dairy 

• Cornhill Farm

• Royal Cornwall Show

• Eden Project

• St Michael’s Mount

• Local beaches

• Ludgvan Church

• Mousehole

• Carn Euny ancient village

• Trencrom Hill