PGL Le Pré Catelan Le Touquet - St Teresa`s Catholic Primary School

PGL Le Pré Catelan
Le Touquet: Northern France
St Teresa’s Catholic Primary
Residential for Year 6 pupils
1st-4th July 2016
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 last year for the
Year 6 residential.
Pre-Travel
£110 Deposit paid by 30th September:
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Payment plan to spread cost.
Total cost of visit £340
Must ensure your child has a passport (if nationality is not
British, need to inform us in good time so that we can
make arrangements)
Complete medical forms
Provide contact details
Ensure you apply for a EHIC
2 weeks prior to departure we will collect all documents
€20 spending money- collected 2 weeks before departure
1st July Proposed Schedule:
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Early Morning – meet on school playground- load up coach
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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Electronic games brought at own risk (no mobile phones)
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Up to £10 spending money for trip down
They will need to hand in:
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Any medication to staff (including travel sickness tablets)
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Inhalers
We will take:
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All passports/EHICs/Euros
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First Aid equipment etc…
Travel
Approximate travel times:
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Departing St Teresa’s- time of departure not yet known, will be early
morning.
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A break for coffee (Oxford area)
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Dover to Calais ferry crossing: 90 minutes
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Calais to Le Pré Catelan: Less than 45 minutes by coach
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Arrive during afternoon.
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Reverse of route on return to school
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Arriving St Teresa’s late evening -Monday 4th July
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If we are running early/late the school will contact parents via school
texting service.
Map
Le Pré Catelan
Accommodation
• Multi bedded rooms each with a wash basin
• Toilets on each floor
• Separate shower and toilet
block – new facilities (Pupils must bring
their own towels)
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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, climbing
wall
• Shop on site (Open final
night for the disco!)
Le Pré Catelan
Facilities
• 10 minutes walk to beach – seaside
town - Hardelot Plage
Overview
Friday 1st July
Saturday 2nd July
Sunday 3rd July
Monday 4th July
Tuesday 5th July
Leave school – early morning
(approx 6am)
Etaples: The
Commonwealth Forces
Military Cemetery
Musee du Mur de
l’Atlantique
Beach/Coastal Walk
Children not required to attend
school – authorised absence –
allowing children and staff
time to recover.
Lunch
Packed Lunch at the beach
This WWI millitary
cemetery, the largest of its
kind in France, was designed
by Sir Edwin Lutyens and
commemorates 12,000
British and Commonwealth
soldiers.
La Boulangerie Maillard
Visit to local bakery where
children will make their own
bread or croissants.
Lunch- Packed Lunch before
boarding Ferry
Lunch
Ferry Dover – Calais
Visit to Le Touquet town90 minutes
visit to ice cream shop.
Arrive at Calais- transfer to Sandcastles and paddling
centre – 45 mins
in the sea.
The Atlantic Wall Museum
is inside the old German
headquarter which was in
charge of the batteries
covering the entrance of
the river Orne and the
canal. The 52ft high
concrete tower has been
fully restored to make it
look how it was on the 6th
of June 1944.
On site activity sessions:
Pack up belongings
Visit to a hypermarket- last
minute gifts before home!
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Ferry Calais – Dover
Late afternoon
90 minutes
Arrive at Dover – evening
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Kite Building
Sandcastle Building
Competition
-surivial (den buidling)
Arrive at Le Pre Catalan,
tour of centre- and unpack.
Games on site.
Evening Meal
Walk to beach- games
(football, cricket etc),
evening prayers on the
beach
Dinner and evening
activities
Mini Olympicsbeach
Walk along the coastline
local to the centre. On the
session participants will
have the opportunity to
explore the natural
environment and to take
part in tasks and games
associated with it.
Dinner and evening
activities
Disco
Arrive back at school late
evening..
Final arrival notified by
telephone message
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!
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Subject to having wireless internet staff will update the
school facebook page.
School will send texts when children arrive in France
Emergency Mobile Phone Number
will be given.
If we have any worries – we
will contact you – we have all
emergency contacts with us.
FAQ’s
• Passports
• 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 (20 Euros)
• 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 the journey
only and are pupils responsibility)
• You can bring cheap digital cameras + USBs– (but pupils will need
to look after them please)
• No mobile phones
Thank you for coming
Are there any questions?