School visit to China
The school is taking a group of 20 children from Years 5 and 6 to China for 12 days during the Easter holiday. Children usually spend the last three days of the spring term and the first week of their Easter holiday in China. They will then have a week to relax and enjoy back in the UK before the start of the summer term.
Our children spend around 6 days in the capital city Beijing, sightseeing but also spending time in Chinese primary schools. We then spend 4 days in another city, Hohhot (in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia) seeing the sights, and visiting local schools here. The children will be accompanied by Richard Alibon staff throughout the visit.
Our children just need to pay for their flights. The children will also need a passport which will be parents/ carers responsibility to obtain. This visit can be paid for in instalments. Our sponsor has offered to pay for the children’s hotel accommodation in China with meals, travel in China and any other costs for the visit. Sponsorship and private donations usually mean we can offer some free spaces to children whose families could not otherwise afford this once in a lifetime opportunity.
Details of our parent/carer briefings are below so you can have all the information you need to consider sending you child on this visit.
If you would like to look at the official UK government advice about travel to China, it can be found online using the link below:
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/china
TravelHealthPro is the website comprising the travel health resources of the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC). This was set up by the Department of Health in 2002 with the broad aim of Protecting the Health of British Travellers. The link for the medical advice for travel to China, can be found using the link below.
https://travelhealthpro.org.uk/country/49/china
The overseas and residential visits insurance policy held by the school can be found here:
School Journey Information Document
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham School Journey Policy Wording2026
Our PowerPoint presentation from the information briefing meetings can be found here:
China presentation for parents 2026
The information summary and sign up letter to parents/carers can be found here:
China information and sign-up letter for the visit in March April 2027
