On Friday 5th February, the whole of Oundle’s Third Form (Year 9) set off just after dawn on twenty different Trivium Trips – Trippium – around the country. Designed to place learning for its own sake at the heart of the curriculum, Trivium is a course, based purely on ‘interestingness’. It complements the School’s extensive Voluntaries programme and Extended Project Qualifications (EPQs), encouraging pupils to extend their learning beyond subjects for academic assessment.
Among destinations far afield, pupils explored the history and architecture of London, the libraries, colleges and ancient printing presses of Oxford, the fine art, controversies and quadrangles of Cambridge, the mediaeval strongholds and cathedrals of Lincoln and Coventry, alongside modern exhibitions, debates about Kafka and piles of weaponry. Other groups closer to home toured the historic centres of Stamford and Uppingham, and one group even ended up in prison – a planned stop, of course! 
Head of Trivium, William Gunson commented, “Trippium is the annual day trip for all Trivium sets, where each group of ten pupils and their teacher goes somewhere different, with carte blanche to explore something interesting in the UK, linked to their current extension topic.
Pupils reported having their eyes opened to myriad hidden corners of culture, enjoyed the off-piste day out, and thrived on the open challenge for the event to take the most eccentric picture – a competition to which there were over a hundred pupil entries from the twenty different locations.