The process of organising the return visit of our Dutch hosts from October 2023 is now well under way. We are looking forward to reciprocating the fantastic experience our pupils received during our four night stay with the players from Hopbel Hockey Club. The return dates are from Saturday 20 April through to Wednesday 24 April. These dates are at the start of the Trinity Term to allow all year groups to host if they wish and it is before the Year 11s get into their examination window.
The girls and boys are a variety of ages, between 12 and 16. This may be of interest if your child would like to participate in the Holland visit in October 2024 (current Year 9 boys and girls), however this invitation is open to all families. In order to help, we are looking for families who can offer to host a pair (or more) of Dutch visitors and are willing to entertain and involve them in your family life for either all, or some, of the four nights, we can look at visitors moving between families and are happy to discuss this further.
We will organise an itinerary of fixtures and activities during the school days and a BBQ for our guests with their host families on Sunday 21 April. We will let you know who the other host families are so that you can organise other events together if you wish. We will supply bus tickets for the Dutch visitors should these be required but they will need to be picked up after fixtures each day from College.
Due to the requisite safeguarding checks, all adults (members of the family over 18-years-old) within the household must hold an enhanced DBS certificate, to be sent for by the Princethorpe Foundation, even if they currently have a DBS certificate from another employer. If you are subscribed to the DBS Update Service, please do let us know. To allow plenty of time for the DBS certificates to be received before the tour, please do contact our Recruitment team here to book an appointment. The DBS check has to be done within the three months prior to the visit. It will only take 15 minutes per person to apply for the DBS certificates, and one person from the household can bring the documentation on behalf of everyone in the household. The recruitment team are available Monday to Friday from 8.00am until 5.00pm. If you have any questions, please do contact Claire Wildsmith or Suz Jeffery on 01926 634269 or by email here. Please see the attached document entitled ‘Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks’ for the ID documentation required.
Many thanks for your continued support of Princethorpe Sport and we hope that you can continue this by hosting some Dutch guests in April.
