Hangzhou Dipont School of Arts and Science World Challenge Proposal

A LIFE OF POSSIBILITIES

We believe that overseas travel is one of the most empowering, life-altering forms of learning possible. We’re passionate about what we do and have dedicated ourselves to the pursuit of creating unique school trips that educate, enrich and inspire the next generation.

For over 35 years, we’ve enabled transformative travel experiences right around the world. These experiences complement school learning, giving students the opportunity to become true life-learners and global citizens.

It’s the kind of learning that students will carry with them long into the future; learning that can only come from experiencing this amazing planet and the unique cultures that inhabit it.

We give students the opportunity to write their own stories, make their own mistakes, live their own adventures, learn and grow with peers, and see the world with open eyes that are focused on those around them.

We’ve watched as these life-changing experiences have brought out the best in our challengers for many years, since 1987 in fact. It’s perhaps best brought to life by our 150,000+ alumni that have returned home forever changed, many being inspired to continue the pursuit of positive global citizenship, from advocacy work in foreign nations through to leading world-shaping environmental initiatives.

We offer much more than a trip overseas. That said, it all begins with saying yes to adventure, yes to ignoring comfort zones, yes to embracing the unknown.

A world of possibility awaits.

“THESE TRIPS HAVE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON STUDENTS’ CAREERS AND ON THEIR LIVES IN GENERAL.“

EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCES

LEADERSHIP EXPEDITIONS

Inspiring leadership through student-led expeditions.

Your expedition has been refined over 35 years of student travel, with an emphasis on developing tomorrow’s leaders.

LEARNING SERVICE JOURNEYS

Shaping global citizenship through tailored journeys of culture.

Curated to foster global citizenship through cultural immersion. It’s about taking students out of their bubbles and expanding their minds through the sharing of cultures.

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OUR COMMITMENT EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES TO

Together with our teachers, students and trip leaders, we’ve created a strong legacy of delivering the best, most cost-effective, life-enriching experiences possible.

We believe in the power of travel to educate and inspire young people. From providing online pre-departure learning resources to facilitating experiences on trips, we aim to maximise educational opportunities. We hope this will create a lasting impact, as travellers move into adulthood with a greater awareness of themselves and the world around them.

Our educational outcomes

Students will gain a greater understanding of how to act for a more sustainable future, at both local and global levels.

Students will be immersed in different cultures and experiences, growing to understand their role within our global community.

Students will be challenged to think critically about topical issues that affect our past, present and future around the world.

Measuring success

Students will be empowered to build on their self-care strategies, enhancing their physical and mental wellbeing.

Students will experience and reflect on the power of being pushed outside of their comfort zone, allowing the development of initiative, confidence, and resilience

Students will build a deeper connection to their own identity and personal values, developing their independence and sense of self.

We asked our trip leaders for feedback on the learning and growth experienced by students on their trips in 2022. Here’s what they reported:

Did students demonstrate consideration of responsible travel in their decisionmaking on trip?

Did students demonstrate recognition of learning through reflection on experiences outside of their comfort zone?

Did students demonstrate that they were comfortable using self-care strategies on the trip?

GIVING PEACE OF MIND YOU

We have a proven track record of giving our students, teachers, parents and schools the most secure financial and physical safety support available.

TRIP LEADER

Our experienced leaders offer you reassurance that students are fully supported while still taking responsibility for their trip. They are highly trained and passionate about impacting young people and forging bonds with both students and teachers.

SAFE DESTINATIONS

We’ll only travel to destinations deemed safe by official government advice. If, after booking, your planned destination becomes unsafe, we can provide an alternative at no extra cost.

YOUR DEDICATED POINT OF CONTACT

You will be assigned a personal World Challenge school relationship manager who will guide you through the predeparture programme and prepare you and your team for the trip.

STRONG FINANCIAL BACKING

World Challenge is part of Travelopia, the world’s largest collection of specialist travel brands. We benefit from its financial strength, global reach and operational experience.

OUR ACCREDITATIONS

These assurances sit alongside our long-standing in-country health and safety audits to ensure that our travellers are safeguarded in the very best ways possible.

SAFE SECURE TRIPS AND

PRE-RISK ASSESSED TRIPS

In a post-COVID-19 world safety has become more important than ever.

Our trips follow a set itinerary that has been risk-assessed to the highest standards. From pre-booked and audited transport to carefully selected accommodation and activities, you can rest easy – we’ve done all necessary work before departure to mitigate the risk of things going wrong in-country.

If anything unexpected comes up overseas our experienced ground teams and 24/7 operations centre will be on hand to assist. We have a dedicated team managing our operations centres in both hemispheres, utilising the best safety and risk management systems and processes available.

24 HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK

Our technologies integrate real-time government and private security advice that informs all our plans. We’ve built a unique auditing system to monitor the safety and professionalism of all our in-country partners, which continually screens all pre-booked transport, accommodation, and activities.

Together all these initiatives have resulted in the average number of incidents on our trips reducing by well over 50% since before COVID-19.

We’re dedicated to safety and risk management above all else.

KEEPING OUR TRAVELLERS SAFE

WE CARE PEOPLE AND PLANET ABOUT yranidroartxE

We measure, reduce and mitigate all of our emissions, including those from flights.

REFORESTATION

In addition to our climate mitigation planting, we plant five trees for every passenger who travels with us.

SINGLE-USE PLASTICS

We’ve eliminated single-use plastics from our operations and provide advice to travellers about how they can do the same.

ANIMAL WELFARE

Activities that involve interactions with animals on our trips are pre-approved against our animal welfare policy.

COMMUNITY INITIATIVES

Our initiatives provide authentic opportunities for community engagement. Through meaningful, hands-on and culturally immersive experiences, students can make a positive impact, bringing home greater humility and a sense of place in the world.

ETHICAL APPROACH

Initiatives focus on fostering global values and upholding a high standard of ethics.

POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION

Our community initiatives are carefully selected to enable young people to collaborate on programmes that make a lasting impact, long beyond the end of the visit.

CHILD WELFARE

We don’t visit orphanages and have a detailed child welfare policy.

We base our sustainable travel initiatives upon the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and work to support these through our travels.

The Sustainable Development Goals are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 for the year 2030

PREPARING FOR YOUR TRIP

As part of their pre-departure preparations, your students will have access to a mixture of both maximise educational outcomes. Students will arrive in-country ready to create a positive impact

The Development Journey is built around three key pillars. For each pillar we provide a number

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

Our Global Citizenship modules are a foundation of learning on prominent global issues. Students will be engaged to better understand topics that they will encounter on their trip, but also into the future, empowered with a baseline of knowledge that will allow them to make informed decisions about their behaviours from a global perspective.

PERSONAL

Our Personal Growth students challenge discover their sense the limits of their comfort beyond, and we reflect on these the moment.

both World Challenge-led meetings and student-led modules to impact for themselves and the global community.

number of online modules that students can run in team meetings.

PERSONAL GROWTH WELLBEING

Growth modules help challenge themselves to sense of self, exploring comfort zones and help students to these experiences in moment.

Our Wellbeing modules enable students to develop an awareness of what a healthy wellbeing means for them. They learn that there are simple, positive ways to help them cope and adjust to new or challenging situations.

We encourage you to empower the students to organise and run the modules themselves, although they will likely need your support in facilitating the discussions in each module. This guide details an overview of each module, what resources are required, as well as giving you some tips for facilitating the discussions.

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LAUNCHING YOUR TRIP

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BOOKING FORM

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YOUR TRIP

School name

School postcode

Destination

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Preferred departure airport*

Trip fee (per person)

Based on booking minimum of students

ARRIVAL DATE(S)**

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Team 1

Team 2

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SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

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STUDENT PRESENTATION (S)

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SCHOOL LEADER DETAILS

Main school leader

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Will this school leader be travelling? YES NO

* We will always try to secure flights from the school’s preferred departure airport, but this may not always be possible due to schedules, routings and cost. We will advise you of your actual departure airport when booking flights – please note that it is the School’s/Traveller’s responsibility to organise travel to and from the airport.

** The exact trip dates will be confirmed when we know how many teams will be travelling from the school and when flight schedules have been released (typically 10 months prior to the departure date range).

PARENT PRESENTATION

APPLICATION DEADLINE

Link for parents presentation meeting:

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

World Challenge’s main Terms and Conditions can be found here (the “Terms and Conditions”). Payment of the Initial Instalment and/or confirmation by return email shall be deemed acceptance by the school of both the Terms and Conditions and this Booking Form. The School confirms that in making such payment and/or agreeing this Booking Form, the person doing so has the necessary authority and power to agree to these terms and bind the School. A School may need to seek approval from other external bodies including local authorities and in such cases World Challenge will where reasonably possible cooperate with any reasonable requirements for additional information. The School agrees it shall bring the Terms and Conditions to every participant’s attention and that each participant must acknowledged and accept the Terms and Conditions to be able to join any trip.

World Challenge’s obligations to the School and each participant shall be as stated in the Terms and Conditions.

Because your school is located outside of the UK, section 1 of the Terms and Conditions do not apply to you booking.

SCHOOL LEADER POLICY

The School is obligated to appoint adult employees in accordance with our ratio requirements, to act as the school leaders (“School Leaders”) throughout the build up to, and during the Trip. Should the School not ensure sufficient School Leaders participate in the Trip then the School is responsible for all consequences of the same (including charges should the Trip be cancelled) and the School shall advise Participants of such. The School is at all times responsible for the acts or omissions of the School Leaders.

School Leaders must:

Support World Challenge with organisational elements such as; arrangements for the Discovery Meeting, Training Day and Build Up Day, checking participant medical records, and where necessary, team splits.

• Each hold a first aid certificate which is in date for the duration of the Trip and have completed any necessary World Challenge School Leader training modules before departure

• Be responsible for ensuring School policies are upheld and have overall responsibility for student behaviour, wellbeing and pastoral care

• Assist World Challenge Leaders/guides in managing the safety of the team, temporarily replacing the World Challenge leader/guide if they are out of action, or accompanying sick/injured students, even if this means missing parts of the itinerary

• Operate in accordance with all World Challenge policies, procedures, risk assessments and safety standards and the adult leader code of behaviour (here)

• The School/School Leaders are responsible for the cost of their own visas and vaccinations as well as any additional optional activities completed in country

TRAVELLING SCHOOL LEADER PLACES

World Challenge operates a minimum adult/student ratio of 1:8 and the group will always include a Leader appointed by World Challenge. World Challenge will fully fund the number of School Leaders required on top of the Leader to meet this ratio. Any additional arrangements regarding the number of funded School Leader places included in the trip fee should be detailed in this Booking Form. If an additional School Leader wishes to join the trip and is not entitled to a free place, a contribution will be required, as per the table below:

Any additional School Leaders will be charged the full-trip price at the time they are added to the Trip.

Any School Leader contributions will be calculated 60 days before departure with numbers of students calculated based solely on those who have, as at that date, paid all sums due and owing. An invoice will be sent to the school directly for payment.

If, despite minimum numbers not being met, a trip is authorised to continue by World Challenge then the number of ‘free’ school leaders shall be recalculated and any above that necessary for the above ratio to be met shall be required to pay a financial contribution (as determined by World Challenge) to participate in the trip.