School Trip Educational Experiences

Planning a School Trip or Educational Visit for your class or group we can provide many Educational Experiences! which can focus on all areas of the curriculum pre-school to A- level and Higher Education. UK School Trips has numerous Educational Experiences providing excellent high quality interactive learning experiences which can be tailored to your educational group’s needs. From Educational Tours, interactive hands-on Workshops to getting out of the classroom on an exciting Day Trip to an overnight Residential stay including many different activities, there is an exciting, fun and rewarding experience for everyone – regardless of age or ability.

Here at UK School Trips, we have some of the UK’s best School Trip providers listed on our website. From the English Heritage Group – a School Trip provider who has a wide variety of historic sites located across the country – to the RSPB – the perfect School Trip provider for any classes looking to discover nature and wildlife in close detail – you will not be disappointed by the selection we have here at UK School Trips. For educational groups looking for Residential School Trips, there is YHA – a Student Accommodation provider who has sites extending throughout the nation.

So, start searching our fantastic FREE educational directory and plan your term time educational visit today:

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Educational Attraction Ideas for Schools

SEA LIFE Loch Lomond

Sea Life Centre Loch Lomond provides educational groups and schools with hands on aquarium experiences. Workshops include learning about sea creature habits and understanding marine conservation due to issues such as plastic pollution.

National Science and Media Museum Bradford

At the National Science and Media Museum, your group will have the chance to explore the science of light and sound in Wonderlab, the history of photography in the Kodak Gallery, as well as our fantastic temporary exhibitions.

Science and Industry Museum

At the Science and Industry Museum Manchester discover ideas that change the world. From the factories of the Industrial Revolution, to computing and the creative industries and beyond. Providing a fully enriched learning experience for your students.

London Stadium Tours (Former Olympic Stadium)

The former Olympic Stadium in London that inspired world class athletes is now transformed into a fantastic multi-use venue. Pupils can tour the home team's changing room; the dugout; race on the indoor running track; and much more!

Kielder Observatory Astronomical Society STEM Science North East

Nestled in the Kielder Forest in Northumberland, Kielder Observatory brings the inspiration of the night skies to your school. This public astronomical observatory offers sessions suitable for all ages, ranging from KS1 up to A-Level.

Science Zone Bournemouth

The Science Zone offers interactive educational experiences, where students can explore life-sized dinosaurs and the Solar System. The variety of activities that are available ensures that all students will remain engaged and interested.

Winchester Science Centre and Planetarium Hampshire

If you’re looking for inspirational, educational and fun STEM learning experiences for your school, Winchester Science Centre has the lot! Visit the Science Centre with your group or let us bring the fun to your classroom!

South Downs Planetarium and Science Centre Chichester

The South Downs Planetarium and Science Centre was established to provide a facility where people of all ages could learn about science in a very visual and exciting way.

Legoland Discovery Centre Birmingham

Legoland Discovery Centre with Lego Education provide unique high quality learning experiences. We bring maths, science engineering and language to life and encourage skills in communication, collaboration, critical thinking and problem solving.

Xplore! Science Discovery Centre School Trip Wales

Xplore! Science Discovery Centre is where science lives in North Wales and beyond. Our exhibition floor is home to over 80 interactive exhibits that will engage and enthrall many school students on an educational day trip.

LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre Manchester

Science Museum London

A trip to the Science Museum will enhance your classroom teaching and bring to life the science, technology, engineering, and maths that has shaped our lives today. Suitable for all age groups, with interactive galleries, exhibitions, and even workshops.

National Railway Museum York

Bring learning to life with a visit to the National Railway Museum and discover inspiring objects and stories from the world’s largest railway collection. Experience engineering brilliance of the past, present and future of innovation on the railways.

We The Curious Science Centre

Bristol’s science centre is all about asking questions and testing things out, with two floors full of interactive exhibits, new experience Project What If and the UK’s first 3D Planetarium.

Educational Residential Experiences

Kingswood Overstrand Hall Residential Centre Norfolk

Captivating children's imaginations with the notion of living amongst royalty in this grand manor house. The perfect educational setting for a school visit.

New Forest Activities

Situated in the heart of Hampshire, New Forest Activities makes the perfect base for a school residential trip full of adventure. Spacious tents can host up to 80 students who then can choose activities around the area as well as water ones.

Lakeside YMCA Windermere

Lakeside YMCA is hidden within 100 acres of private woodland along the south western shores of Lake Windermere. It is one of the largest outdoor activity centres in Europe, delivering top quality outdoor learning for your students on school trips.

Kingswood Grosvenor Hall Activity Centre Kent

Accelerated learning by doing and the ultimate adventure activity experience; a chance to enhance education, put theory into practice and encourage independence, self-awareness and teamwork every day.

Thames Young Mariners Outdoor Education Centre Surrey

Thames Young Mariners is surrounded by 25 acres of public open space, which has been designated as a local nature reserve. Located near London, Thames Young Mariners is the ideal location for London borough schools and organisations to visit.

Aylmerton Outdoor Education Centre

Aylmerton Outdoor Education Centre Ltd are based near the National Trust estate of Felbrigg, Norwich with access to miles of open countryside and outstanding coastlines run by teachers that provide high quality outdoor learning experiences for students.

Plas Menai National Outdoor Residential Centre North Wales

For incredible outdoor adventure experiences head to Plas Menai National Outdoor Centre in Wales, that also offers full board accommodation in en-suite rooms, self catered units and bunkhouses for your school groups.

Nettlecombe Court Outdoor residential Centre Williton Somerset Field Studies Council

Nettlecombe Court Field Study Centre is located in a valley at the edge of Exmoor National Park. The country mansion is set within heritage parkland, ancient woodland and is near an SSSI due to its lichen communities, great for Conservation studies.

Benmore Outdoor Residential Centre Argyll

Benmore Outdoor Centre is located in the magnificent Benmore Botanic Garden. The scenic location and highly skilled, experienced team provide outstanding residential experince for school groups all year long.

Beaudesert Outdoor Residential Centre Staffordshire

Beaudesert Outdoor Residential Centre provides individual sleeping lodges as well as a tented village where students can camp and enjoy the outdoor environment.

Avon Tyrrell UK Youth Outdoor Activity Centre Hampshire Residential

Located in the New Forest National Park, Avon Tyrrell, the UK Youth Outdoor Activity Centre is an established site offering outdoor learning opportunities.

The Bioasis: Rewilding Residentials at a Classified Location

The year is 2074 and climate change has thrown our world into crisis. Your mission? Assemble your team and journey to The Bioasis. Reconnect with nature and prepare for an educational adventure like no other…

Suffolk Cabins Thornham Magma Outdoor Residential Centre Suffolk

Suffolk Cabins is a tranquil accommodation centre that is surrounded by the bucolic countryside of England, making the perfect setting for students to study in, as well as offering the ideal landscape for field studies for your educational group.

Ufton Court Educational Trust Residential School Trips

On an Ufton Court Residential School Trip, educational groups can enjoy historically themed evening banquets, where students will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the life and culture of the past or participate in many adventurous activities

Magdalen Farm Residential Education Centre Dorset

Magdalen Farm provides engaging, stimulating and exciting Residential School Trips, where students have the opportunity to learn through real outdoor adventures.

Rock UK Frontier Centre

Rock UK Frontier Centre in Northamptonshire is an outdoor adventure centre and is passionate about developing young students by bringing adventure into learning in the outdoors. The activities are offered all year round to schools and educational groups.

Kingswood Colomendy Residential Activity Centre Wales

With 130 acres of breathtaking habitat for students to explore, surrounded by rolling hills and natural woodland, Colomendy offers vast open spaces stretching into the distance.

Kingswood Peak Venture Centre Yorkshire Residential

On the doorstep of the Peak District, this centre offers a dramatic setting for outdoor adventure and education; set amongst wild heather moorlands and gentle limestone dales.

Menadue Residential Centre North Cornwall

Located on the coast of North Cornwall by Tintagel, Menadue is a Residential School Trip Activity Centre where educational groups can take part in a number of adventurous outdoor pursuits in a fantastic coastal countryside setting.

The Bushcraft Company Boughton Woods Northamptonshire

Whether your students cook over an open fire, build shelters to sleep in, or learn how to navigate through dense woodland, Residential School Trips at The Bushcraft Company have something for everyone, perfect for enrichment learning experiences.

Educational Attraction Ideas

Rock Up Hull Fun Climbing & Soft Play Centre

Rock Up provides students with endless fun, exciting interactive activities to experience that will test their mental & physical abilities in a team building environment with dozens of climbing walls at different levels of challenge like Clip 'n Climb.

Courthouse Museum Ripon North Yorkshire

The Courthouse is part of a fully interactive historical experience run by Ripon Museums Trust, your school group will learn many interesting facts about this 1800 century courthouse such as the Liberty of Ripon, plus step into the dock to be sentenced.

SEA LIFE Brighton

Sea Life Centre Brighton provides educational groups and schools with hands on aquarium experiences. Workshops include learning about sea creature habitats and understanding marine conservation due to issues such as plastic pollution.

Kingswood Isle of Wight Residential Centre

With stunning views over Whitecliff Bay and offering direct beach access, this 100-acre clifftop centre is a hit with students of all ages.

Imperial War Museum Duxford

Here at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, students can climb aboard historic aircrafts as well as visit the very rooms where Duxford’s Battle of Britain took place. This really is a historical School Trip like no other.

Tackt-Isle Adventures Isle of Wight

If your class is looking for an action-packed adventure, with stunning views and exhilarating activities, then look no further! Tackt-Isle Adventures provides wonderful School Trips, where students can try out exciting activities in a safe environment.

The World Outside Bodenham Arboretum

Offering curriculum linked activities on a working farm with in the beautiful surroundings of Bodenham Arboretum. All key stages catered for with experiential learning, developing inquisitive & positive relationships within the natural environment.

Crocodiles of the World Zoo Oxfordshire

Crocodiles of the World are the UK’s only crocodile zoo, with its largest crocodile collection and one of the best collections in Europe they provide excellent workshops for school trips and educational groups.

The Hive Residential Centre Essex

The Hive (Formerly Suntrap Forest Centre) is an environmental residential centre situated in Epping Forest on the edge of East London. It is perfect for residential school trips of 2-3 nights stay and outdoor residential experiences such as, camping.

Gravity Active Norwich Trampoline Adventure Park

A well-designed educational program at Gravity Active Norwich Trampoline Adventure Park enhances achievement across curriculum subjects. LOtC visits are tailored to your school's requirements.

Celtic Harmony Residential Camp

Celtic Harmony Camp, the UK’s largest Iron Age settlement, provides a program 1 and 2 night Prehistory Residential trips covering the Stone to Iron Age, primitive skills, and a unique sleepover in our authentically reconstructed Iron Age Roundhouses!

Rock Up Birmingham Fun Climbing & Soft Play Centre

Howletts Wild Animal Park Kent

Howletts Wild Animal Park, Kent's wildlife and animal park, houses some of the world's most endangered animals. A school trip here in Kent with your students guarantees exciting outdoor education for the whole class on an animal park school trip.

Kingswood Grosvenor Hall Residential Centre Kent

With stimulating environments, state of the-art facilities and highly qualified instructors, we can work with you to go beyond classroom teaching and textbook theory.

First Education and School Travel: All-Inclusive Residential Visits

First Education & School Travel is the UK’s leading school tour operator, providing all-inclusive residential school trip packages, including coach travel, accommodation, full board meals & activity programme from outdoor to educational.

Science & Dinosaur Digital Mobile Dome Nationwide

Science Dome offers a variety of shows for all age groups, including the Moon landings, a trip through the Solar System, Rocks and Soils, and Dinosaurs.

Escape Reality Escape Rooms Preston Lancashire

Experience the thrill of Preston's best escape room game at Escape Reality Escape Rooms. A perfect and exciting reward trip for your school group.

The Towers An Active Learning Centre Wales

The Towers Active Learning Centre is located in Snowdonia National Park, perfect for a residential outdoor adventure were you will explore and experience mountain expeditions, climbing and so many more outdoor activities for your students to enjoy.

Ninja Warrior UK Adventure Park Edinburgh

Ninja Warrior UK Edinburgh is inspired by ITV’s hit programme Ninja Warrior UK and here you can climb, balance, jump and swing across different obstacles using your Ninja skills. For the perfect adventure day trip, book now!

Mill on the Brue Outdoor Activity Centre Somerset

The award winning Centre based in 25 acres of beautiful woods, fields & river valley aim to give the best outdoor experience you have ever had with many exciting, fun and challenging outdoor pursuits and a strong emphasis on team work and the environment.

Educational Tour Experiences for schools

Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre

At The Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, school groups can explore the historic site of the Battle of Bosworth - an event beyond living memory which is of national and global significance.

Carlisle Castle Cumbria

An impressive frontier fortress with 900 years of history – excellent for Medieval, Tudor and Civil War topics. Carlisle Castle provides students with a sense of how the site has changed over time and what life was like for the people who lived here.

KidZania London: The Indoor City for Children

Designed for children aged 4-14, KidZania blends learning and reality with entertainment. During a four-hour experience, children can independently choose from a number of real-life activities and test their skills in a variety of professions.

University of Leeds Outdoor Centre Lake District National Park Dale Head

Situated in the less frequented Duddon Valley in the south west corner of the Lake District National Park ideal for self programming groups wanting to organise a wide variety of educational and outdoor activities.

The Bushcraft Company Penshurst Place Kent

Skern Lodge Outdoor Learning and Development North Devon

Skern Lodge is one of the leading providers of outdoor learning and development in the UK. Offering a wide range of adventurous outdoor activities and geography fieldwork opportunities from its Centre on the North Devon coast.

English Heritage Yorkshire

We aim to promote a greater understanding & enjoyment of the historic environment. We offer learning groups FREE ENTRY to 400 + venues, along with free planning visits, property information, useful online resources, and educational facilities.

National Justice Museum Education Royal Courts of Justice London

At The National Justice Museum Royal Courts of Justice, London our inspirational educational visits use authentic courtrooms, museum spaces, objects and archives to help pupils gain a practical understanding of the law and justice system.

Blencathra Outdoor Residential Centre Keswick Lake District Field Studies Council

Blencathra Outdoor Residential Field Study’s Centre is located in the Lake District National Park surrounded by an idyllic 360 panoramic view 300mtrs up a hillside. They can tailor make courses to suit your students key-stage educational needs.

Lakeside YMCA Windermere

Pinkery Outdoor Residential Learning Centre Exmoor

Pinkery is Exmoor National Park’s centre for Outdoor Learning. Built as an upland farmhouse, the original building has been expanded to create a unique moorland residential centre.

Imperial War Museum London

The IWM London provides students with an historical experience that cannot be found anywhere else. From exploring the causes of war to understanding the impact conflict has had on individual lives, this museum will offer students a unique insight.

Prison & Police Museum Ripon North Yorkshire

At the Prison & Police Museum Ripon discover the history of crime & punishment in the Victorian prison, learn the history of policing in Yorkshire from the Anglo-Saxons to the formation of professional policing, perfect historical interactive experience.

London Stadium Tours (Former Olympic Stadium)

The National Justice Museum Nottingham

At the The National Justice Museum Nottingham our inspirational educational visits use authentic courtrooms, museum spaces, objects and archives to help pupils gain a practical understanding of the law and justice system.

Pooles Cavern & Country Park

Discover the largest stalactite and stalagmite in the Peak District and learn how water has eroded this vast series of chambers over millions of years, which then lined the cavern with incredible calcite crystal formations.

Immersive Experiences Mobile Planetarium School Workshops Nationwide

Immersive Experiences is the UK's multi-award-winning immersive learning/entertainment outreach provider, reaching a record breaking 200,000 people a year.

Manchester City Stadium Educational Tours

Students can experience and walk through the home of Manchester City Football team with the help of a professional guide on an educational tour. These tours are aligned to the English National Curriculum including subject areas maths,english and history.

Yorks Chocolate Story

York’s Chocolate Story delivers wonderful educational tours, where your students will be given the chance to explore the origins of chocolate, learn how to taste chocolate like an expert, and even have a go on our chocolate making station!

Rydal Hall Bunkhouse Ambleside Cumbria

Rydal Hall Estate in Cumbria offers educational group bunkhouse style accommodation that sleeps 28 with two en-suite-dorms. Located in the heart of the fells between Ambleside and Grasmere, perfect for outdoor pursuits, walking, cycling and field studies.

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