TES Connect, has set up a forum specifically for school trips. The forum is designed to help Educational Visits Co-ordinators (EVCs) and anybody organising a school trip find the best destinations.
 
So if you’ve been on a great trip, why not head over to the School Trips forum and let us know all about it.  The success of the forum will rely on you guys letting us know about the successful trips you've organised and why they worked so well. We hope that over time the forum will build into a valuable resource for anybody looking to organise a school trip.
 
School trip resources on TES Connect

Our Resource Bank also holds some useful background material on school trips - check out the school trips section.

You might also find the following links useful when planning a visit:
· Forms - Model forms including risk assessment plans, consent forms and evaluation forms
· Policies - Exemplar school visits policies
· SOW - Scheme of work for visiting a museum, gallery or site
· H&R - Health and safety guidance
 
More about TES Connect
 
Used by thousands of schools and colleges, with over 700,000 registered users and over 1.3 million monthly visitors (March 2009), TES Connect is the central focus for the UK teaching community to share their ideas, thoughts and views outside the staffroom.
 
Split into four user-friendly sections including jobs, community, resources and My TES, the site gives teachers access to tools that have the potential to transform lesson planning and the quality of lessons taught.
 
1.Community : The world’s largest online social network for teachers where they can share advice and discuss a range of issues on the forums.
 
2.Resources : The TES Connect Resources section is home to a vast library of teaching resources all created and uploaded by other teachers in the TES community for everyone to share. With separate subject channels for every type of teacher, there are all kinds of classroom materials including lesson plans, videos, PowerPoints, games, puzzles, worksheets and tutorials. With over 29,000 resources already on the site, hundreds are uploaded by the community every week.
 
3.Jobs : The UK’s leading online recruitment resource for schools and colleges looking to find new teaching and support staff. Visitors to the jobs section can browse by position, subject, workplace and by location and build customised job alerts so when that perfect new job vacancy appears it is sent to them.
 
4.The Paper : All the print articles from the Times Educational Supplement appear on the site the day they’re published.