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Located between Norwich and the North Norfolk coast, The Horstead Residential Centre is an outdoor education and adventure Centre for children and young people. The centre delivers bespoke residential and activity day experiences and provides a range of exciting activities and hands-on learning. With full board or self-catering options, the residential centre can accept groups up to 65 students.

Situated on the beautiful Hampshire coast, Stubbington Study Centre offers a wide range of exciting outdoor learning opportunities with environmental,  team building and educational themes.  Stubbington is the perfect venue for school residentials, reward trips ans also educational group experiences and much more.  With a variety of habitats for wildlife, huge play areas and only a five minute walk to the beach, a visit to Stubbington Study Centre will make school trips unforgettable again. (Group sizes for up to 112 children)

The Conway Centre Anglesey is ideally located within 169 acres of National Trust Parkland, providing educational groups with active enrichment school residential activity experiences in the wild outdoors. The Centre accommodates up to 380 students and 55 staff, all in standard dormitory-style accommodation.

First Education and School Travel is one of the UK’s leading school tour operators, providing all-inclusive residential school trip packages, including return coach travel, accommodation, full board meals & activity programmes. The whole school trip package! They offer an all-inclusive range of residential trips with a wide variety of themes, from exciting outdoor adventure challenges, to educational City Culture tours, STEM programmes and curricular linked activities in geography, history and drama. Group sizes vary from between 20 pupils + staff – up to around 100 pupils + staff.

Coldharbour Mill Working Wool Museum Devon provides a mixture of workshops on the textile industry, with working machinery in action to give a flavour of sights, smells & sounds of a working woollen mill thruogh the Victorian age. We give an overview of the whole process of the industry, from sheep to finished fabrics. Coldharbour Mill provides an excellent resource on a number of educational levels, from  KS1 to  KS3 history.

Outward Bound utilises the power of learning and adventure to unleash a students true potential; with a large range of thrilling activities, the pupils will be constantly engaged and excited, making Outward Bound the perfect destination for school trips.

Whether you're seeking exciting adventures or curriculum-based outdoor learning, Ferry Meadows Outdoor Education Centre Cambridgshire offers a variety of engaging experiences. Students from all key stages can take on exciting challenges, develop new skills, and immerse themselves in nature, making for a fun, educational and unforgettable school trip.

The Hive Environmental Centre Essex provides students of all ages with environmental education interlinked to the National Curriculum to support classroom-based learning through practical real-word outdoor experiences in nature, science and climate change. At The Hive our environmental education offer aligns with the National Curriculum and supports classroom-based learning for all Key stages through practical real-word experiences. 

Rock UK Whithaugh Park is situated in the unspoilt landscape of the Scottish Borders, Liddesdale in Scotland is an incredible outdoor residential adventure centre offering a wide range of outdoor and indoor activities all year round to schools and educational groups. (groups sizes 4 to 192)

Cuffley Woods in Hertfordshire offers immersive and exciting outdoor learning experiences for school groups, including shelter-building, fire-lighting, all kinds of crafts or archery. The Bushcraft Company is a leading provider of outdoor adventure education, providing Year 3 to Year 8 students the opportunity of a memorable and real outdoor adventure. The learning is curriculum-linked, meaning you can choose the theme, and they’ll align it with your curriculum. Cuffley Woods offers fully catered residential school trips with group sizes ranging from 25 to 300.  

Located on the scenic border of Dorset and Somerset, the Magdalen Farm Environmental Centre offers immersive, hands-on day trips across its 132 acres of organic farmland and diverse nature reserves. These visits allow students and groups to engage directly with sustainable agriculture through activities like feeding farm animals, harvesting organic vegetables, and learning about the journey of food from soil to plate. The centre provides a wide array of curriculum-linked programs, ranging from "Survival in the Wild" bushcraft sessions to scientific "river dipping" studies where participants can wade into the shallow River Axe to examine local biodiversity. Sustainability is woven into every experience, often culminating in eco-cooking sessions using outdoor cob ovens and fresh ingredients gathered directly from the sprawling kitchen gardens. Furthermore, Magdalen Farm is widely recognized for its inclusive environment, offering SEN-friendly facilities and specialized staff to ensure that learners of all abilities can safely explore and connect with the natural world.

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. (Group sizes 25 to 300)

Butser Ancient Farm Hampshire is a world leading museum for experimental archaeology education, bringing the past to life through hands on reconstructions of prehistoric, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon structures, through immersive, practical activities for students. Your students will experience four hands-on activities of your choice, tailored to suit the period of history your school groups are currently studying and run in and around the historic setting of our buildings

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. (Group sizes 25 to 300).

Celtic Harmony Camp, the UK’s largest Iron Age settlement, provides a program of Prehistory Residential and Day trips covering Stone, Bronze and Iron Age Britain. Immerse your class in Ancient Britain with hands-on outdoor experiential learning!

By visiting Hautbois Activity Centre in Norfolk on a school trip you can put some fun into the National Curriculum - all our activities encourage healthy living and help make exercise more exciting for your students to experience many fun and challenging outdoor pursuit adventures. All our activities are linked to specific sections of the curriculum. Group accommodation 6 to 200 plus, we also offer a full range of catering options to meet all dietary needs.