Ecology & Green Awareness

Explore four themed villages in acres of beautiful woodland and meadow. Climb towers, crawl through tunnels, step inside one of the largest indoor play arenas in London. And all while coming face-to-face with many exotic and traditional farm animals. There are a variety of options available for schools, tailored to early years learning, as well as Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 of the National Schools Curriculum.

Magdalen Farm Residential Environmental Centre Dorset offers a unique 132-acre organic landscape where students can connect with nature through hands-on farming, river dipping, and woodland adventures. The site provides high-quality, flexible accommodation and delicious home-cooked meals made with fresh ingredients sourced directly from their own kitchen gardens. Their experienced teaching staff design bespoke programs that build student confidence, resilience, and teamwork through immersive outdoor learning. Additionally, the farm is highly inclusive, offering specialized facilities and activities tailored to support children with special educational needs (SEN)

Bickley Hall Farm (Wildlife trust) provides fantastic opportunities for outdoor learning and compliments the National Curriculum, Our delivery staff are experienced environmental educators who are ready for your educational group.

Standon Bowers Outdoor Education Centre in Staffordshire provides school groups with tailored outdoor learning programmes with the chance to explore the outdoors on residentials school trips. These programmes ensure students spend time outdoors, helping them to improve their mental and physical wellbeing while enjoying exciting adventure activities such as archery, bushcraft or water sports.

Rhyd-y-creuau field study centre is set in the Snowdonia National Park with wooded valleys, rocky shores and beaches to explore. Your students can enjoy outdoor activities such as hiking, biodiversity garden, campfire area and teambuilding challenges.

Located alongside the River Severn, WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre provides unique opportunities for students and school groups of all ages and abilities to interact with birds and other wildlife. With a wide range of resources available to support curriculum work, a visit to WWT will create the perfect reward and educational trip for your school group.

Red Rock outdoor residential centre Exmouth offers multi activity residential adventure experiences including water sports with overnight village camping accommodation providing a perfect place for a memorable residential school trip. Offering quality accommodation (max size 250) for educational groups at affordable prices with experienced instructors with safety as a priority.

The Wilderness Centre Forest of Dean Gloucestershire offers residential and activity packages for school groups. The aim of The Wilderness Centre is to give schools the ultimate outdoor experience & leave all who visit with the knowledge and confidence to safely enjoy the outdoors. A residential stay here means affordable and comfortable accommodation for residential school trips. It offers both fully catered and self catering options are available. (Group sizes up to 100).

West Midlands Safari and Leisure Park Bewdley offers curriculum-linked hands-on activities in a purpose-built Safari Academy for schools. The education team has 40 years’ experience of many species of animals welfare and conservation issues.

Staunton Country Park in Hampshire offers a wide range of funny and exciting outdoor and indoor experiences for school trips. With a rare breeds farm, the south coast's largest ornamental glasshouses, beautiful gardens and 1,000 acres of country park to explore there's something for every pupil to discover. At Staunton Farm students can feed farm animals, enjoy outdoor and indoor play areas, making this place a perfect venue and reward trip for school and educational group experiences.

JCA School Activity Trips Condover Hall Activity Centre offers the ideal combination of exciting and wide range of outdoor and indoor adventurous activities for your school trip. Near Shrewsbury in the West Midlands, Condover Hall boasts a range of facilities and innovative activities, including aerial trek, rope courses, water sports or zip lining to your students. JCA knows how to create educational and memorable school trips.

English Heritage should be applauded for their development of the Discovery Visit, which interprets the story of a site, giving a sense of time and place to visiting schools. These experiences support the National Curriculum across a wide range of subjects and all key stages. These workshops are linked to the National Curriculum and suit a wide range of learning styles - encouraging active participation, introducing new vocabulary, and developing enquiry skills.

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. 

Ghyll Head Residential Outdoor Education and Activity Centre is located in the heart of the Lake District National Park, Cumbria and provides enrichment and adventure activity courses for schools and educational groups.  Students will experience authentic outdoor adventure and team building activities lead by highly experienced instructors.  Group accommodation from a minimum of 12 and up to 72 for activity courses. Various catering options available.

National Forest Adventure Farm provides adventurous school trips that are aimed at younger students. Here, your pupils will enjoy an inspirational experience which is not only educational but also fun! Amazing Animals workshop tailored to EYFS, KS1 and KS2.

The Web Adventure Park York in North Yorkshire is a fantastic attraction for all school ages whatever the weather is, with a huge indoor and outdoor play centre.  From climbing and park area, children's ride-on to animals, rides, your students will never get bored on a fantastic day trip to Web Adventure Park.