Educational Tours

Barley Hall is a medieval townhouse – once home to the Lord Mayor of York. Located on the doorstep of York Minster, the building has been restored to its former glory.

At The Golden Hinde, our expert education facilitators make history come to life. This historical school trip allows students to experience what life was really like on an Elizabethan Galleon.

UKSA enjoys a waterfront location in Cowes on the sunny Isle of Wight and is the perfect location for residential and non-residential water-sports and team building school trips for students from 8 years upwards.

English Heritage Yorkshire aim to promote a greater understanding & enjoyment of the historic environment. Offering learning groups FREE ENTRY to 400 + venues, along with free planning visits, property information, useful online resources, and educational facilities. These experiences support the National Curriculum across a wide range of subjects and all key stages.

Join us at DIG and explore our four special in-door excavation pits, all based on real-life digs in the city of York and filled with replica Roman, Viking, Medieval, and Victorian finds. Students can grab a trowel and explore how people lived in the past on this amazing hands-on school trip experience, where history comes to life.

Bristol Museums offer a wide range of school trips, where subjects such as history, literature, science and art are brought to life! Students will have the opportunity to explore their creativity and imagination in a unique learning environment.

The only educational walking tours in York specifically aimed at school groups KS1 & 2, and winner of many awards including Best Tour four years running. Fun, magic and a dash of York’s history combine to create a truly unforgettable wizard experience on your school days out.

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).

At The Workhouse Museum Ripon North Yorkshire, educational groups can experience an authentic Victorian Schoolroom, Kitchen, and Garden, as well as the historical Inmates' Quarters of the Workhouse. Our learning programme can accommodate groups from Key Stage 1 through to University Level, exploring the themes of poverty, crime, and punishment.

Here at Wildheart Animal Sanctuary, your class will experience unique learning sessions where students can study all areas of the curriculum, whether its biological sciences or our award-winning conservation work.

Set within 44-acres of beautiful, ancient woodland on the Berkshire/Hampshire border, Ufton Court is a children’s experiential education charity and one of the South East's leading providers of history and outdoor learning programmes for UK school trips. Ufton Court provides a wide range of curriculum-linked history trips and outdoor learning programmes for school groups that spark curiosity and create memories that last and also offers a programme tailored to the needs of the specific group of pupils.

The Holocaust Centre North Exhibition and Learning enrichment museum located in Huddersfield provides and preserves the memories, records and legacies of Holocaust survivors living in Yorkshire. Here, students can discover the story of the Holocaust in a unique and engaging way.

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.

A visit to Shakespeare’s Schoolroom & Guildhall provides school groups with fun, informal and authentic experiences that bring history to life.

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

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.