Educational Tours

The School Travel Company is a trusted school trips specialist tour operator with whom you can choose from ready-made itineraries that bring learning to life beyond the classroom. The school trips span the UK, Europe, India and North America, giving you the flexibility to choose destinations that match your pupils’ learning goals.

Our educational experiences provide both learning and enrichment opportunities for students, with each visit including a 45-minute workshop and a 75-minute stadium tour.

We offer outdoor challenges, combining personal and social development with an understanding and respect for the natural environment.

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 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. These experiences support the National Curriculum across a wide range of subjects and all key stages.

Mount Cook Outdoor Residential Adventure Centre in the Peak District Derbyshire, offers schools and educational groups a wide-range of adventure enrichment activities in the great outdoors with many years of experience and highly trained instructors. Accommodation consists of 140 beds across 35 bedrooms with ensuite shower room, plus glamping pods to sleep 40. (Group sizes up to 180)

Wight Karting, Isle of Wight, is where young people build confidence, enjoy adrenaline-fueled motor sport and gain driving skills that serve them for life. Wight Karting tailors each package to the needs of the age group and visit purpose - from educational learning about the speed, momentum and mechanical aspects of racing, to those wanting a reward outing and team building outcomes.

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 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. Our learning programme can accommodate groups from Key Stage 1 through to university level.

Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre in Nuneaton Leicestershire provides a learning opportunity for all school ages. With interactive and engaging sessions for schools and colleges, the Centre takes pupils on a journey through time. Set in beautiful countryside, a wide range of activities that brings this historic battle back to life. Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre provides a fun and interesting environment for children of all ages, creating the perfect school reward trip.

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.

iSurf Watersports Isle of Wight is committed to encourage more young people to get involved in surf and SUP activities on the Isle of Wight. A great school day trip to increase awareness and develop a greater level of appreciation of the beach ecology.

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.

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).

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. Max Group size of 120 (10 groups) Fully Catered options.

Set in 22 acres of stunning North Devon countryside, overlooking the Taw and Torridge estuary, Skern Adventure Appledore offers exceptional residential and day experiences for schools and youth groups. For 50 years, we’ve been helping young people build confidence, teamwork and resilience through outdoor adventure and hands-on learning. Group size up to max 260 that includes fully catered accommodation.

Tudor World is an award winning museum situated right in the heart of the historic town, Stratford upon Avon. Within a Grade 2* listed historic building, the museum depicts the different aspects of Tudor life from plague to punishment. Each school is unique and the guides tailor their performance to each school. There are workshops on the Army, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Tours of the Town (Anne or William Shakespeare themed guide), and the favourite of the children – Crime and Punishment.