Educational Attractions for Schools

Educational Attractions provide school groups with fun learning experiences that are both academically focussed and highly enjoyable. By applying an engaging learning approach, Educational Attractions inspire and motivate students to take a greater interest in their studies. Whether your class is studying history, STEM, conservation, drama, or even science, there is an Educational Attraction for all areas of the National Curriculum.

Educational Attractions serve pupils of all ages, from nursery to university. For younger classes, we have a great variety of age-suitable School Trips listed on our website. From the Pierrepont Farm in Surrey and the Legoland Discovery Centres, to the RSPB Nature Reserves and Blue Reef Aquariums, there are numerous Educational Attractions listed on UK School Trips that are designed to engage and academically stimulate younger audiences. But younger pupils are not the only age group Educational Attractions are catered for. There are plenty of Educational Attractions designed for older students to enjoy. There is the Bioasis, the Imperial War Museums, the National Science and Media Museum Bradford, and many Residential Centres that deliver physically challenging school trip attraction experiences.

With hundreds of Educational Attractions listed on our website, UK School Trips can help you find the perfect School Trip experience for your age group, location, and budget requirements - so that you can plan and book your educational attraction experience!

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Primary Educational Attractions for 5 to 7 year olds

Barley Hall York

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.

Cadbury World Birmingham

Cadbury World in the West Midlands offers a unique experience that gives a fascinating insight into the rich heritage of the nation’s favourite chocolate. Your visit will take around 4.5 hours. This includes an educational talk or workshop (optional).

Prison & Police Museum Ripon North Yorkshire

At the Prison & Police Museum Ripon discover the history of crime & punishment in the Victorian prison, learn the history of policing in Yorkshire from the Anglo-Saxons to the formation of professional policing, perfect historical interactive experience.

English Heritage East of England

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

The Bushcraft Company Blenheim Woods Oxfordshire

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.

Roman Baths

The Roman Baths located in the city of Bath in Somerset, comprise of the remains of one of the greatest religious spas of the ancient world. The new Roman Baths clore learning centre is designed to bring pupils of all abilities closer to history.

Pooles Cavern & Country Park

Discover the largest stalactite and stalagmite in the Peak District and learn how water has eroded this vast series of chambers over millions of years, which then lined the cavern with incredible calcite crystal formations.

The Golden Hinde School Tours and workshops London

At The Golden Hinde, the use of costumed educators and reenactments makes history come to life. This historical school trip allows students to experience what life was really like on an Elizabethan Galleon.

York City Cruise Boat Tours

York City Cruise provides schools with the chance to experience river boat tours with entertaining and informative trips along the River Ouse, discover fascinating historical roman and Viking facts from your seat on the top deck.

The Shakespeare Family Homes

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is an independent, educational charity dedicated to deepening the understanding of Shakespeare’s works & times. We offer a range of informative & inspiring tours to bring Shakespeare to life for all key stages.

School Trips at Bristol Museums

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.

Tudor World in Shakespeare’s Stratford upon Avon

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.

First Education and School Travel: All-Inclusive Residential Visits

First Education & School Travel is the UK’s leading school tour operator, providing all-inclusive residential school trip packages, including coach travel, accommodation, full board meals & activity programme from outdoor to educational.

Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre

At The Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, school groups can explore the historic site of the Battle of Bosworth - an event beyond living memory which is of national and global significance.

English Heritage East Midlands

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.

Bath Open Top Bus Tours

Bath Bus Company provide an efficient and informative way to explore the city of Bath, offering customers recorded commentary in a variety of languages.

Carlisle Castle Cumbria

An impressive frontier fortress with 900 years of history – excellent for Medieval, Tudor and Civil War topics. Carlisle Castle provides students with a sense of how the site has changed over time and what life was like for the people who lived here.

Yorks Chocolate Story

York’s Chocolate Story delivers wonderful educational tours, where your students will be given the chance to explore the origins of chocolate, learn how to taste chocolate like an expert, and even have a go on our chocolate making station!

English Heritage Yorkshire

Carymoor Environmental Education Centre Somerset

Carymoor Environmental Trust provides inspirational outdoor learning. Our nature reserve has a wide variety of habitats to explore and our unique location next to a working landfill site makes Carymoor the perfect place to bring green issues to life.

Southchurch Hall Museum Essex

Southchurch Hall museum is housed in the half-timbered medieval manor house, which dates to the early 14th century.

Skern Lodge Outdoor Learning and Development North Devon

Skern Lodge is one of the leading providers of outdoor learning and development in the UK. Offering a wide range of adventurous outdoor activities and geography fieldwork opportunities from its Centre on the North Devon coast.

Canterbury Guided Tours - City walking tours for schools

Canterbury Guided Tours provide entertaining 90-minute interactive educational city walking tours for groups; an ideal opportunity to experience outdoor learning whilst enjoying the rich history of life past and present in the historic city of Canterbury.

Kenilworth Castle & Elizabethan Garden Warwickshire

Kenilworth Castle & Elizabethan Gardens provides school trips & educational visits with great tours, exhibitions & interactive workshops, explore the Tudor gardens, medieval kitchens, great hall & Caslte or walk around the almost complete outer walls.

Blackpool Pleasure Beach

Enjoy a thrilling educational or end of term treat day out at one of the UK's favourite theme parks, Blackpool Pleasure Beach has its own dedicated Education Academy.

Heights of Abraham Cable Cars, Caverns & Hilltop Park Derbyshire

Heights of Abraham Derbyshire provide schools and educational groups with a unique memorable outdoor experience from cable car journeys to historical hilltop guided tours to underground caverns and hands on workshops in the woodland corner.

DIG: An Archaeological Adventure York

With four special in-door excavation pits, all based on real-life digs in the city and filled with replica Roman, Viking, Medieval, and Victorian finds, children can grab a trowel and explore how people lived in the past.

English Heritage North West

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.

Country Experiences Ltd Cumbria

We are a small independent provider based in the Lake district in Cumbria who specialize in providing: Duke of Edinburgh Expeditions, John Muir Awards (conservation), and accreditation with National Governing body awards (BCU, MLTB, RYA, Archery GB).

The Workhouse Museum Ripon North Yorkshire

At The Workhouse Museum, educational groups can experience an authentic Victorian Schoolroom, Kitchen, and Garden, as well as the historical Inmates' Quarters of the Workhouse.

Secondary Educational Attractions for 11 to 13 year olds

Thames Young Mariners Outdoor Education Centre Surrey

Thames Young Mariners is surrounded by 25 acres of public open space, which has been designated as a local nature reserve. Located near London, Thames Young Mariners is the ideal location for London borough schools and organisations to visit.

Southchurch Hall Museum Essex

Southchurch Hall museum is housed in the half-timbered medieval manor house, which dates to the early 14th century.

Go Ape Alexandra Palace London Zip Lining & High Ropes 34 Sites Nationwide

Go Ape Alexandra Palace offers bespoke outdoor recreational exhilarating activities like zip lining, high ropes and nets adventure in the tree-tops and on the ground; it will provide students with a thrilling and unforgettable school trip experience.

Reel Cinemas Port Talbot

We offer our cinemas out for school or group bookings to show current releases, a requested film or as a space for presentation purposes. We can source most films whether the visit is a treat or for educational purposes. We also cater for SEN schools.

Celtic Harmony Camp, Outdoor Prehistory Centre

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!

Ninja Warrior UK Adventure Park Edinburgh

Ninja Warrior UK Edinburgh is inspired by ITV’s hit programme Ninja Warrior UK and here you can climb, balance, jump and swing across different obstacles using your Ninja skills. For the perfect adventure day trip, book now!

Tapnell Farm Residential Centre Isle of Wight

Tapnell Farm residential activity centre on the Isle of Wight the perfect place to get away with your school students. From luxury safari tents and eco pods to Tapnell Manor, this place can cater for all school group sizes.

Clip 'n Climb Bristol

Clip n Climb Bristol is a fantastic experience that balances fun with learning, physical exercise & dexterity coupled with cognitive learning & team work. The students are connected onto an auto-belay & then able to work out how to climb up the routes.

Lee Valley VeloPark Olympic Park London

Lee Valley VeloPark was the home of London 2012 Games track cycling and is the only UK destination to offer four disciplines of cycling in one location. Give your students the chance to embrace a legacy and ride on the same track as Team GB athletes.

Lullingstone Roman Villa

One of the most important and complete Roman villas in Britain. It is home to some outstanding mosaics and an extensive range of collections and activities for learning.

Gravity Active Birmingham Trampoline Adventure Park

Gravity Active Birmingham Trampoline Adventure Park is a great family day out in to exercise or have fun with members of your school groups. Feel the rush of oxygen as you experience the force of Gravity!

Adam Henson's Cotswold Farm Park Cheltenham

Cotswold Farms Park offers students hands on fun educational outdoor learning experiences from pre-school, to university. Activities can be tailored to cover topics such as conservation, bushcraft, rare breed animals to farm safari and Jurassic digs

Gulliver’s World Resort Cheshire

Gulliver’s World Resort provides students with unique school trip experiences, where they can engage in a wide variety of different topics, whether it be discovering the history of dinosaurs or learning about theme park design.

Nettlecombe Court Outdoor residential Centre Williton Somerset Field Studies Council

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.

Escape Hunt Immersive Escape Room Bristol

Think of Escape Hunt Immersive Escape Room Bristol as the closest students are likely to get to starring in a brilliantly plotted escape movie. Your students can get locked in a themed room and have to find and solve a series of clues in order to escape.

Gulliver’s Kingdom Resort Derbyshire

Gulliver’s Kingdom Resort offers fun and engaging school trips, where students can take part in educational workshops and also enjoy themselves within the theme park.

Rock Up Hull Fun Climbing & Soft Play Centre

Rock Up provides students with endless fun, exciting interactive activities to experience that will test their mental & physical abilities in a team building environment with dozens of climbing walls at different levels of challenge like Clip 'n Climb.

The Lost City Adventure Golf Belfast

At Lost City Adventure Golf, students have the opportunity to take part in one of two rainforest-themed indoor adventure golf courses. Adventure golf allows students to take part in a physically challenging school trip and still enjoy themselves.

Sherlock The Official Live Game Immersive Experience London

Students on a school trip will enter into the world of Sherlock with immersive sets and environments from the show, as you work together as a team to solve mysteries and puzzles before time runs out. Perfect for a fun interactive reward trip in London

Yorks Chocolate Story

Xplore! Science Discovery Centre School Trip Wales

Xplore! Science Discovery Centre is where science lives in North Wales and beyond. Our exhibition floor is home to over 80 interactive exhibits that will engage and enthrall many school students on an educational day trip.

Nuclear High Ropes Tree Top Adventure Essex

We are the only high ropes journey course in Essex. We cater for children from the age of 6, but we recommend our ropes course for School Year 5 and over.

Wild Pines Park Lincolnshire

Wild Pines Park activity centre Lincolnshire is situated in a 9-acre woodland in Market Rasen, programmes are designed for your school’s needs. Outdoor pursuits for students include rope courses, archery, treasure hunts, bear hunt and den building.

The Workhouse Museum Ripon North Yorkshire

At The Workhouse Museum, educational groups can experience an authentic Victorian Schoolroom, Kitchen, and Garden, as well as the historical Inmates' Quarters of the Workhouse.

Paradise Island Adventure Golf Manchester

If you're looking to unleash the competitive side of your students', then Paradise Island Adventure Golf is the place for you! Here, students will have the chance to try out fun golfing activities which inspire friendly competition.

Kingswood Grosvenor Hall Activity Centre Kent

Accelerated learning by doing and the ultimate adventure activity experience; a chance to enhance education, put theory into practice and encourage independence, self-awareness and teamwork every day.

Hobbledown Themed Adventure Activity Park and Zoo Epsom

Hobbledown offers pupils many interactive activities come face to face with farm and zoo animals to costumed characters in adventure play areas to a willow maze, jumping pillows, underground tunnels, storytelling sessions and singalongs. Plus so much more

Science & Dinosaur Digital Mobile Dome Nationwide

Science Dome offers a variety of shows for all age groups, including the Moon landings, a trip through the Solar System, Rocks and Soils, and Dinosaurs.

Coventry Cathedral School Trips Education Tours and Events

Coventry Cathedral is an international tourism hotspot, with striking twentieth century architecture, it attracts many schools every year, educating students with its Cathedral school's team, utilising different techniques and learning experiences.

The Ice Cream Farm Tattenhall Play Attraction Cheshire

The Ice Cream Farm is one of Cheshire's main and the UK’s only ice cream-themed attraction, bringing together the world's largest ice cream shop and indoor and outdoor play attractions for your school students.

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Volcano Falls Xscape Adventure Golf Milton Keynes

Volcano Falls Xscape Adventure Golf in Milton Keynes is great fun for all school ages. If you're looking to play some fun and entertaining golf and have a bite to eat then look no further. Let's make school day trips exciting again!

The Ice Cream Farm Tattenhall Play Attraction Cheshire

Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Yorkshire Wildlife Park is a fantastic place to experience a truly breathtaking scenery while on an educational experience with students of all ages. Explore, learn and have fun while learning about animals.

Smugglers Adventure Day Trip Museum Hastings East Sussex

Smugglers Adventure in Hastings provides an opportunity for your students to take a journey back in time to uncover the deep and dark secrets of the smugglers. A school day trip like it can provide educational material for pupils of all key stages.

Game Over Escape Rooms Liverpool

If you dare, come to Game Over Escape Rooms Liverpool and take on the challenge with your school mates. Every clue is crucial, every second counts, so this will be one exciting school day out!

Game Over Escape Rooms Derby

At Game Over Escape Rooms Derby you are trapped in a room for one hour with your school mates It’s full of riddles, hidden mysteries and forgotten stories. Can you find the clues and escape the room on your school day out?

Break Free Escape Room Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria

Break Free Escape Room Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria offers a premium escape room experience for school students with 4 great scenarios to choose from, resulting in a truly unforgettable experience on your school day trip.

Break Free Escape Room Stoke Newcastle-under-Lyme

At Break Free Escape Room Stoke Newcastle-under-Lyme students can work together and test their logic and deduction skills by trying to escape from a themed room in under 60 minutes. Make your school trips exciting and reward your students.

Escape Reality Escape Rooms Leeds

Students can apply problem-solving, critical thinking, and teamwork skills in a real-world context in Escape Reality Escape Rooms Leeds Yorkshire. What a fun day for your school trip!

Escape Reality Escape Rooms Preston Lancashire

Experience the thrill of Preston's best escape room game at Escape Reality Escape Rooms. A perfect and exciting reward trip for your school group.

Stockeld Park Storyworld of Adventure North Yorkshire

Stockeld Park is the perfect place for school days out in Yorkshire. Visit and experience the adventure playgrounds and magical forest events in this unique, all-weather attraction located near Wetherby in West Yorkshire.

Escape Hunt Immersive Escape Room Leeds

Escape Hunt Immersive Escape Room Leeds features 5-star rated escape rooms, a luxury lounge and VIP amenities for your students. The most exciting escape experience is now open for your school day trips.

Escape Hunt Immersive Escape Room London Oxford Street

Work as a team with your school mates in Escape Hunt, in London to find clues, solve puzzles and complete challenges before the time runs out. This isn’t something you watch, it’s something you experience. A perfect place for a school day trip.

Escape Hunt Immersive Escape Room Bristol

Escape Hunt Immersive Escape Room Birmingham

Escape Hunt Birmingham is packed with excitement, where students will leap into new worlds to complete ground-breaking missions. They have to work as a team to find clues, solve puzzles and complete challenges. What a great way to spend a school day trip.

Lower Drayton Farm Park Learning Outdoor Education Staffordshire

Lower Drayton Farm offers schools/student groups an interactive fun learning experience where pupils will become enthralled in the 750-acre working farm that boasts a plethora of themed activities, animals encounters designed to educate and inspire.

The Bear Grylls Adventure Reward Trips Birmingham NEC

The Bear Grylls Adventure, Birmingham, offers a plethora of activities, including a Royal Marines-inspired assault course that will thrill and excite your students, creating the perfect reward trip for you pupils.

The Escapologist STEM engaging Escape Room Castleford

Escapologist's escape rooms present your students with both physical and psychological puzzles, creating a thrilling and enticing experience that also tests a pupils cognitive ability and team work. A fun Escape Game learning experience for schools.

The Escapologist Immersive Rewards Trip Leeds

Drayton Manor Resort

Drayton Manor Resort is the perfect option for a fun day out, with a theme park and zoo, students will not run out of attractions to visit, making it the ideal choice for a rewarding trip.

Zip World Tower South Wales

Zip World escape your classroom, packed with thrilling adventures for all ages & abilities with a wide range of fun activities where pupils can zip, bounce, swing, & slide in a safe environment. Try our schools programme covering many curriculum topics.

Zip World Llechwedd North Wales

Zip World Penrhyn Quarry North Wales

Ninja Warrior Adventure Activity Centre Guildford South East

Ninja Warrior UK Guildford is a unique purpose-built indoor obstacle course inspired by the famous ITV hit show, students will climb, balance, jump and swing across different obstacles via inflatables including jelly mountain, drop tower, moon bounce.

Landmark Forest Adventure Park

Landmark Forest Adventure Park boasts an array of indoor and outdoor attractions, nestled into an ancient pine forest that is inhabited by many prehistoric creatures, providing guests with a thrilling and enthralling experience.

Ninja Warrior UK Walsall Adventure Park

Ninja Warrior UK in Walsall is a unique purpose-built indoor obstacle course inspired by the famous ITV hit show, students will climb, balance, jump and swing across different obstacles via inflatables including jelly mountain, drop tower, moon bounce.

Xscape Yorkshire

School trips are a key part of a young person's education here at Xscape, we have options for both primary and secondary school packages at school trip friendly prices. Whether for fun, reward or educational purposes we have you covered.

Xscape Milton Keynes

Crealy Theme Park & Resort Devon

Crealy Theme Park & Resort Devon welcome schools and educational groups with over 60 rides and attractions, with outdoor rides, play parks, indoor rides & over 75,000 square foot of indoor play offering plenty of fun for students whatever the weather!

Sherlock The Official Live Game Immersive Experience London

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