All #SaveOurSchoolTrips articles
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News & Ideas
Boris Johnson confirms residential trips are allowed in England
Residential visits can go ahead in England with schools now able to book future trips, the Government has confirmed.
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Column
Deputy headteacher shares future trip plans and support for outdoor education
Arthur Wood, deputy headteacher of Ashbridge Independent School in Preston, Lancashire, tells us about the trips his school has planned this year and why we must pull together to support the outdoor education sector.
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Video
Watch: School Travel Forum video captures the value of educational visits
A video, created by the School Travel Forum, highlights the value of educational visits and how school trips transform lives.
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News & Ideas
DfE announces dates for when school trips and residentials can resume
The Department for Education (DfE) updated the guidance for England stating that day visits can restart from stage two of the roadmap, no earlier than 12th April, with residentials resuming no sooner than 17th May.
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News & Ideas
“School trips should be allowed in the summer”, open letter to the Prime Minister states
In the letter sent to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, outdoor education experts, celebrities and others highlight the serious impact of the pandemic on the industry.
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Features
How learning beyond the classroom can aid school recovery
Why moving learning beyond the classroom is so central to the recovery of schools, pupils and teachers post-pandemic.
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News & Ideas
Teachers on why school trips will be invaluable to rebuilding children’s confidence
With the future looking more promising for school trips to resume, teachers have spoken about how school visits and learning outside the classroom can help children after a disjointed time away.
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News & Ideas
Boris Johnson responds to question about the reopening of outdoor education
Boris Johnson said he “would have thought” that outdoor education should be able to open at the same time as schools return on 8th March.
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News & Ideas
Plans set out to safely restart overnight educational visits
Overnight UK trips should be able to resume after Easter and international travel should follow in the 2021/22 school year - that’s the message from the outdoor education and school travel sector.
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News & Ideas
DfE recognises “enormous benefits” of residentials amid hopes for Easter 2021 restart
The Department for Education has concluded its review into the guidance against overnight educational visits with a possibility of them resuming from Easter.
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News & Ideas
MPs urged to support #saveoutdoored campaign as the issue is raised in Parliament
Teachers, parents and people from across the outdoor education sector are being encouraged to ask their local MPs to help back the campaign to save the sector.
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News & Ideas
“Support our sector or face a lost generation of learners” says the Field Studies Council
The Field Studies Council (FSC) has said that thousands of students could become part of a lost generation of learners unless England and Wales follow Scotland’s lead in financially supporting outdoor learning centres.
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News & Ideas
Video & pictures: #saveoutdoored campaign poster tours the UK
The #saveoutdoored campaign is being supported across the UK as centres come together to highlight the plight of the sector.
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News & Ideas
More support to save school trips & outdoor education as the DfE agrees to a review
Teachers, providers, TV personalities and MPs continue to add their voices to the campaigns to #SaveOurSchoolTrips and #saveoutdoored, and we banged the drum through our Oct / Nov edition.
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News & Ideas
TV presenters Kate Humble & Paul Rose give their support to school visits
Adventurers Kate Humble and Paul Rose have given their support to school visits as a generation of young people risk missing out on experiences.