All School Trips Abroad articles
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School Travel AwardsIceland: awe and wonder for Bablake School’s prize trip experience
Bablake School in Coventry finally got to spend their £1,500 prize money after head teacher Andy Wright won the School Trip Champion Award in 2019 - here’s what they did.
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Features
Teachers immersed in real-life scenarios for training experience
We report back from an educational visit training experience like no other, where teachers and EVCs explain to School Travel Organiser the benefits of cooperative planning when it comes to school trips.
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News & Ideas
Commitment to make school travel between the UK and France easier
Both countries have said they’ll look at removing some of the barriers that have arisen since the UK left the EU which have caused issues for school groups.
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News & Ideas
Voyager School Travel unveils extra French programme in Normandy to meet ‘surge in demand’
The education provider has launched its fourth residential language programme in France, offering a mix of on-site language activities and excursions for pupils to experience local culture and improve their language skills.
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Features
Teachers share their 8 must-have items for school trips
What are the essentials you should take on a school trip or residential? Here, teachers have some great suggestions you might not have thought of.
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News & Ideas
Digital Covid Pass for 12-15 year olds a ‘significant step’ in reopening international travel
The move by the Department for Transport to allow 12-15 year olds in England to prove their vaccination status via a digital NHS Covid Pass for international outbound travel has been welcomed by the school travel sector.
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Features
8 simple steps for booking a school ski trip
Robert McIntosh shares his top tips for booking a successful ski trip. So if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of organising one for your students, read on.
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News & Ideas
School Travel Forum launches bespoke insurance for school trips
A comprehensive travel insurance product called STF Travel Sure has been designed especially for schools, aiming to give teachers confidence when organising educational visits.
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News & Ideas
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson highlights the value of school residentials
MP Gavin Williamson has highlighted the “real value” of school residentials when quizzed in the House of Commons about the education and school travel sector.
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News & Ideas
School trips abroad get the green light from the autumn term
Updated guidance from the Department for Education from Step 4 of the Government’s roadmap gives schools the go-ahead to take school groups on trips abroad that have previously been deferred - and they can also plan new international visits.
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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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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
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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Features
School trip memories: School Travel Forum’s CEO shares two of her own very special trips
Gill Harvey, CEO of the School Travel Forum, explains why two of her school trips as a child stand out as the most rewarding.
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Features
School trip memories: how one teacher uncovered Belgium’s many highlights
Amanda Lynott, assistant headteacher at The Cottesloe School in Wing, Buckinghamshire, recalls an excellent trip to Ostend in Belgium from her time at school.
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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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School Travel Awards
'My Best School Trip' finalist 2020/21: Carisbrooke College
Students from Carisbrooke College in the Isle of Wight embarked on an exciting overseas trip which took place in November 2019, taking in the sights of Shanghai, Xi’an and Beijing.
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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.
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Sponsored
NST: overwhelmed by your support and looking ahead
We speak to Steve Craven, director of NST, a specialist provider of educational group travel about the impact of the pandemic and why it’s vital that children don’t miss out on learning outside the classroom experiences.
