All School Trips Abroad articles
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News & IdeasEducation 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
Carisbrooke College's KS4 trip to China
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.
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Case Studies
Watch: a pupil's video from Bohunt School's Big Expedition to the Himalayas
Bohunt Education Trust took 12 students on a trip of a lifetime to scale a summit of more than 6000m in the Himalayas, as part of its annual Big Expedition trip.
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News & Ideas
Virtual Washington DC visits can be organised in time for the US election
As the US counts down to the general election on 3rd November, teachers can organise virtual trips to Washington DC, the home of American politics.
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Sponsored
Halsbury Travel explains what school trips will look like in 2021
After the coronavirus pandemic brought school trips to an abrupt halt in March 2020, school tour operator Halsbury Travel explains what to expect in 2020/21.
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Sponsored
Spain awaits you: a look at why it’s the ideal destination for schools in the future
Looking ahead, Spain ticks all the boxes and more when it comes to immersive cross-curricular school trips. Here’s why.
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News & Ideas
School Travel Forum wants to ensure schools are ‘In Safe Hands’ when residentials restart
School Travel Forum has commissioned a new report, ‘In Safe Hands’, which will outline the protocols needed to be put in place by schools and tour providers to ensure pupils and teachers can travel with confidence when the time is right.
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Interview
TV presenter Paul Rose on how lockdown has highlighted the importance of travel
In an exclusive interview with STO, the adventurer, who has presented various BBC documentaries, spoke about why now is the opportunity to rethink how children learn.
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Case Studies
Pupils overcome challenges for successful half-term ski trip
Matt Clayton, teacher and assistant vocational curriculum manager at Queen Ethelburga’s school in York speaks about his favourite trip over the last year - a ski trip to Sestriere which brought out the best of his pupils.
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Case Studies
Immersing students in Italian culture during a memorable trip to Venice
Teacher Shaakir Uddin reflects on Greenacre Academy’s school trip to Italy last year including what they did and his recommendations for others.
