Study trips with fellow students are often the pinnacles of our school lives. We don’t remember every nugget of information taught to us, but we will always remember the times we spent with friends and colleagues, travelling and learning on study tours UK and worldwide.
But we’re now living in the technological age. With students constantly absorbed by their phones and the latest gadget, getting them interested in an educational trip is hard work. Here are 11 great ways you can make your educational school trip one that even todays kids will remember.
1. Try something new
Are you running the same trip that’s been a school tradition for decades? That museum is so familiar with you that the staff already know you by name. The …show more content…
Some of the most revered museums in the world are in Europe; don’t let your students miss out.
3. Head Outdoors
Despite the name, study travel is not just studying and travelling. A successful school trip is more than driving to the museum, looking at the exhibitions and driving back again. Outdoor school trips can be just as educational besides providing a breath of fresh air.
Why not take the astrology class camping to do some star gazing in the open, rather than carting them off to the nearest observatory? The Dartford Moors are one of the best places to stargaze in the UK, while a 3-hour plane journey to Reykjavik puts you in the perfect location to teach students about the aurora borealis, solar winds and the magnetosphere.
Instead of spending hours having your students draw their favourite classics from a dusty London museum, take them on a Euro study trip. Travel to the south of France for coffee in Van Gogh’s “Café Terrace at Night” before heading back north to the UK, stopping at Monet’s gardens to see the ponds that inspired his infamous “Water