The Hill End Centre
The Hill End Centre
An outdoor education centre offering a wide range of activities for all age groups and are particularly popular with Primary Schools.
Geography school trip ideas for primary schools
Educational visits linked to the National Curriculum for geography
Our planet is incredible. Who can fail to marvel at the diversity of landscapes David Attenborough has brought into our living rooms, be amazed to learn that at certain times of the year you can walk from the U.S. to Russia, or wonder at the fact that continents shift at the same rate as our fingernails grow? And that’s only physical geography – human geography can be equally amazing. Did you know that California has more people than the whole of Canada?
Educational school trips are made for geography, for fieldwork and observation, practical experience and getting hands-on. It’s a subject that demands investigation, opens up new discoveries, and encourages important skills such as critical-thinking and problem-solving. In fact, Ofsted have found that good and regular fieldwork motivates pupils and enhances their learning in geography.
Geography school trips give primary school children a basic, practical understanding of what it is to be a geographer – studying the earth’s physical features and how it affects and is affected by human society – by experiencing it for themselves.
For geography primary school trip ideas near you, simply select your region and choose the class trip that suits your needs.
Recently added geography primary school trips
Allerton Waste Recovery Park
Allerton Waste Recovery Park
Learn about what happens to your household waste – and how they are using it to create energy!
WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre
WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre
Natural wetland habitats and ‘hands on exhibits’ combined with an interactive teaching session, make a unique educational experience.
Skern Lodge
Skern Lodge
Skern is set within 22 acres of its own grounds with the tidal waters and the atlantic surf on the doorstep, they are in the perfect location.
Sea Life Manchester
Sea Life Manchester
SEA LIFE Manchester offers you an astonishing aquarium experience where pupils will get up close to fascinating creatures.
Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm
Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm
Educational field trips are a great way to learn and a day out at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm provides great learning opportunities.
London Eye
London Eye
A classroom with a moving view! Plan a lesson your students will never forget 135 meters above the River Thames.
Animal Education Centre, East Park
Animal Education Centre, East Park
This small city zoo offers a glimpse into the amazing diversity of our world’s wildlife.
The Kingswood Trust
The Kingswood Trust
A place where history comes alive with old buildings, air-raid shelters, historical features and artefacts.
Boundless Outdoors
Boundless Outdoors
With outdoor learning centres in Malvern and Bell Heath they aim to be the leading outdoor education provider in Worcestershire and the West Midlands.
The Beatles Story
The Beatles Story
Learn about the Beatles' lives, times, music and influential legacy using interactive screens and a giant piano.
National Stone Centre
National Stone Centre
A 40 acre Site of Special Scientific Interest set within six former limestone quarries in the heart of the Derbyshire Dales.
Wimpole Hall Estate
Wimpole Hall Estate
Wimpole is a large working estate with home farm, large country house, formal and walled kitchen gardens and extensive parkland.
National Waterfront Museum
National Waterfront Museum
The National Waterfront Museum tells the inspiring story of Wales’s contribution to past, present and future innovation and industry.
Mary Rose Museum
Mary Rose Museum
The Mary Rose – Henry VIII's warship, lost in 1545, recovered in 1982 and now on display in a purpose built museum in Portsmouth.
The Crystal
The Crystal
Home to the world’s largest exhibition on the future of cities, the world’s most sustainable events venue, and office space for global engineering powerhouse Siemens.
Jurassic Coast
Jurassic Coast
Whether you want to hunt for fossils, visit a museum, or simply take in the stunning scenery on a good walk, you’ll find there’s plenty of things to do.
The Heights of Abraham
The Heights of Abraham
Country park and famous show caverns set in 60 acres of woodland and reached by cable car over deep limestone gorge in the Peak District.
Creswell Crags
Creswell Crags
Walk in the footsteps of the Ice Age hunter and enter a world of fire and flint.
Chocolate Collective
Chocolate Collective
They work closely with primary and secondary schools to run educational, chocolate making classes.
Audley End House
Audley End House
A noble 17th century mansion complete with Victorian Service Wing and stables set in magnificently kept gardens.
The Sustainability Centre
The Sustainability Centre
Sustainability is now a topic that schools are keen to address, both inside and outside the classroom through organised visits.
Hatfield Outdoor Activity Centre
Hatfield Outdoor Activity Centre
Activities range from Canoes, Climbing, Archery, Raft Building and Exploring, plus facilities to stay the night inside or out.
Fairy Forest School
Fairy Forest School
Children learn best and develop more in the great outdoors, so they use fairy stories and love of nature to give children a magical lesson.
Durham Cathedral
Durham Cathedral
Durham Cathedral is a Christian Church of the Anglican Communion and the seat of the Bishop of Durham.
Bronte Parsonage Museum
Bronte Parsonage Museum
Former home of the world's most famous literary family and the place where Charlotte, Emily and Anne wrote some of the greatest novels in the English Language.
East Lancashire Railway
East Lancashire Railway
A 12 ¹⁄₂ mile heritage railway line in north west England which runs between Heywood in Greater Manchester and Rawtenstal.
Leighton Hall
Leighton Hall
Learn about the fascinating history as well as guided tours, birds of prey and woodland walks.
What does the National Curriculum say?
A high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. (A great geography school trip will certainly help with that – it can be something your pupils will remember forever.)
Pupils should learn about different places, people, and natural and human environments, and gain a deep understanding of the earth’s physical and human processes.
Key Stage 1 – Pupils should be taught
Locational knowledge
• Our continents and oceans
• UK countries, capitals and seas
Place knowledge
• Start to understand geographical similarities and differences
Human and physical geography
• Recognise weather patterns in the UK and both hot and cold areas of the world
• Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical and human features, for example beach, cliff, coast, and city, town, village
Geographical skills and fieldwork
• Use maps and atlases to locate the UK and other countries, continents and oceans
• Use simple compass directions and directional language, for example near and far
• Use aerial photographs and plans to recognise landmarks and human and physical features
• Devise a simple map
• Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the human and physical geography of their school and surrounds
Key Stage 2 – Pupils should be taught
Locational knowledge
• Locate the world’s countries, focusing on Europe and North and South America. Learn about their physical and human characteristics and major cities
• Learn the counties and cities of the UK, their human and physical characteristics, main topographical features and how they have changed
• Identify latitudes, longitudes and time zones
Place knowledge
• Enhance understanding of geographical similarities and differences
Human and physical geography
• Physical: climate zones, rivers, mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes, and the water cycle
• Human: types of settlement and land use, economic activity, and the distribution of natural resources
Geographical skills and fieldwork
• Use analogue and digital mapping to locate countries and describe features
• Use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols and keys
• Use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a variety of techniques
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