Treasure Trails School Trips

Treasure Trails School Trips are an exciting and educational way for school children and youth groups to explore a village, town or city.

What happens?
An especially created Trail Booklet is given to each team of students with an intriguing mystery to solve on an easy to follow route around the area. The answers to the clues are located on buildings, monuments and churches encouraging the students to learn some local history as well as use team work and problem solving skills. Your Treasure Trails School Trip event will take around three hours and involves around 2 miles of walking.

Extra fun and educational tasks are included in the booklet, which are tailored to the appropriate age of the students, including a treasure collection and local quiz. We provide everything the teachers need to run the Treasure Trails School Trip event themselves and send all materials to the school in advance, so the day is stress free and smoothly organised.

Why are the educational benefits?
Our Treasure Trails School Trips requires the children to work together, to negotiate, to solve problems and to navigate following instructions.  The Trail also includes local history and requires examination of local monuments and architecture.

We are passionate about making learning fun and think we have a perfect way to encourage exploration and discovery in young people.

What does a typical Treasure Trails School Trip include?
Four weeks before the event the school will receive their complete Treasure Trails School Trip Pack. As well as the Treasure Trails School Trip Booklets an Organiser’s Pack is incorporated which includes everything needed to run the Trail, a risk assessment, instructions on how to divide the group into teams and the answers in a sealed envelope.

Each visit can be tailored to each particular group and the Treasure Trails School Trip Booklet will be personalised with the name of the school and the date.

Who is it for?
The Trails are most suitable for children in Key Stages 2 and 3.

How many students can we bring?
We can cater to any group size. The group will be split into small teams of four or five and each team will have a Treasure Trails School Trip pack with clear instructions and a route to follow.

What is provided?
A teacher’s/organiser’s pack is provided with risk assessment, full instructions on what to do and how to organise the group. A team sheet to collect each group’s score is also included as well as the solution to the mystery in a sealed envelope allowing the teachers to take part. The entire pack is sent to the school a month in advance of the trip.

Where can we go?
Treasure Trails School Trips can be provided in over 600 locations all over the UK, including some of the most visited and historically interesting places in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Take a look at the map on our homepage to find out our current locations. If we have a Trail listed, we will develop it into a Treasure Trails School Trip for you.

What does it cost?
Each Treasure Trails School Trip is tailored to your needs. Get in touch for more information.

Bookings:
Bookings can be made through Treasure Trails Head Office on 01872 263692 or info@treasuretrails.co.uk. We would be delighted to discuss your individual requirements.

Each Treasure Trails School Trip Trail is written by a local expert, many of whom have worked in the education sector. Teresa Ridd is a Director of Treasure Trails and an ex-teacher and would be delighted to discuss the educational benefits of your trip – teresa@treasuretrails.co.uk / 01872 263692

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