Educational Field Trips
Unique group facilities for Schools, Colleges, Universities & Individuals

Our unique study excursions give you skills and enjoyment and seeing places the average tourist never would! These Field trips are ideal for the following categories:
a) individual students,
b) our own Scholars and also for
c) School, College and University groups.

Our field trips are full or weekend expeditions/visits geared to a specific research project, or a thematic study out in the landscape. We have had experience of organising educational field since 1990 in terms of our own organisation and curricula and for other organisations since 1975.

The field trips are operational and available throughout the entire year. Although for most students and colleges the Easter and Summer vacations will prove the most practical. We provide all that you need: transport, accommodation qualified teaching staff, full schedule & itinerary. We have experience in providing educational facilities for students from: England, Ireland, Romania, Estonia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Greece, United Arab Emirates, USA, Canada, Australia.

By booking a trip with us you will have relaxing and enjoyable way of improving your overall knowledge and study skills- whilst also getting to see parts of England that the average tourist never would!

Age Groups & Language:
The lower age range is 16 years of age. The taught language is English. The standard should be intermediate or above.

What We Provide:
Private transport within the UK. Collection from the airport. Full board accommodation. Qualified teaching staff and experts in the field. Full programme of activities. Full schedule and itinerary.

Type of Trips Offered:
These Field Trips can bring in the following elements, which can be separate but often have more than one element in them as you will see:

i) A particular subject you or your group want to investigate or see as part of your college/university Department syllabus or perhaps a vacation project in England (many universities send and finance students to another country for a project during the summer vacation).
ii) A thematic excursion offered by our School as part of your own study holiday with us: that is the excursion will help draw links and parallels between the ancient site or landscape we are visiting in England and features historically in your own country.
iii) A field trip to give a hands on experience of a particular seminar or project you have been studying in class with us- e.g. Avebury or Stoneheneg etc: we tell you about this in class and help you see ways of reading the landscape for evidence and then go to experience the landscape itself.
iv) Similarly, as an individual, a thematic excursion may form the part of a project you have to complete for your College/University studies back home (for example we had a Swiss student who was trying to complete a project for College in Berne on Norman-Angevin architecture, and had thought but could not go to Sicily- until he realised that during the trips he was having with us in England he could see a vast array of example of Norman-Angevin architecture- so the day trips were mofified slightly to feature and highlight what he needed to see).

Main Venues/Region:
The full or weekend field trip expeditions (and sometimes one whole week) are to such areas as: Dartmoor, Salisbury Plain, Somerset Levels, Marlborough Downs, Chiltern Hills, Welsh border, Thames Valley, Dorset Coast, Cornwall, and other unique landscapes. There are also day excursions to ancient sites all over Southern England.

There is also always a Landscape Assessment. Lectures/seminars also form part of expeditions. These pertain to the history of the area; geological features; special magickal spiritual significance sites, folklore, and so on.

Personal Involvement :
and collating evidence of these elements. There are also group seminars and study projects in Nature. That it is part of the educational activities to garner experience and observation of such things as:
1): The range of wildlife in that landscape. 2): The peculiarities of the weather/micro climate etc. 3): The type of terrain, rock structure, geological features. 4): Overall type of natural phenomenon- e.g. rivers/streams, hills, farmland, forest, moor, scrub, rock, etc. 5): History. 6): Mythology. 7): Local folklore & customs. 8): Dialect. 9): The specific mythology and magickal qualities of features/wildlife of the area.

Over the course of each days trek or project aspects of all of these are brought into the observations and studies of the group: e.g. why was an ancient site built where it was; how the weather & conditions were different from today; man made natural features (reservoirs/forests plantations etc) and how this has aided or detracted from the landscape.

Ancient Sites:
We have a large catalogue of prehistoric, ancient and medieval sites which we have visited and can guide you around. Many of these are quite unknown and have hardly ever been visited by individuals before yet alone tourists or other groups. Some are quite remote.
The variety of sites includes:
Single stone circles; Double stone circles; Henges; Round barrows; Long barrows; Stone rows; Avenues; Tracks; Dolmens; Villages and pounds; Man made hills; Hill carvings; Cysts; Celtic hill forts & villages; Roman settlements; Viking & Saxon forts; Dykes and borders; Deserted medieval villages; Long-houses.
In addition of course to the usual range of castles, Abbeys, Cathedrals, Palaces, Manors.

Individual Projects:
That is the Supervising Teacher/officer assigns each participant to a project so that at the end of the expedition he/she will make a presentation on what he/she has discovered about the landscape or whatever. The subject of the individual project will relate to individual interest- i.e. the individual offers his/her own project according to what he/she wishes to do (e.g. ornithology, flora/fauna, legends rock structure or whatever). If in doubt the Expedition Leader will offer a list of choices.

House Carls:
Our own scholars (House Carls) and students (summer school) receive these field trips free as part of their normal programme.