Education
Take learning beyond the textbook – international school trips designed around your curriculum and objectives.
Discover our Education tripsChoose Halsbury Travel and find the most exciting adventure for your group (with less admin, fewer unknowns and support at every step).
Halsbury Travel is one of the UK’s largest school trip companies. We provide curriculum-focused educational tours for primary and secondary schools.
Explore our itineraries that keep eyes up and phones down but work for every budget. From experiencing life in the trenches on a WW1 battlefield tour, to the thrill of cities like Barcelona, Paris or New York, these are memories that will last a lifetime (but shouldn’t take all your spare time to plan).
Planning a school trip takes time, care and serious organisation. We’ve been helping busy teachers do it for over 40 years, so we know how important it is that you feel properly supported when travelling overseas with other people’s children.
As a fully-accredited school travel company, you can be sure your trip is in safe hands. Our educational travel specialists are here to guide you through the entire process. They’ll help you shape a tailored trip, reduce the admin load and experience the world (without a world of surprises).
Take learning beyond the textbook – international school trips designed around your curriculum and objectives.
Discover our Education tripsSnow. Self-discovery. Shared experiences. Let’s make your trip the one they talk about for years to come.
Discover our Ski tripsEnjoy an unforgettable watersports or outdoor adventure, train with professional coaches or explore another culture through a shared passion for sport.
Discover our Sports & Adventure tripsShare your music with the world. Your school tours will be packed full of performance experiences to inspire.
Discover our Music tripsYour new digital customer portal My Trip Zone gives you one single, secure place to collect and manage all your trip information.
Parents submit everything via the digital forms reducing the need for back-and-forth emails and manual data entry. Less Admin. More Adventure.
Over 40 years’ experience
Trusted by over 900 teachers each year
Financially protected school trips (ABTA, ATOL & ABTOT bonded)
We take safety seriously – see our robust Safety Management System
Risk assessments made easy with our LOTC Quality badge
We champion safeguarding with Patronus – a leading safeguarding software
Quality trips designed to deliver real impact
24/7 support while you’re away
2 nights’ free accommodation inspection visits
Collect passport and dietary information quickly and simply with our smart digital portal.
Every school group is different. Different learning goals. Different budgets. Different practical needs. That’s why we take time to understand what matters to you before building your trip and creating an itinerary that fits your students, your objectives and your school.
The next step is to get your trip approved and then get students signed up to it. Our ‘Trip Launch Pack’ will help you with this. Full of resources, it’s completely free to download and is designed to make your life easier at this crucial point in the trip planning process.
You’ll now have access to My Trip Zone. From here, you’ll share one secure link with parents so they can submit passenger details directly, scan passports for greater accuracy and receive alerts about renewals or visa requirements they should be aware of. You can manage passenger lists and waiting lists in one place – with less chasing and more confidence.
Once your booking’s been confirmed, your Itinerary Coordinator will start work on the finer details. They’ll make sure your itinerary makes the most of your time and will guide you through the rest of the process, so your trip doesn’t take up all your time.
From lost property to properly lost, we’ll always be on the end of the phone while you’re away providing 24/7 support. You’ll also get a final info pack before you go, and you’ll be able to access all your trip documents via the Vamoos app.
Once you’re back, we’ll ask you to complete a detailed feedback survey, so we can continue to develop our trips and service. Let’s start planning your next trip now too, you can give parents plenty of time to pay for it (and so it’s less stressful for you).
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Your school trip will be fully financially protected
Your group’s safety will be prioritised
Your trip will be a quality educational experience
Explore river, coastal and estuarine environments on this epic geography adventure to the North Devon coast.
4 days, 3 nights
Find out how wounded WW1 soldiers were treated in the field and discover who was treating them.
3 days, 2 nights
6 days, 4 nights
In South Africa, you’ll play local opposition of a similar standard to help build your team’s confidence and experience.
9 days, 6 nights
The Costa Brava has retained its authentic Spanish character and its location, with Barcelona at the southern tip, means the city is nearby.
7 days, 4 nights
Beginner 46%
Intermediate 29%
Advanced 25%
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As standard, we include a ratio of 1:8 for coach trips and 1:10 for air trips, but this can be tailored to whatever your school or local authority require. Please let us know if you require different adult-to-child ratios on your trip.
Yes, and we publish our Safety Management System for the benefit of Group Leaders, teachers, parents and LEAs.
We have a great many risk assessments for most of the places that you may visit. However, there is no substitute for conducting your own risk assessments, as only you know the unique needs of the pupils and passengers that will undertake the trip. Check out our guide to school trip risk assessments for more information.
We do offer travel insurance for our trips, but it's an optional extra so it's up to you whether you add it to your booking. To find out more about it, head to our insurance page, where you can view the policy, along with some really helpful FAQs.
If you decide not to add this insurance to your booking, please make sure you do have alternative insurance in place that provides suitable cover.
We're usually able to arrange trips for groups with a minimum of 15 paying passengers (any fewer than this tends to make it quite expensive, in our experience). Occasionally it may be possible to arrange a trip for smaller numbers, including a coach-share option for smaller groups.
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