Geography Trip to Sicily
A geography school trip to Italy offers your students the chance to explore Sicily, one of the largest islands in the Mediterranean!
With its varied landscapes and spectacular coastline, the island offers a geographical diversity of unspoilt seabeds and fertile volcanic slopes, making it a fascinating destination for a geography school trip.
Make sure you include a visit to Mount Etna, Europe’s tallest active volcano, and enjoy breathtaking views of the volcanic landscape from its summit.
Suggested Itinerary (4 days, 3 nights)
Day 1/4
Morning
Transfer to airport
Afternoon
Flight from the UK to Catania
Evening
Evening meal at the hotel
Day 2/4
Morning
Full-day excursion to Mount Etna, with lava tubing and a visit to the film exhibition
Evening
Return to hotel for evening meal
Day 3/4
Morning
Full-day excursion to Alcantara Gorge and Giardini Naxos
Evening
Return to hotel for evening meal
Day 4/4
Morning
Transfer to airport for return flight to the UK
What's included?
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3 nights' half-board accommodation
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Airport taxes and passenger duty at current rates
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ATOL protected return flights from the UK
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Comprehensive travel and medical insurance
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Detailed information pack
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Excursion to Mount Etna - including Mount Etna cable car with 4x4 and alpine guide, and Stromboli
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Free staff place ratio 1:10
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Itinerary planning service
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Return airport transfers in resort
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Vamoos travel app - giving you access to all your trip documents on your phone or tablet
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VAT at current rates to tour operators
Curriculum Links
A-Level
- Earth structure and plate tectonics
- Tectonic disaster trends since 1960
- Active volcanoes - eruptive activity and land formation
- Human responses to natural hazards
- Managing tectonic hazards - predictions and forecasting
- Coastal landscape systems and features of littoral zones
- Weathering, erosion and deposition
- Coastal management strategies
- Threats to the coastline and the impact of tourism
- Fieldwork
GCSE
- Plate tectonics theory
- Living alongside hazards in developed countries
- Management of tectonic hazards and their effects
- Monitoring, prediction and protection at plate boundaries
- Geomorphic processes, erosion and deposition
- Distinctive coastal landforms
- Impact of humans on coasts
- Coastline protection schemes
- Fieldwork
Key Stage 3
- Geological timescales and plate tectonics
- Rocks, weathering and soils
- Hydrology and coasts
Primary
- The water cycle
- Volcanoes and earthquakes
Educational activities and visits
Alcantara Gorges
The gorges of Alcantara are canyons of black lava walls which tower as much as 50m above the Alcantara river.It's… Read More
Mount Etna
Mount Etna dominates eastern Sicily at a height of 3292m and isthe highest and largest active volcano in Europe.Etna has… Read More
Siracusa/Ortygia Island
Located near the southeastern corner of Sicily on the Ionian coast, Siracusa (Syracuse) is built on an ancient Greek settlement… Read More
Stromboli
Stromboli holds Europe's biggest active volcano after Etna - the only volcano in Europe with permanently eruptive activity. During the… Read More
Accommodation
Nike Hotel’s 51 guestrooms feature modern Mediterranean-style decor in white and blue; all include air conditioning (surcharge), satellite television, direct-dial phones, and hair dryers.Guests can start the day with a buffet breakfast, sunbathe on the hotel’s private beach and enjoy drinks on the terrace of the seasonal bar; the hotel provides a concierge service.
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1 Creating Your Perfect Trip
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3 After you've booked
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4 While you're away
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5 After your trip
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Need help?
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Don’t hesitate to contact me for any advice or further information on how your school trip can be tailored to your requirements.
We had an absolutely fantastic trip - all the pupils loved it! We saw so much in the 3 days we were there, and Halsbury made the whole process much easier to manage. It was my first time planning a trip but with their support everything ran smoothly. I would definitely go back and am already thinking about next year's trip.— St. Wilfrid's RC College
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