Rhyd-y-creuau Field Centre School Trip

Field Studies Council

Betws-y-Coed Clwyd LL24 0HB

Latest News: 3rd February 2026
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The centre is close to wooded valleys, rocky shores, beaches and traditional seaside resorts. The 2.2 hectare estate includes a football pitch, woodland, biodiversity garden, campfire area, teambuilding challenges, stream and ponds.

Rhyd-y-creuau is a short drive south from the A55 North Wales Expressway, making us easily accessible throughout the year from most areas. Its nearest railway station is at Betws-y-coed, a simple flat walk of around 1km.

Build your perfect school trip

Using activities in the natural environment we support personal development and highlight the many benefits of spending time outdoors.

Our programmes can be tailored to your exam board specifications covering the relevant content you require.

Our residential trips are designed to build resilience, boost confidence, and strengthen communication skills.

Outdoor Learning courses are created to complement the curriculum, and engage pupils with subjects in fresh, hands-on ways.

Adventure learning encourages children to push beyond their comfort zones and discover what they're capable of. With carefully tailored, age-appropriate challenges, every child is supported to grow their knowledge and learn in new and exciting ways.

All our residential centres will provide you with:

· A qualified tutor to oversee your trip, so you always have a friendly face making your stay as relaxed as possible.

· Pre-trip planning including itinerary, kit lists, and risk assessments.

· Centres with up to 180 beds, offering flexible rooming options and all bedding included

· Healthy filling meals from dinner on your first day to a packed lunch on your last day

· We hold Learning Outside the Classroom's Quality Badge so there is less paperwork for you

· Free use of waterproofs and wellies

We offer different price bands through the year to offer value for money.

- Rhyd-y-creuau is part of Field Studies Council , an environmental education charity with 80 years' experience of providing fieldwork and outdoor learning and a network of UK centres offering day and residential fieldwork opportunities.

Our charity works in many other ways to create a world where everyone feels connected to the environment including through projects working in local communities and lobbying government to include outdoor education in the curriculum.

school trip at Rhyd-y-creuau Field Centre

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Rhyd-y-creuau Field Centre school groups

Current special offers for school groups

*25% off school residential trips with an arrival date during the next three months.

Our late availability offer is available for our full range of courses for visits with an arrival date during the next three months, for customers visiting one of our listed centres*

If you are interested in booking at the discounted rate, please fill in the form on the web site, stating any dates you are able to consider. Or get in touch with our team for an no-obligation quote and to check which centres currently have space.

Standard 2026 price examples:
Book a Primary 2-night stay for just £174 per student per student (normally £231 per pupil).
Book a GCSE 2-night stay for just £193 per student (normally £257 per student).
Book an A Level 2-night stay for just £201 per student per student (normally £268 per student).
Please get in touch for current pricing

valid until: January 2028

15% off for new residential customers

We are currently offering 15% off for new residential customers. Enter the code NEW15 on any of our enquiry forms across the website to take up our special offer, or contact our team for a no-obligation quote.

Standard 2026 price examples:
Book a Primary 2-night stay for just £174 per student per student (normally £231 per pupil).
Book a GCSE 2-night stay for just £193 per student (normally £257 per student).
Book an A Level 2-night stay for just £201 per student per student (normally £268 per student).
Please get in touch for current pricing

valid until: January 2027

British Science Week 2026

The Field Studies Council helps pupils turn curiosity into meaningful scientific questions through hands-on outdoor learning. Our activities encourage learners to ask “why?”, “how?” and “what if?” while investigating real habitats, species and environmental processes. From measuring biodiversity to exploring climate change, we support teachers to build enquiry skills, critical thinking and a lifelong curiosity about the natural world.

Teacher Checklist

Risk Assessments
Inspection Visits
Free Places for Teachers
Bursaries or Funded Places Available
Resource Packs
LOtC Quality Badge
AALA Licence
Institute of Outdoor Learning
Duke of Edinburgh Award

What activities are available during educational visits in 2026?

We have a wide range of activities such as:
Primary: minibeast hunt, pond dipping, hiking, low ropes, eco-activity, rock climbing, bushcraft, orienteering.
Secondary/A level: geography independent investigations, adventurous geography, river study, biology core practicals

Which curriculum topics do we cater for?

Wildlife School Trip

Rhyd-y-Creuau has an abundance of wildlife, and we offer a range of sessions and courses all about our natural environmant and the wildife within it.

Students will look at a variety of plants and common animals using age appropriate classification keys to identify living things we find in our woodland and in our pond habitats. From mammals, invertebrates and bird life, to the native plants and flowers found in North Wales - we have an amazing array of wildlife to study!

Most sessions have introductory and concluding classroom sessions. They are delivered by fully trained and experienced tutors.

Bushcraft School Trip

Identify basic survival needs, explore the woods, build a shelter and forage for wild foods. Follow a woodland trail and search for tracks and signs, and spend a day filled with team building and problem solving activities.

We offer a range of sessions and courses on bushcraft, which can include;
- Orienteering and Navigation
- Mammal tracks and signs
- Camp fire building and lighting
- Den building
- Foraging
, Courses are delivered by fully trained and experienced tutors.

Human Geography School Trip

Settlement and land use Natural resources Population Urbanisation

Click to read full text We offer a range of sessions and courses covering human geography through fieldwork. Most sessions have short classroom sessions before and after.

Human Geography can be covered through fieldwork in a range of sessions and courses. Depending on the level and course you follow, this may include;
- Discovering the impact of people on the habitat using a range of fieldwork techniques
- Economic Growth and functions
- Regeneration and Placemaking
- Investigate the impact of counter-urbanisation in two contrasting settlements
- A qualitative and a quantitative fieldwork method
- develop an understanding of questions that can be investigated through fieldwork
- data presentation and analysis

Teaching is delivered by fully trained and experienced tutors.

Physical Geography School Trip

Water cycles Rivers Map and atlas Mountains Environment Coasts and seaside Fieldwork Glaciers

Click to read full text Geography courses cover KS2 to A level groups. KS2 pupils can use maps, stories and games to explore the woods. Discover the plants and animals that live here and design and build dens.

Our geography fieldwork trips and courses are carefully designed to cover all essential content from the curriculum. We ensure the maximum time outdoors possible, allowing students to take advantage of all benefits resulting from outdoor learning.

The geography fieldwork courses are tailored to curriculum requirements for GCSE, A Level, National, Higher, IB and lower secondary specifications and packed with relevant fieldwork content.

A selection of our popular residential visits to give an idea of what we can offer, Include;:

Coastal - Where the land meets the sea, the UK's coastline is over 7500 miles in length, and it's a place that's always changing through erosion, transportation and deposition. Coastlines are influenced by many physical and human forces, with dramatic consequences for the people who live there.
Rivers - constantly changing, water levels rise and fall after rain and with the seasons. Erosion, transportation and deposition can all alter the characteristics of the channel and the regime of the river
Regeneration - a complex process aiming to turn areas into sustainable, desirable and effective spaces for us to use and enjoy.
Investigations - at a local scale to consider place meaning and representation changing economic function and socio-demographic characteristics of places.
But we can also create a trip that is totally bespoke to your needs.

Teaching is delivered by fully trained and experienced tutors, to create and deliver geography experiences to suit your requirements. Most sessions have short classroom sessions before and after.

Environmental Geography School Trip

Extreme Weather Conservation

Click to read full text Environmental geography can be covered through fieldwork in a range of sessions and courses. Primary courses see children using maps, stories and games to explore the area. Discover the plants and animals that live here and spend the day engaged in a number of activities, games and investigations.
For KS4 and A level students all of our courses are linked to the exam board requirements for each subject and the course can be tailored to your specific needs.
We offer a range of sessions and courses covering environmental geography through fieldwork. Most sessions have short classroom sessions before and after. Teaching is delivered by fully trained and experienced tutors.

Students can cover a range of environmental geography topics looking at different plants and animals.
Dependant on the course you choose, students could have the opportunity to;
- take first hand measurements, make observations of distinctive river land forms found at the fieldwork sites along the river.
- make a comparison of two different areas used to observe the contrasting abundance of plants associated with varying management regimes.
- Investigate how human activity affects biodiversity, local flows, cycles and processes.
- take primary measurements of the coastal landscape in order to interpret the impact of key coastal processes and management on the landscape.

Delivered by expert, passionate tutors at the forefront of fieldwork tuition with a wide range of contrasting locations available.

Fieldstudies School Trip

Sampling and Statistics Ecology Ecosystems Rivers Mapping

Click to read full text We offer a range of sessions and courses covering field studies. For KS4 and A level students we link all of our courses to the exam board requirements for each subject and can tailor the course to your specific needs.

Field studies can be covered through fieldwork in a range of sessions and courses.
This can include:
- Sampling Statistics
- Fieldwork Methodology
- Investigation Introduction
- Coastal Environments
- Ecosystems
- Mapping
- River Studies
- Habitats etc

For KS4 and A level students all of our courses are linked to the exam board requirements for each subject and can be tailored to meet your specific needs.

Physical Education School Trip

Climbing Canoeing Orienteering Coasteering Caving

Click to read full text Rhyd-y-creuau can offer a range of adventurous activities including rock climbing, ghyll scrambling, and hiking.

Other activities may include orienteering, problem solving activities, bushcraft, canoeing, rafting, ghyll scrambling, hiking, ropes course, rock climbing, coasteering.

These activities offer the opportunity for fun and learning in an out-of-classroom setting, where pupils will develop their teamwork skills such as communication, problem solving, listening, collaboration and leadership. By challenging themselves to work together to achieve these activities, students develop self-awareness, confidence and self-esteem.

Learning in a natural environment permits students to develop an appreciation and respect for nature and living things, as well as an understanding of how we can look after our environment.

For our older students, this is an action packed course, set in stunning natural locations and inspiring students to succeed and excel in new physical challenges. It provides opportunities to improve confidence, build character and develop the desire to lead healthy, active lives while having fun participating in adventure activities.

A wide range of competitive, cooperative, fun and creative activities will stimulate students to think in different ways about themselves, each other and world in which we live in. They will have to work as a team, building trust and developing skills to solve problems through challenges such as low ropes, team building, orienteering and climbing. This course can be tailored specifically to any year group in key stage three and build in specific learning aims and needs for your group.

Pupils can do these activities in a residential course alongside curriculum content or environmental education.

Team Building School Trip

These activities offer the opportunity for fun and learning in an out-of-classroom setting, where pupils will develop their teamwork skills such as communication, problem solving, listening, collaboration and leadership. By challenging themselves to work together to achieve these activities, students develop self-awareness, confidence and self-esteem.

The activities available vary by location, as well as time of year- but may include orienteering, problem solving activities, bushcraft, canoeing, rafting, ghyll scrambling, hiking, ropes course, rock climbing, coasteering.

Biology School Trip

Plants Living things and habitats Minibeasts Habitats Relationships in an ecosystem (KS3/4)

Click to read full text Field Studies Council can offer a range of curriculum-based biology courses from KS2 to A level trips. KS2 pupils can look at a range of habitats, learning about microhabitats and how they provide the basic needs for living things. Pupils can learn to identify the different structures of plants and name a variety of common animals. There will be mini beast hunt so pupils can observe them in their microhabitats.

The centre offers a range of sessions and courses covering practical biology through fieldwork. Most sessions have short classroom sessions before and after.

Secondary courses offer students the opportunity to undertake a range of ecological investigations in a variety of inspiring habitats and complete relevant required practicals. A wide range of mathematical skills are embedded into every course, including a variety of graphical forms, or calculations such as Simpson's index of diversity.

Students may carry out an investigation into the effect of organic pollution in a freshwater ecosystem or look at energy flow and the efficiency of energy transfer within an ecosystem.

Teaching is delivered by fully trained and experienced tutors.

What size groups do we cater for?

We can cater for groups of varying size. Some courses have a minimum of 10 students. The centre can sleep 100.

On-site classroom facilities?

Yes, there are five classroom facilities with smart projectors on site with an average capacity of 20-30 depending on seating style.

Is there first aid on site?

All our field teachers are trained in first aid and group management. A qualified first aider is available at the field centre 24 hours a day.

Who are Field Studies Council?

Field Studies Council offers fieldwork and outdoor learning for groups of all ages at centres across the UK. Trips use our stunning locations to teach curriculum focused work and inspire everyone about the environment.

Our primary field trips enable you to pick and choose from a range of exciting adventure or curriculum sessions to build your own trip. Our visits will immerse primary school children in the natural world, taking in its sights, sounds and smells.

For secondary and A level groups we offer geography, biology and environmental science courses. We can tailor them to your own requirements to ensure you get the most from your visit and trips utilise our local environment to fully engage students.

Bring your subject to life in the outdoor classroom!

Fully funded two-night residentials and day courses for eligible schools and for larger groups from eligible schools at a heavily discounted rate. The school must have 30% or higher pupil premium.

We have special rates for schools in quieter months

Off-peak pricing available

Different price bands are offered throughout the year to offer value for money.Talk to our team about the best options for your group.

Teacher Checklist

Risk Assessments
Inspection Visits
Free Places for Teachers
Bursaries or Funded Places Available
Resource Packs
LOtC Quality Badge
AALA Licence
Institute of Outdoor Learning
Duke of Edinburgh Award