Field Studies Council - London field sites School Trip
London Greater London SE3 7AP
Latest News: 3rd February 2026
Forest school leader webinar
Join our free Q&A on Forest School Leader training led by Field Studies Council experts. Our Forest School training courses are accredited and allow you to achieve a nationally recognised qualification. Register today for the chance to ask any questions you would like answered, and receive a 10% off code for our Forest School Leader courses, if booked before 12th February 2026.
We operate in and around London from interesting and inspiring environments, all within easy reach of public transport at excellent field sites.
Build your perfect outdoor learning trip with us!
Using activities in the natural environment we support personal development and highlight the many benefits of spending time outdoors.
Programmes can be tailored to your exam board specifications covering the relevant content you require.
Our 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. With carefully tailored, age-appropriate activities, every child is supported to grow their knowledge and learn in new and exciting ways.
All our day centres will provide you with:
· A qualified tutor to oversee your trip
· Pre-trip planning including itinerary, kit lists, and risk assessments
· We hold Learning Outside the Classroom's Quality Badge so there is less paperwork for you
Different price bands are offered throughout the year to offer value for money.
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.
We work 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 fieldwork in the curriculum.
Forest school leader webinar
Join our free Q&A on Forest School Leader training led by Field Studies Council experts. Our Forest School training courses are accredited and allow you to achieve a nationally recognised qualification. Register today for the chance to ask any questions you would like answered, and receive a 10% off code for our Forest School Leader courses, if booked before 12th February 2026.
We operate in and around London from interesting and inspiring environments, all within easy reach of public transport at excellent field sites.Build your perfect outdoor learning trip with us!
Using activities in the natural environment we support personal development and highlight the many benefits of spending time outdoors.
Programmes can be tailored to your exam board specifications covering the relevant content you require.
Our 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. With carefully tailored, age-appropriate activities, every child is supported to grow their knowledge and learn in new and exciting ways.
All our day centres will provide you with:
· A qualified tutor to oversee your trip
· Pre-trip planning including itinerary, kit lists, and risk assessments
· We hold Learning Outside the Classroom's Quality Badge so there is less paperwork for you
Different price bands are offered throughout the year to offer value for money.
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.
We work 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 fieldwork in the curriculum.
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.
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Risk Assessments Free Places for Teachers Bursaries or Funded Places Available LOtC Quality Badge AALA Licence Duke of Edinburgh Award
What activities are available during educational visits?
FIeld Studies Council provides a huge range of sessions and programmes for schools depending on the age group, subject and location.
There are a wide range of activities available such as:
Primary: minibeast hunt, pond dipping, eco-activity, bushcraft, orienteering
Secondary/A level: geography independent investigations, urban geography study, biology core practicals.
Find out more on our website or by contacting us.
There are a wide range of activities available such as:
Primary: minibeast hunt, pond dipping, eco-activity, bushcraft, orienteering
Secondary/A level: geography independent investigations, urban geography study, biology core practicals.
Find out more on our website or by contacting us.
Which curriculum topics do we cater for?
Wildlife School Trip
Click to read full text 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.
Discover what animals and plants can be found in the local area. Pupils have the opportunity to identify a range of plants and invertebrates and investigate how they interact with each other.
Understand that plants play an important role in the survival of animals by looking at simple food chains/webs. They will investigate how living things are adapted to the environment they live in and how their habitats help them to survive. Investigate the structure of a plant and discover their roles. Classify a variety of invertebrates using their features and investigate how they are adapted to their habitat.
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. A day filled with team building, navigation skills and problem solving activities.
We offer a range of sessions and courses on bushcraft including den building, fire-lighting foraging and more, delivered by fully trained and experienced tutors.
Biology School Trip
Plants Living things and habitats Ecology and environment Life Cycles Minibeasts Habitats Underwater Animals and Habitats Animals including humans Relationships in an ecosystem (KS3/4)
Click to read full text We can offer a range of biology courses from KS2 to curriculum-based A level trips.
Our expert tutors create and deliver biology experiences to suit your requirements.
The biology fieldwork courses at our centres are tailored to A Level, IB, GCSE, National and Higher specifications with relevant syllabus content and practicals.
Students undertake ecological investigations in a variety of inspiring habitats and complete relevant required practicals, from a range of a range of topics. This can include:
Current ecological 'hot topics' and synoptic links are introduced, and students are challenged to question the world around them.
Biodiversity sessions, comparing two habitats, calculating species diversity and investigate variation.
Ecological Energetics investigations will looking at energy flow and the efficiency of energy transfer within an ecosystem, either in freshwater or on the rocky shore, depending on the centre.
We also offer contextualised learning opportunities for KS3 science, where pupils explore a local environment, habitat or ecosystem, eg rocky shore, freshwater or woodland.
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 through a mini beast hunt or pond dipping sessions and observe them in their microhabitats.
Human Geography School Trip
Settlement and land use Economic activity and trade Natural resources 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 Environment Fieldwork
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 visits to give an idea of what we can offer, Include;:
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
Sustainable living Climate change Conservation Materials and recycling
Click to read full text 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
Towns and Cities Mapping Sampling and Statistics Ecosystems Mapping Ecosystems Ecosystems
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.
What size groups do we cater for?
Our minimum group size is usually 10. Please contact us for secondary fieldwork courses for small group courses of less than 10 students.
On-site classroom facilities?
There is a range of classroom, workshop and laboratory spaces at each Centre.
Is there first aid on site?
Yes, all field teachers are trained in first aid and group management. A qualified first aider is available at the field centre 24 hours a day.
Access for visitors with disabilities
Some centres have purpose-built accessible rooms.
Visitors with Special Educational Needs (SEN)
Courses can be tailored to different needs. Please submit an enquiry for more information.
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.
Our Reviews from Schools..
★★★★★
We recently spent a few days with the Field Studies Council in Epping Forest. Our KS2 children were able to build upon their classroom topics in geography and science. The activities were great but the thing we noticed most, was how passionate, knowledgeable and enthusiastic the staff were. A real credit to you.
KingsWe 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 Free Places for Teachers Bursaries or Funded Places Available LOtC Quality Badge AALA Licence Duke of Edinburgh Award
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