Our team of experts can ensure the right excursions are selected to meet the desired learning outcome for your group. With a wealth of knowledge and experience, we know how landmarks, locations and museums will tie in with what is being taught in the classroom.
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What activities are available during educational visits?
London is a fantastic destination for schools with a huge variety of activities, including world famous museums, art galleries and iconic landmarks.
Popular excursions in London include:
- London Eye
- Kensington Palace
- London River Cruise
- Madame Tussauds
- KidZania
- Tower of London
- Chocolate Films Workshop
- London Hop On Hop Off Bus Tour
- West End Theatre shows
- Buckingham Palace
- Warner Bros. Harry Potter Studio Tour
Which curriculum topics do we cater for?
Art
Drawing Design Painting Multimedia
Our primary school trips to London will offer your students the best opportunity to learn about Art & Design through the ages. Whether it's seeing modern exhibitions, exploring the vast collections of London's famous galleries, or discovering the inspiring locations behind famous pieces, this trip will be sure to excite and engage your students.
Science Physics
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Our primary school STEM trips to London will offer your students the best opportunity to learn about Physics and Science Whether it's visiting famous locations across the city centre, discovering artefacts and depictions in museum collections, or touring specialist science excursions, this trip will be sure to excite and engage your students.
Twentieth Century
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Our primary school trips to London will offer your students the best opportunity to learn about the 20th century history. Whether it's visiting famous locations across the city centre, discovering artefacts and depictions in museum collections, or recounting famous stories from that period, this trip will be sure to excite and engage your students.
Victorian
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Our primary school trips to London will offer your students the best opportunity to learn about the Victorians. Whether it's visiting famous locations across the city centre, discovering artefacts and depictions in museum collections, or recounting famous stories from that period, this trip will be sure to excite and engage your students.
Elizabethans
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Our primary school trips to London will offer your students the best opportunity to learn about the Elizabethan period. Whether it's visiting famous locations across the city centre, discovering artefacts and depictions in museum collections, or recounting famous stories from that period, this trip will be sure to excite and engage your students.
English
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Story writing
Our primary school trips to London will offer your students the best opportunity to learn about the influence that London had on world-famous writers. Whether it's wandering through the urban settings found in novels, visiting Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, or understanding how London's history influenced the lives of famous writers, this trip will be sure to excite and engage your students.
Industrial
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Our primary school trips to London will offer your students the best opportunity to learn about the Industrial Revolution. Whether it's visiting famous locations across the city centre, discovering artefacts and depictions in museum collections, or recounting famous stories from that period, this trip will be sure to excite and engage your students.
Medieval
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Black Death and Medicine
Our primary school trips to London will offer your students the best opportunity to learn about the city's Medieval history. Whether it's visiting famous locations across the city centre, discovering artefacts and depictions in museum collections, or recounting famous stories from that period, this trip will be sure to excite and engage your students.
Romans
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Our Roman Legacy
Our primary school trips to London will offer your students the best opportunity to learn about the Roman conquest and how they came to claim Londinium as their own. Whether it's discovering the Roman sites that lay under much of the city, learning how they bridged the Thames, or how they built straight roads that radiated out across the country, this trip will be sure to excite and engage your students.
Saxons
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Our primary school trips to London will offer your students the best opportunity to learn about the Anglo Saxons. Whether it's visiting famous locations across the city centre, discovering artefacts and depictions in museum collections, or recounting famous stories from that period, this trip will be sure to excite and engage your students.
Tudors
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The Great Fire of London William Shakespeare Guy Fawkes Gunpowder Plot Great Plague
Our primary school trips to London will offer your students the best opportunity to learn about the Tudors and Stuarts. Whether it's visiting famous locations across the city centre, discovering artefacts and depictions in museum collections, or recounting famous stories from that period, this trip will be sure to excite and engage your students.
World War
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Our primary school trips to London will offer your students the best opportunity to learn about the World Wars. Whether it's visiting famous locations across the city centre, discovering artefacts and depictions in museum collections, or recounting famous stories from that period, this trip will be sure to excite and engage your students.
What size groups do we cater for?
We have a minimum number of 10 paying passengers but have no upper limit. We can split large groups across multiple coaches and hotels as required, and we can offer additional free supervisory places for larger groups.
Is there first aid on site?
Our health and safety policy lays out our commitment to safety when organising our operations. This is achieved in part through our supplier audits, which are regularly completed to School Travel Forum guidelines, to make sure that our transport, hotel and excursion suppliers are in line with national safety standards and are appropriately documented. We also believe the travel insurance policy we offer is one of the best available.
Groups with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)
With prior knowledge to booking, we can arrange a tour that takes into consideration any students with Special Educational Needs.
With prior knowledge to booking we can arrange a tour that takes into consideration any students with disabilities.
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Anything else?
Whether you're just looking at options or you have something specific in mind, be sure to get in touch with your dedicated Account Manager at Equity and let them know what would make your trip perfect. We'll take into account your requirements and create a trip that is bespoke to you and meets any learning objectives that you have in mind.
Who are Equity - The School Travel People?
London has so much to offer for Primary School trips with excursions and attractions that link to all subject areas. The Tower of London, the Natural History Museum, the London Eye and even the Harry Potter Studio tour are sure to engage young minds helping them to learn and discover. An easy destination to travel to, we will ensure your primary trip to London runs effortlessly whether that be for one day or for overnight stays.
Equity have been taking young people around the world since 1933, making us one of the longest running tour operators in the school travel market. We take pride in delivering an exceptional customer experience and sharing our expertise in education and travel.
Every enquiry gives you a chance to win trips and workshops for your school - We are giving away a free trip for every week of the Autumn term!
Enhancing Soft Skills on an Overseas Tour
Soft skills are important in achieving success in life. Group activities develop social skills, opportunities for wider personal development
We are bursting with school trip ideas on places that deliver first class teaching both outside the classroom and as in-school workshops. Feel free to use our tailor-made trip form and we can help you find the perfect experience for your class!