Isle of Wight - The Island Classroom Residential Trips at Education Destination School Trip

SEND / Additional Support Needs
Education Destination is committed to helping teachers and SENCOs provide inclusive trips for groups containing students with special requirements.

We work closely with all of our partners and venues to understand their provisions and limitations for visitors with additional needs
All our partner venues are required to provide sample Risk Assessments and all are encouraged to publish or develop comprehensive Access Statements
Whatever your particular needs, Education Destination can advise on venues and activities to suit your students.

We work in exclusive partnership with Victoria Lodge in sunny Shanklin on the Isle of Wight, specialists in hosting SEN groups of between 10 and 50 guests, including adapted ground floor bedrooms, as well as a number of other hotels, guest houses and glamping sites across the island that regularly cater for SEN guests with less demanding needs.


Ways We Can Help
We can vary activities (physical and academic) to suit
With sufficient notice we can adapt teaching resources and activities or develop specific learning programmes
Many of our resources are already differentiated by design, and supplied for various key stages which gives you a lot of inherent flexibility for mixed ability groups
We can liaise with your SENCO and all our partners to ensure we understand and are fully prepared for your additional needs students
We will work with your chosen venues to adapt service provision as required
We can provide chaperones to boost supervision ratios and help deal with challenging behaviours
We can arrange specialist transport, facilities and accommodation if needed
We will be honest with you about problems we know you will encounter

WELCOME TO EDUCATION DESTINATION - The Island Classroom

We are an Isle of Wight based company, specialising in providing BESPOKE, CURRICULUM-FOCUSED school trips to our beautiful island that are different to anything else available. We can provide a FULL DOOR-TO-DOOR SERVICE, taking care of all your ACCOMMODATION requirements, TRANSPORT and venue TICKETS or simply support you in making your own arrangements. We support the visits with an unbeatable selection of over 750 professionally developed educational resources that connect directly with National Curriculum topics to provide academic learning outside the classroom.

Why use us?

We are an ABTOT member. ABTOT cover provides for a refund in the event you have not yet travelled or repatriation if transportation was included in your package.

• We provide RISK ASSESSMENTS, detailed day-by-day guides & parent presentations.
• We can supply DOOR TO DOOR transport, including the ferry.
• The LEARNING starts on the ferry with CURRICULUM led resources available.
• We supply FREE pre-prepared, educational resources and support.
• ALL 700+ learning materials are curriculum led and key stage relevant.
• We are on hand 24/7 for support should you need ANYTHING on your visit.
• We implement our Safety Management System covering all accommodation options.
• We take away the need for expensive pre-trip visits, saving time and money
• We will assist in planning YOUR pre-trip visit if you still feel you need one
• Costs no more than booking directly, yet you can let us do all the work!

This is how we are making the Isle of Wight the foremost destination for educational school trips in the UK. The unique, ALL INCLUSIVE packages that we offer are saving teachers time and stress in the organising of trips and providing them with the chance to fit areas of the curriculum into the fun of a school trip.

Where better to study the power of steam than on a real steam engine? How better to study and identify leaves than while being hoisted up the trees that grow them?

Create MEMORABLE experiences that will stay with the students, as will the information they learn.

There is a huge swing towards this type of school trip and paired with the service we provide, this is allowing us to make EDUCATION DESTINATION the first place many schools now look at for their school trip needs.