School Trips and Visits in Dorset

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Where to visit on a school trip in Dorset?

Dorset offers a good selection of engaging and educational school trips and workshops. Learn outside the classroom with a variety of fascinating interactive adventures. Bring your classroom topics to life at one of the following venues.

Explore the wonders of marine life at the Sea Life Centre in Weymouth, where your students can get close to everything from tropical fish to sharks and big sea turtles! For outdoor adventures and team-building, the Andrew Simpson Centre in Portland offers beginner sailing courses, and a whole host of other fun watersports. Along the world famous Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, pupils can learn about millions of years of the Earth's history as they hunt for fossils, and discover geology and palaeontology activities. Cumulus Outdoors runs lots of activity based trips in the Dorset countryside, covering bushcraft skills, orienteering challenges, and overnight camps that will build children's resilience in the outdoors.

From science and geography to history and physical education, Dorset's many school trip venues offer experiences for every class. Take a look below or let us know what you are looking for.

Want to know where to take your school group in Dorset? Here are some fun educational trips from venues such as Your Dorset Adventure Awaits!, Dorset - The Jurassic Coast, Land & Wave Adventure School Trips in Dorset, Portland Outdoor Centre, Outdoor & Adventure School Residential Trips, and more.

Able to travel to other counties in South West, have a look at our trip pages for: Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, for more school trip ideas.

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Discover the Jurassic Coast for Primary and Middle Schools - Curriculum Travel

location icon School Trip South West
apple icon Subjects: Archaeology, Geology, Wildlife, SEN


The Jurassic Coast spans between East Devon and Purbeck with amazing places to visit including Durdle Door, Lulworth Cove, Weymouth, Portland, Lyme Regis, Chesil Beach, Charmouth and Sidmouth.

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Cumulus Outdoors Curriculum Day Trips
Cumulus Outdoors Curriculum Day Trips
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Dorset

In today's world, environmental awareness is an essential topic to help children understand the environments they live in and how these are affected by the actions of the human race. Improve your...
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Discover the Jurassic Coast for Primary and Middle Schools - Curriculum Travel
Discover the Jurassic Coast for Primary and Middle Schools - Curriculum Travel
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Beavers have made a remarkable return to Dorset, enriching the region's biodiversity and offering a unique opportunity for wildlife enthusiasts and researchers alike. Dorset boasts a diverse array of...
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Residential Trips Dorset

Planning an overnight trip for your school or looking for a tailored educational residential programme? Your students can benefit from an activity week in Dorset or its neighbouring counties. Discover exciting school residential learning experiences that promote teamwork, and outdoor education.

Cumulus Outdoors Residential Centre - Swanage
Cumulus Outdoors Residential Centre - Swanage
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Dorset

Explore different habitats and visit sites around the Isle of Purbeck to learn about wildlife; Kimmeridge Bay for zonation, rockpools, fossils and rocks, Studland for habitats, succession and beach...
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Outdoor & Adventure School Residential Trips
Outdoor & Adventure School Residential Trips
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Dorset

With over 96 acres at our disposal, we incorporate physical education throughout your stay, including evening entertainments such as organised criekt and football and field games.
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Land & Wave Adventure School Trips in Dorset
Land & Wave Adventure School Trips in Dorset
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Dorset

We offer Outdoor Instructor Training for ages 16+. We work with careers advisors to provide engaging Career Development Days to show how exciting and rewarding a career in the outdoors can really be....
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Watersports Residential Trips
Watersports Residential Trips
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Dorset

All our activities promote a healthy lifestyle, from the food we serve to the activities we engage them in. As well as the listed activities, in the evenings we run games from Ultimate Frisbee to Volleyball.
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Cumulus Outdoors Tented Village - Corfe Castle
Cumulus Outdoors Tented Village - Corfe Castle
map pin Corfe Castle BH19 2PX
Dorset

We use team challenges, our ethos of 'challenge by choice' and leadership skills in all of our physical activities. The activities can be physically challenging but all students are supported and...
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Your Dorset Adventure Awaits!
Your Dorset Adventure Awaits!
map pin Ventnor PO38 3LT
Dorset

We arrange 100% bespoke adventure-based residentials to Dorset and the Jurassic Coast. We can include transport, accommodation, activities, risk assessments and much more, saving you time and stress! Leave the work to us so you can focus on teaching!
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Dorset - The Jurassic Coast
Dorset - The Jurassic Coast
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Dorset

Discover the Jurassic Coast: an outdoor classroom brimming with adventure! Uncover millions of years of history, explore stunning cliffs, and engage in hands-on learning. Inspire your students with unforgettable experiences and create lasting memorie
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Portland Outdoor Centre
Portland Outdoor Centre
map pin Portland DT5 1HB
Dorset

Possibly the prime location on the Jurassic Coast to reach the Dorset locations often visited by field studies groups. - Chesil Beach - Portland Bill - Lulworth and Durdle Door
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Cheddar Gorge
Cheddar Gorge
map pin Cheddar BS27 3QF
Somerset

Explore Cheddar Gorge, a National Nature Reserve and world famous beauty spot where pupils can learn about its Ice Age creation, Stone Age occupation and Victorian exploration
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SEND Inclusive Isle of Wight Residentials with Education Destination
SEND Inclusive Isle of Wight Residentials with Education Destination
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Isle of Wight

Education Destination is committed to helping teachers and SENCOs provide inclusive trips for groups containing students with special requirements. We have exclusively partnered with Victoria Lodge to offer specialist SEND-friendly accommodation.
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YMCA Fairthorne Manor
YMCA Fairthorne Manor
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Hampshire

Our immersive outdoor Bushcraft sessions and challenges focus on teaching students survival skills. Bushcraft sessions at Fairthorne can cover den building, fire lighting, camouflage and tracking, and...
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Braeside Residential Adventure Centre
Braeside Residential Adventure Centre
map pin Devizes SN10 2AP
Wiltshire

Roundway Down History Walk: A full days walking with a morning focusing on map & compass work and the afternoon looking at the historic ‘Mother Anthony’s Well’. & 'Oliver's Castle' - the site...
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At-Bristol
At-Bristol
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In our Pirate Code workshops your students will use Coding, Programming, Debugging and Logic to work through our Pirate Robot Games. We also have dancing parrots and pirate outfits to top it off
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Your Isle of Wight Adventure Awaits! with Education Destination
Your Isle of Wight Adventure Awaits! with Education Destination
map pin Ventnor PO38 3LT
Isle of Wight

We offer 100% bespoke adventure based residentials to the Isle of Wight. We can include transport, accommodation, activities, risk assessments and much more, saving you time and stress! Leave the work to us so you can focus on teaching!
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Isle of Wight - The Island Classroom with Education Destination
Isle of Wight - The Island Classroom with Education Destination
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Isle of Wight

Biology of Animals Our Island features many attractions suited to learning more about all kinds of animals. At the Isle of Wight Donkey Sanctuary for example, KS1 students can learn about the...
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New Forest Activities
New Forest Activities
map pin Lyndhurst SO43 7HF
Hampshire

As well as offering a wide variety of fun and inclusive challenges, New Forest Activities can provide students with lots of opportunities to learn skills, realise their own limits and how to support...
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Glastonbury Abbey
Glastonbury Abbey
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Welcome to Glastonbury Abbesy, once the grandest and richest Abbey in England. A great Glastonbury experience awaits you here!
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UKSA
UKSA
map pin Cowes PO31 7PQ
Isle of Wight

Our aim is to encourage, support, and inspire young people by introducing them to the challenges, enjoyment, and rewards of watersports. We are based on the water’s edge, facing the navigable River...
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Dorset School Workshops

Is your school located in Dorset? A huge range of workshop providers can bring the learning experience to you! Allow your students to benefit from specialist knowledge about your class subject or topic..

Voulez-Vous
Voulez-Vous
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A fun, interactive, and fully-immersive French-language theatre show for schools!
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Chocolate Collective
Chocolate Collective
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Chocolate Collective facilitate chocolate workshops that are a fantastic introduction into the world of chocolate. Our tailored, interactive workshops inspire pupils and teach them new skills either as an after-school activity or as part of a Nation
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Theatre Workout Education
Theatre Workout Education
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Theatre Workout is one of the UK's leading drama and theatre workshop providers. We deliver bespoke West End Workshops, Outreach Workshops in schools across the UK, and offering weekly classes and clubs in London schools.
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Stone Age Workshops
Stone Age Workshops
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Our Stone Age programme is a great way to introduce the Stone Age topic. We offer a unique interactive 'show and tell' to really bring the subject alive and pass around the tools and clothes of the past. Touch, taste and smell the Stone Age.
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In School Workshops

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