East Midlands

School Trips

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Learning outside the classroom in the East Midlands

Discover some exciting and unique school trip destinations in the East Midlands. From a historical perspective: find out more about life in the Stone Age, or for people of the Iron Age Corieltauvi tribe who lived in the area before the Romans; about King Richard III and his final resting place beneath a car park in Leicester; visit the site of the Battle of Bosworth Field; study the roots of the Industrial Revolution that help shape the East Midlands into the place it is today; or discover the history of a Victorian Water Pumping Station.

Whether you are looking for fieldwork locations to study Physical Geography, Science Centres for practical hands on learning in Chemistry, Physics or Biology, places to teach Citizenship or any other National Curriculum topic you can think of - we can help you find an educational trip in the East Midlands suitable for your school groups learning objectives.

See our pages for Derbyshire and Leicestershire.

popular in March 2020 !

Vikings and Saxons

We offer exciting, immersive and inspiring Viking & Saxon workshops for schools, presented by a charismatic team of “performing historians” with a deep-rooted passion for their subject.

Why choose Portals to the Past? We are not just “teachers that get dressed up”. Our multi-talented re-enactors are specialists in their field; true historians with a genuine passion for the past. The Portals team takes great delight in sharing their knowledge and their enjoyment of history with a whole new generation of history buffs. As seen on film and Our Time Travellers are very much in demand for their depth of knowledge and enthusiasm for their subject. They regularly take part in historical re-enactments, and have appeared in many films, historical documentaries and on the BBC’s “Horrible Histories”. ...