How about a school trip to New Zealand?

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How about a school trip to New Zealand? It's different, dramatic, safe, excellent value and a perfect choice for an educational experience in every respect, whether you’re looking for a curriculum-based geography field trip or science field trip, sports tour or music tour, sight-seeing, cultural exchange and adventure or a mixture.

You'll need help with local knowledge: the educational opportunities, the best destinations and activities for your students? Where should you stay? How do you make local school contacts? How can you ensure your students will be safe?

You've come to just the right people! We've been doing this for years and focusing on secondary students in particular. Our teacher-facilitators will work with you to plan an itinerary, then we'll save you heaps of time, uncertainty and hassle by making all bookings and providing all the paperwork. Then we'll collect you from the airport and give you the experience of a lifetime!

Start things off now by looking at some sample itineraries and trip modules. Then contact us with your needs and desires .

Learning Journeys has years of experience in planning and running school expeditions. Give us your needs and desires. Whether you’re looking for a curriculum-based geography field trip or science field trip, sports tour or music tour, sight-seeing and adventure or a mixture, we’ll work with you to tailor your itinerary.

School curriculum linked tours

Perhaps you’re looking for a single theme field trip: GCSE or GCE Geography, A Level Biology, New South Wales HSC Earth and Environmental Science? What about VCE Chemistry or something cross-curricular? We can support all activities with workbooks and worksheets or be as subtle as you like with the educational components of your trip.

Tailored tour itineraries

What would you like to do? Visit a geothermal park to be spell-bound by geysers, mud-pools and hot springs AND do chemistry on them too? Walk on a glacier AND collecti data on the plant succession at its retreating margins? Survey wave cut platforms and the wildlife on them AND snorkel to see what's below the low tide mark?

Hands-on, interactive experiences

Our educational tours are not just about facts and skills. Their New Zealand experience with us will touch your students at many levels, opening their minds to new environmental and cultural issues. They’ll understand there’s more than one perspective to every event, that every place is defined by a unique blend of culture, environment and history and return home with new eyes for their "own place". They’ll see nature at its most beautiful and intriguing and learn to value it as a resource to support their physical, mental and spiritual well-being.

Experienced teacher faciliators

You’ll find our experienced teacher-facilitators understand just how to balance hands-on activity with discussion, recreation with adventure, structure with variety. Above all, we understand that learning must be fun!

New Zealand is incredibly well set up for educational tours. There’s a country wide network of well-maintained, clean youth hostels with bunk-room and en suite accommodation. Spacious kitchen facilities allow you to do your own catering if you don't want us to do it for you.

Safety is our priority

It's so easy and safe to tour New Zealand. Distances are relatively short, roads are well maintained and the standard of driving is high. The climate is temperate and there are no dangerous animals.

Safety is a priority for us. We have a comprehensive health and safety plan supported by RAMS forms for specific activities and the suppliers we use for specialist activities must have the same. Where possible we choose Qualmark accredited operators like ourselves.

We’ll collect you at the airport by coach and take you all over New Zealand, unless you’d rather stick to one island.