Museum and gallery visits can be some of the most enriching school trips that our students will take part in. These trips offer powerful opportunities to spark curiosity, deepen understanding and make cultural connections. But to get the most out of visits like this, it’s important to plan carefully. In this post, we’ll share our thoughts on how you can ensure your museum and gallery trips are both educationally valuable and easy to manage!
There are so many ways AI can save teachers time when organising school trips, from language translation to creating detailed packing lists. In this TripPA Tips post, we’ll explore five ways AI can help: brainstorming and comparing destinations, personalising the itinerary based on your students’ needs, and quickly suggesting some alternatives when plans need to change at short notice! Along the way, we’ll share tried-and-tested prompts, show you how to customise them for your own needs, and give you a peek at what the output could look like from some of the most popular free AI assistants available.
As busy teachers, we are always seeking to complete tasks as efficiently as possible. However, when organising school trips, this can sometimes mean that we forget to involve pupils’ families as much as we should. Engaging parents in school trips is an important part of the educational visit planning process – after all, they are often the ones paying the bill! In this TripPA Tips post, we outline why we think engaging parents and carers is beneficial for all, and provide some useful practical advice for schools and teachers.
Educational Visits provide memorable and unique experiences for our students, and teachers and chaperones generally have a great time too! However, one of the more stressful aspects for trip leads can be managing behaviour while outside of the classroom and school setting. In this TripPA Tips post, we’re sharing some hints which have served us well as teachers and trip leads on recent visits!
School trips can be expensive! This is one of the principal reasons behind the decline of educational visits here in the UK. Here at TripPA, we are frequent trip leaders and know very well the benefits of off-site activities for children, so we have laid out some useful tips for teachers to keep those school trips budget-friendly!
Schools are facing more frequent questions from parents about the use of electronic tracking devices on educational visits in recent years. There are both risks and benefits associated with the use of electronic trackers, presenting ethical implications to schools. This TripPA post considers some of the key points which schools will want to weigh up when designing school trip policy for these devices.
Happy New Year! As we move closer towards the release of the TripPA school trip management app, we’ll be sharing some key tips for running great educational visits for all ages, which we hope will be useful for EVCs and teachers alike. While the TripPA app will help to streamline all that pre-trip admin and paperwork, doing your own packing for a school trip will still often be the last thing you think about. However, it’s important to look after yourself and your own needs if you want to run a great school trip. So, to ensure you don’t end up without a key item on your next visit, read our teacher bag packing list to help you pack!
When it comes to planning school trips, keeping everything organised can be a challenge. That’s why we created the Document Manager, an essential feature of the TripPA School Trip Management App. Designed to take the hassle out of managing paperwork, it’s another way we can help you run great trips without trip-ups.
The number of school trips taking place in the UK has been declining in recent years – and it’s not for lack of enthusiasm from teachers or students. Although there are many factors feeding into this, the mountain of admin required just to submit a trip proposal isn’t helping. At TripPA, we believe no child should miss out on enriching experiences beyond the classroom because of admin overload. That’s why we’ve designed a solution to make planning trips as simple as possible for both teachers and Educational Visits Coordinators.
The most important part of any educational visit or off-site activity is the people that are on the trip! With large numbers of pupils it can quickly become cumbersome to manage all that information, and that’s where TripPA’s People Manager is here to help, ensuring you can run trips without trip-ups. This feature-packed tool, part of our School Trip Management App, simplifies every aspect of participant management.
