10 Reasons to Recommend NST to your School in Your LEA District

1. By organising an educational visit with NST, your schools will comply with the very latest DCSF & Scottish Executive guidelines on selecting and using school tour operators.
2. The pioneering NST Safety Management System formed the basis for the industry wide scheme. It is externally verified each year by qualified professionals. It covers amongst other things, our accommodation, transport and 24 hour emergency service.
   
3. Many of our Secondary educational travel programmes offer real, curriculum related content, not only in selecting specific visits, but in providing workshops, seminars, talks and study packs, to help teachers deliver elements of their syllabus. We work with teachers themselves to provide this.
4. Your Primary schools can arrange their visits with a specialist team of educational travel consultants who only work with Primary schools and have years of experience in organising trips for children aged 8 to 11 years.
   
5. As the UK’s largest educational tour operator, our prices are hard to beat. We’ll provide maximum value for money to give teachers the best chance of getting sufficient pupils and more participating in the visit.
6. When your schools book with NST, they get complete financial protection as NST are fully ABTA and ATOL bonded.
7. We go the extra mile for your teachers, because they have busy and sometimes stressful lives. We spend time getting the detail right and we’ll do it efficiently and courteously. For inexperienced teachers, we will guide them at every stage of planning and organising the visit, to ensure they get a high quality service and all important peace of mind!
8. We provide individual and group preview visits for teachers, so they can inspect their destinations, conduct risk assessments and better prepare for their future visit.
9. We provide additional resources including professional PowerPoint presentations and colourful posters to help your teachers promote their trips and communicate to parents.
10. And finally, over 4,500 educational groups already travel with us and we’re getting more each and every year because teachers recommend NST to other teachers.

“NST Travel Group operate a Safety Management System, which fully meets the standards needed for LEAs or governing bodies to be assured of proper arrangements.”
‘Off-Site Educational Visits’ Feb 2003, NAHT