WWI Battlefield Trips for Schools
WWI battlefield trips offer students the opportunity to experience the surreal settings of wartime conflict. Your history students will benefit from first-hand details of what life was like in combat, with a range of different school trips to First World War battlefields and some of the most historic sites from the Great War.
We'll help you to plan the ultimate WWI battlefield trip for your history group. Our team can provide assistance with booking travel, and tours, delivering educational materials and more. This ensures you have everything you need for an enriching and fun learning experience.
Locations of NSTs World War 1 Battlefield trips
Our WWI battlefield trips span many locations, offering history students on a school trip to Belgium the opportunity to explore a selection of symbolic sites from the First World War. These include:
- In Flanders Fields Museum
- Menin Gate & the Last Post Ceremony
- Sanctuary Wood Museum & Hill 62
- Passchendaele Memorial Museum
- Hooge Crater Museum and Trenches Experience
- Ypres Walking Tours
- The Somme Battlefield trip
Why book a WWI battlefield school trip?
Our WWI battlefield trips cover the events of the war in considerable historical detail, particularly in the Ypres Salient and Somme regions. First-hand experiences of this historical landscape will help your students appreciate the history of the First World War, helping them to understand the significance of what took place.
Teachers can benefit from school trips to First World War battlefields too. Students who embark on our battlefield trips take lots of educational value and invaluable experiences that simply can’t be replicated in the classroom.
The benefits of booking WWI Battlefield Trips with NST
When you book a battlefield trip with NST, you’ll benefit from the following features:
- Access to NST’s Château d’Ebblinghem - NST’s exclusive school group accommodation on the Opal Coast in Northern France is ideally located for WWI Battlefield trips to French Battlefields and will make your role as group leader that bit easier!
- Subject Experts - All of our Subject Experts are professional academics, historians and writers with incomparable knowledge of their subject area. They have the ability to communicate their learning in a way that will enlighten and stimulate your pupils whilst on a battlefield trip.
- ABTA & ATOL protection - This provides you with financial security and peace of mind that you're protected no matter what.
Get in touch with NST today for more information and advice on planning your ideal WWI battlefield school trip, or take a look at some of our most popular options below.
Browse our most popular WWI Battlefield school trips
Why choose NST?
Here's why thousands of teachers choose NST each year...
- Unrivalled school trip knowledge
Your dedicated Tour Co-ordinator will use their trip planning knowledge and expertise to create a tailor-made, curriculum-linked itinerary to meet your group’s exact needs.
- Making it easier for you
Your own trip organiser, travel app, free classroom packs and trip promo resources.
- Free group leader inspection visits
Visit your chosen destination free of charge and plan with confidence.
- Value for money, always
We work hard to make every penny count.
- Over 55 years’ experience
With NST you can rest assured that your group is in safe hands.
- Aligned to your learning outcomes
Every trip can be built around your specific goals — from the latest GCSE and A level curriculum requirements to particular themes, interests or visits you want to focus on.
- Risk assessment guidance
Clear, practical support to help you manage group safety including our free guide.
- Offsetting carbon emissions
Through our partnership with Carbon Footprint, we're committed to offset one tonne of CO2 emissions, and plant a tree on school grounds in the UK, for every trip booked.
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Explore the WWI Battlefields with our history subject experts
We offer the chance to take one of our history Subject Experts on your battlefields trip.
Our Subject Experts are former teachers with detailed knowledge of the current curriculum. They are selected to meet your exact tour requirements, helping your group to get even more from their time outside the classroom. Our Subject Experts are passionate about their subject areas, meaning they're well prepared to meet your group's needs.
