Open water, one of the systems an environmental programme measures.
Environmental studies

A river is a diagram until you stand in one.

Water, waste, forest and climate, studied in the place where the subject is not theoretical.

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Group designing travel since2009
Travellers served by the group800,000+
What this is

Environmental studies tours for schools

Environmental studies is the one subject where the classroom is the weakest possible venue. A catchment, a landfill, a mangrove or a village that grew a bridge out of a tree does in three days what a term of diagrams does not.

Each tour is built backwards from one question the group is going to answer, and the itinerary exists to make answering it possible. Sampling kit, permissions to enter a site, and someone who actually works there to talk to, are arranged before the dates are confirmed, not hoped for on the day.

Environmental scienceGeographyBiologyChemistryIB ESSClasses 8 to 12
What we handle
  • One question, answered The group arrives with a question and leaves with data, not with a folder of brochures.
  • A written safety protocol, published in full and applied without exception.
  • Headcount discipline at every transition, recorded rather than remembered.
  • A costed plan showing the logistics, before the school commits.
  • One coordinator, reachable at any hour, travelling with the group.
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What students come back with

Not photographs. Method.

Four things this programme is designed to leave behind. If it cannot deliver them, it is the wrong programme and we say so.

01One question, answeredThe group arrives with a question and leaves with data, not with a folder of brochures.
02Measurement in the fieldWater quality, air, canopy, waste streams. Simple instruments, used properly, recorded properly.
03People, not just systemsA farmer, a municipal engineer, a forest guard. Students hear the constraint before they propose the solution.
04A defensible write-upMethod, results, limitations. Structured so it stands up to a teacher marking it.
A living root bridge over a stream at Mawlynnong in Meghalaya.
Tea and spice country in Wayanad, on the Malabar side of the ghats.
Mist moving through standing forest at first light.
The shape of it

How the days are built.

A shape, not a schedule. Yours is built around your dates, your year group and what the trip has to achieve.

Day 1Frame the questionSite orientation, the brief, safety and kit, and the first walk before any measuring
Middle daysCollectTwo or three sites, each sampled properly, with the day’s data consolidated before dinner
One sessionMeet the constraintTime with someone whose job is the problem, so the answers get harder and better
Last dayConcludeAnalysis, group presentation, and an honest list of what the data cannot tell you

Length, region and season are set against your academic calendar and your budget. No prices are published because a school group is costed against its own headcount, dates and inclusions, never against a brochure rate.

Before anything else

A school buys supervision before it buys a destination.

Every programme on this site runs to the same written protocol. It is published in full, because a teacher who is personally accountable should not have to take it on trust.

  • A named supervision ratio for this activity and this year group, in the proposal.
  • Headcounts at every transition, recorded against a written list.
  • Certified instructors and their own equipment, or the activity is removed.
  • An evacuation route and named facility written for every night.
Plan this programme

Tell us the year group. We will call you back.

Two minutes to send, and a coordinator calls the school back. No prices are quoted until we know the headcount, the dates and what the trip has to achieve.

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  • A costed plan, not a brochure
  • Your dates and your year group
  • One coordinator throughout
  • The safety protocol in writing
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