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School Trips Training (For Organisers & Support)
This School Trips Training Course is for the person who organises a school trip or for anyone who helps out, these people may also be known as an Educational Visits Coordinator. It takes a practical look at some of the things which must be considered when planning and delivering school trips, both in the UK and abroad.
In this School Trips Training for Organisers and Support programme we take a look at some of the things that must be considered when planning and delivering school trips, both in the UK and abroad.
School Trips for Organisers and Support Staff is a programme for the person who organises the trip, or anyone who helps out on a trip, including school staff and non-school staff acting as volunteers and helpers.
It may seem that there’s a lot to think about when planning a school trip, but this programme has been written as a guide to the process. It will support any procedures and guidelines already in place in a school, and will explain how to practically manage the risks associated with leaving the classroom.
There are two programmes on School Trips. This is the second. The first programme is School Trips for Management (the people in a school who are responsible for school trips.) We recommend that the person organising a trip should do both courses.
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Key features
- Complete online in just 45 minutes
- Fully online and easily accessible format
- CPD accredited & IIRSM approved Course
- Printable certificate available upon completion
- Essential training for staff working in Schools
- Free trial of this course available
- Understand your responsibilities as an organiser or member of support staff
- Course translations readily available!
Covered in this course
The School Trips Training (For Organisers & Support) course is broken down into 4 sections.
1) Planning a School Trip
In this section we look at where you’re going, why you’re going there and how you’re going to get there – by coach, minibus or private vehicle.
2) Health and Safety on a School Trip
This section looks at the importance of safeguarding, the need for adult supervision on trips and the requirement for first aid provision. It also includes step-by-step guides for emergency procedures – for managing the scene, contacting people and for preparing a written report about an incident.
3) The Trip
Once everyone is properly prepared, the trip can finally go ahead! This section looks at keeping pupils safe whilst on the trip and getting them home safely. It looks at rules and behaviour, headcounts, rendez-vous points, badges, remote supervision and the importance of good communication between everyone on a trip.
4) Residential Trips and Trips Abroad
Finally, in this section we look at taking pupils on trips that mean staying away from home – either in the UK or abroad.
In some cases this could be the first time a pupil spends a night away from their home and family – an experience in itself! We look at preparing parents and guardians – for example - what do they need to know? We look at documentation that may be needed for a foreign visit, the rules and regulations and the increased health and safety required abroad. We also consider the implications of different languages, customs and laws when going on trips to different countries.
School Trips Training for Organisers Certificate
Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This School Trips Training for Organisers and Support course concludes with a 10 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your School Trips Training for Organisers Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Real user reviews
Based on 13 real user reviews.
Extremely long
Although this covers a vast array of information regarding school trips a lot of the information is common sense or already known to those who go on trips. The course is an hour long and could easily be condensed into a much shorter course ensuring first aid, risk assessing and general info such as insurance is covered. Or it could be split into 2 courses, one covering local trips and a second covering residential as residential (domestic or abroad) is not needed by all teaching staff.
Well done
Really helpful tool to learn
Took way too long.
This could all be accomplished far quicker and more effectively. Why are TED talks the length they are? The information is fine but why take so long to put it across and then assess. Twenty minutes is achievable and could be far more positive.
Excellent easy to use course
Very beneficial and well structured training.
Not the best
No summary provided
Easy to use
Very detailed, quite long videos, some topics could have been summarised so that they are shorter.
easy
might as well have just read it all in 2 minutes as it was all pretty common sense stuff
great video
again very productive video
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Legislations relating to School Trips
It's important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work. Take a look at relevant legislation below.
The Common Law Duty of Care and The Children Act 1989 require that teachers do all that is reasonable to protect the health, safety and welfare of pupils.
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 requires all employees to care for their own health and safety and that of others. In the case of school trips this means that teachers must take reasonable steps to protect their own health and safety, that of the pupils they accompany and also that of anyone else who may be affected by the delivery of the trip.
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires risks to be appropriately assessed and measures put in place to reduce or eliminate risks.
The Adventure Activities Licensing Regulations 2004 requires providers of certain adventure activities to be licensed.
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 holds an organisation responsible if their activities were organised or managed in such a way that this caused or contributed to the death of someone to whom they had a duty of care.