Teaching Resources for Holocaust Memorial Day 2023
The 27th January marks Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 and we've put together useful teaching resources for you to explore.
Venturing onto the Battlefields with a guide: Impactful, thought-provoking and memorable
'We learned, we changed, and we challenged our own existing thoughts.' History Tour Guides give so much to your tour. Here's a sneak peek into our experience.
WW1 History Trips to the Western Front
Bring WW1 History to Life The Western Front was a stretch of land over 400 miles long that left a scar across France and Belgium from the Swiss border to the North Sea, was the decisive battle...
‘Moving the classroom to the trenches’
Rewind two years and Brighton Hill Community School embarked on their truly memorable history trip to the Belgian battlefields. Accompanied by two Rayburn History Tour Guides, Trevor and Richard,...
International School Travel is Back!
After pressing pause on international school trips, today is a long-awaited day. The Department for Education has given the much anticipated go ahead for schools to take students abroad. Cue cheers...
New digital school trip brochures have landed
If there was ever a time to do things a little differently, now is it. That’s why we’re delighted to bring you our brand new digital school trip brochures. Not only are digital brochures greener...
Travel experiences that students will need and deserve
Educational travel – experiences that students will need and deserve… The benefits of traveling on an international school trip with students have long been reported on. The enhancement of in...
Remembrance Day 2020: why it’s more relevant than ever this year
“The first stroke of eleven produced a magical effect. “The tram cars glided into stillness, motors ceased to cough and fume, and stopped dead, and the mighty-limbed dray horses hunched back...
Our new UK trips have landed! (Because staying local is the new going abroad)
UK trips aren’t anything new to us – we’ve been offering them for years alongside all of our international destinations! But because we know some groups aren’t quite ready to start thinking...
The resilience of our children in unprecedented times
On the 20th March 2020, I sat penning this article as our world entered a period of unprecedented change, as the COVID-19 virus threatened to interrupt all areas of our day to day lives. Even now,...
Hey teachers, take a look at these history resources we have found for you!
We have taken some time out to support teachers in more ways by collating some valuable online history teaching resources. As well as going above and beyond to find the best resources online, we...
Interesting facts about the Menin Gate & Last Post Ceremony
Dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who lost their lives during the First World War, the Menin Gate is an important memorial and for many school groups visiting Belgium, the Last Post...