This is one trip we built for one school. Everything below (destination, duration, balance of activities) was set by their brief, and yours would produce something different. It is here to show the shape of a proposal.
Normandy is the destination teachers ask us for most often, and the one most easily done badly: five cemeteries in three days leaves pupils numb rather than moved. This itinerary was built with a history department that wanted the opposite, fewer sites, more time at each, and space to process them.
The documentary workshop is what makes it work. Pupils spend the week gathering material, then edit a short film in teams. They stop being visitors and become people with a question to answer.
A sample day, day three
The central day: the landing beaches in the morning, the cemetery in the afternoon, and the evening to make sense of both.
✏️ An example timetable, the destination, programme, duration and budget all move to suit your group.
What the group actually does
Guided battlefield visits
Omaha, Pointe du Hoc, Arromanches and the Mulberry harbour, with an English-speaking battlefield guide rather than an audio handset.
Documentary workshop
Teams gather footage and interviews across the week, then edit a five-minute film. Equipment and an editing session are included; the films come home with the group.
Reflection evening
A structured session, led by your staff with our materials, on what the week has actually shown. The part teachers tell us the pupils remember.
Museum sessions
The Caen Memorial and the Arromanches 360 cinema, each with a worksheet pitched at the year group rather than a generic quiz.
Curriculum links
What this itinerary supports in the classroom, before and after the trip.
In pictures
Frequently asked questions
Both, but not identically. For P6 we shorten the cemetery visit, pitch the workshop at storytelling rather than analysis, and brief guides accordingly. Tell us the year group and we adjust the week.
The documentary films the teams edit during the week, plus the photographs. Several schools screen them at an assembly or a parents' evening.
Yes. Juno, Sword and Gold, the Pegasus Bridge and the Bayeux war cemetery all fit. Schools often choose the sector matching their own country's history, say which in the brief.