Beyond the classroom.
Names become places.
A student who has eaten lunch in a college dining hall thinks about university applications differently for the rest of school. This six-night journey turns Britain’s universities, cricket and theatre from names into places your students have stood in, with fewer stops held longer and every visit run as a session with a stated outcome your faculty signs off before departure.
An Oxford college day: admissions talk, undergraduate-led tour, and lunch in hall.- A second admissions conversation at Cambridge, compared directly against Oxford.
- A guided tour of Lord's, including the Ashes urn and the honours boards.
- A West End show, studied as a text the next morning rather than just applauded.
- A written personal-statement drafting session inside a working college.
Arrival & Settling In
Land in London, check in, a briefing over dinner, and an early night before the week begins.
Governance & History
The Tower of London with a worksheet on medieval statecraft, then Westminster from the outside while a guide unpacks how a bill becomes law.
Lord's & the West End
A guided tour of Lord’s, including the honours boards and the Ashes urn, followed by a West End show in the evening.
A Full Day at Oxford
Admissions talk in the morning, an undergraduate-led tour past the Bodleian’s fifteenth-century reading rooms, lunch in hall, and a personal-statement drafting session.
Cambridge & the Cam
Punting on the Cam past the Wren Library, and a second admissions conversation for contrast with Oxford.
Departure
Journals compared and discussed one last time, then the flight home from Heathrow.
Designed for the
university-bound
Grades 9–12
Pre-University Thinkers
Trustee-Ready Reporting
Optional Sport Camp Add-On
Everything you
need to know
How is student safety managed day to day?
Vetted hotels and coach operators, staff-to-student ratios put in writing before booking, two Picknic tour managers on call 24×7 for the entire journey, per-student travel and medical insurance, plus a daily WhatsApp update to parents each evening.
Do the university visits actually help with admissions?
What should parents budget beyond the journey cost?
What is the minimum group size?
Is the programme suitable for accompanying teachers?