Make your classroom a world beneath the waves!
Looking for a quality school trip in Bristol? With over 40 naturally-themed displays and thousands of aquatic creatures across our geographical zones, our educational science tours offer a fun and inspirational day out for your class.
We welcome thousands of school visitors every year for educational visits, whatever the weather!
Croeso i Aquarium Bryste! Cymerwch eich cam cyntaf i’r moroedd gyda’n teithiau addysgol!
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Choose between our Educational packages
Under the Sea is a guided tour offering an introduction to a wide range of aquatic animals and geographical habitats, including coastlines, oceans, rivers, and coral reefs. We also focus on animal diets, behaviour, and ecology along the way.
The tour includes an exclusive fish feeding experience and a workshop on “Amazing Adaptations” to encourage the children to connect with the natural world.
As well as learning about our fantastic fish, in this guided tour your students will branch out (pun slightly intended) into the world of plant life and fish habitats.
Your class can explore our Urban Jungle as our tour guides dive into the subject of rainforests, photosynthesis, plant anatomy and how fish live, grow, and interact with their environment. This experience allows your students to be surrounded by different ecosystems as they learn about them, including: native UK waters, the ocean floor, the amazon river and colourful coral reefs.
We are very proud to be the only aquarium in the UK with a giant botanical house, which contains our Rocky Shores and Amazing Amazon exhibits. Here you can find our Bay of Rays and Amazon River tanks as well as a jungle of fascinating flora from coffee trees and pineapple plants to prehistoric ferns and a gigantic monstera which engulfs our Amazonian waterfall.
The tour includes an exclusive fish feeding experience and a “Rainforest Detective” workshop on “Plant Power” to encourage the children to connect with the natural world.
This tour is aimed at Key Stage 2 age students but can be adjusted for different age groups.
Save our Seas is a guided tour aiming to encourage children to connect with the natural world by observing aquatic creatures up close. The tour includes the discussion of human impacts on different marine environments, including mangrove forests, rainforests, and the open ocean. Furthermore, what conservation work is being done to protect these habitats and the species which inhabit them.
The tour includes an exclusive fish feeding experience and a workshop on “Coral Reefs and Climate Change” to encourage the children to connect with the natural world.
A typical school day at Bristol Aquarium
- Leave school at 09:00
- Arrive into Bristol City Centre at 10:00am
- Coach drop off at Explore Lane BS1 5LL
- A short walk across Millennium Square will bring you to Anchor Square and our main entrance
- Enter at 10:20am, lead teacher to arrange payment by cheque, cash or card at the admissions desk; supporting adults arranging bags and coat removal using the storage provided
- Toilet stop with hand washing
- Entry through to the displays at your booked time (e.g. 10:40am, 11:00am), you will be unable to go through until your booked time. Tours are 1 hour long or a self-guided visit is as long as you would like it to be!
- Toilet stop with hand washing
- Lunch time slot and space will be assigned to you on arrival with a reserved area marked out
- Re-entry through the displays available after your lunch until the time you need to leave
- Toilet stop with hand washing
- A short walk back to the coach pick up at Explore Lane BS1 5LL
- A safe trip back to your school
Prices
Child Off Peak: Sep-Apr – £7.95 per child
Child Peak: May-Aug -£8.50 per child
Additional Adult – £19.95 per child
Primary Guided Tour: Approx. 1hr Max. 30 children – £50.00 per tour
Carer for disabled child (1:1 only) – FREE
Free adult to child ratios – 1:4 Nursery, 1:6 Primary, 1:10 Secondary+
Additional Info
We offer free pre-visits for up to two teachers once a booking has been made and our risk assessment is available to download here.
We will give your group a space to enjoy lunch in our foyer for a set time and you’re welcome to go back around the aquarium in the afternoon at your own leisure. Why not download our free activity sheets too!
Payment for school visits
Please note, payment for school and club visits must be made in full by the day of the visit by cash, credit/debit card, cheque or invoice. Invoices must be paid 3 weeks before your trip.
Win a fossil box for your school!
Competition time!
Includes 30 fossils, lesson plans, geological maps and more!
Simply type the word FOSSIL in the message box of your booking enquiry to be in with a chance of winning a Fossil Box for your class!
Online booking enquiry form
Type the word FOSSIL in the Message box to be in with a chance of winning a Fossil Box for your class!
Note, this form is to make an enquiry, and is not a Booking Confirmation. If the trip is confirmed, we’ll send you a booking confirmation email.
(Home Educators don’t need to use this Bookings Form.)
Please use our bookings form below to book your school visit!
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